On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:26:19AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:45:52PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > >> From: Yaniv Kamay <ya...@qumranet.com> > >> > >> Stop cpus before devices when stopping the VM, start cpus after devices > >> when starting VM. > >> > >> > > > > Why is this needed? > > A vcpu could access a stopped device otherwise.
Actually on vm_stop its safe because the order happens to be correct, but on vm_start its the other way around (vcpus start first, and they should be started last). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
