On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:32:04AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Glauber Costa wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:01:00AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> Glauber Costa wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:35:47PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>>> Glauber Costa wrote:
> >>>>> This is not kvm specific, and should do fine in plain qemu
> >>>> This is fine with plain qemu already. The problem, IIUC, is that
> >>>> in-kernel kvm irqchip does not have a chance to remove the halted state
> >>>> again. Did you test the effect of this patch on that scenario? What
> >>>> makes it safe to be removed now?
> >>> IIRC, the in kernel irqchip sets halted = 0 in the very beginning of
> >>> the vcpu initialization.
> >>>
> >>> It is tested here with in-kernel irqchip and works, so probably not
> >>> a problem, unless you can spot something.
> >> At least your patch applied alone breaks -smp >1 here.
> >>
> >> But the whole management of env->halted for the in-kernel irqchip in
> >> qemu-kvm is a bit hacky IMHO. Maybe it's time to rethink this. Would be
> >> nice to always see a consistent halted in user space, specifically for
> >> debugging purposes.
> > out of curiosity: did you apply the whole series?
> 
> Meanwhile I did, but it makes no difference.
Jan, can you be more specific on why it breaks? I'm double trying it
here, and it works for me just fine.


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