On 01/27/2011 04:33 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
Found by Stefan Hajnoczi: There is a race in kvm_cpu_exec between
checking for exit_request on vcpu entry and timer signals arriving
before KVM starts to catch them. Plug it by blocking both timer related
signals also on !CONFIG_IOTHREAD and process those via signalfd.

As this fix depends on real signalfd support (otherwise the timer
signals only kick the compat helper thread, and the main thread hangs),
we need to detect the invalid constellation and abort configure.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka<jan.kis...@siemens.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi<stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

I don't want to invest that much into !IOTHREAD anymore, so let's see if
the proposed catch&abort is acceptable.


I don't understand the dependency on signalfd. The normal way of doing things, either waiting for the signal in sigtimedwait() or in ioctl(KVM_RUN), works with SIGALRM just fine.

--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

--
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

Reply via email to