Il 27/08/2014 14:16, Pavel Dovgaluk ha scritto: >> > Can you use a vm_change_state_handler, or a QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL timer >> > with expiration time in the past (e.g. at time zero) to run the sync >> > code as soon as possible? Then you can preserve the current migration >> > format and avoid using the invalid APIC state. > Does this method guarantee, that nobody (like other timers) will access > APIC between loading the vmstate and invocation of the timer?
Hmm, probably not. The bug would not be other timers accessing the APIC, because that would also call apic_sync_vapic and the only effect would be an extra useless synchronization. The bug would happen if the APIC is accessed by the CPU before the timer has the occasion to run. However, a vm_change_state_handler should work. It runs before VCPUs are started. Paolo
