The first two patches remove most uses of cpu_exit outside the CPU loop. The third patch converts qemu_cpu_kick to do memory accesses from the iothread instead of using a signal.
Paolo Paolo Bonzini (3): i8257: rewrite DMA_schedule to avoid hooking into the CPU loop i8257: remove cpu_request_exit irq tcg: signal-free qemu_cpu_kick cpu-exec.c | 18 ++++------ cpus.c | 91 ++++++++++++++----------------------------------- gdbstub.c | 2 +- hw/block/fdc.c | 2 +- hw/dma/i82374.c | 5 +-- hw/dma/i8257.c | 31 +++++++++-------- hw/i386/pc.c | 13 +------ hw/isa/i82378.c | 3 +- hw/mips/mips_fulong2e.c | 13 +------ hw/mips/mips_jazz.c | 13 +------ hw/mips/mips_malta.c | 13 +------ hw/ppc/prep.c | 11 ------ hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c | 2 +- hw/sparc/sun4m.c | 4 +-- hw/sparc64/sun4u.c | 4 +-- include/hw/isa/isa.h | 4 +-- qom/cpu.c | 2 ++ 17 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-) -- 2.4.3
