On 2011-10-26 18:27, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 26.10.2011 18:02, schrieb Jan Kiszka: >> On 2011-10-26 17:18, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> On 26 October 2011 16:13, Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> wrote: >>>> My point is that it is fine to use for per-vcpu variables because: >>>> - they are single-threaded in TCG mode >>>> - they are multi-threaded in KVM mode, but that's only affecting Linux >>>> hosts for which this TLS wrapper is already usable >>> >>> Oh, I see. Feel free to suggest reworded comment text :-) >> >> /* Dummy implementations -- we can get away with this because >> * - we confine the use to per-VCPU variables >> * - only linux-user supports multiple VCPU threads >> * - TCG system mode is single-threaded regarding VCPUs > >> * - KVM system mode is multi-threaded but limited to Linux > > There was a port of KVM to illumos-derived SmartOS. But I don't see an > easy way to error out on non-Linux KVM hosts without breaking TCG, too.
And I would be surprised to see them running with zero QEMU patches. So they are not upstream, thus slightly outside our radar. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
