[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] char: Flush read buffer in mux_chr_can_read

[Jan Kiszka]

Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 14.05.2010, at 18:17, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> Now that I can finally reproduce the bug with --enable-io-thread, I can 
>>> verify that it does *not* fix the issue.
>> I do not trust your tests. :p
>>
>> I just tried to reproduce with --enable-io-thread and the setup I
>> described above - all still fine here. Can you reproduce with an x86 guest?
> 
> Nope, it works fine with an x86 guest. I put the following in /etc/inittab of 
> my guest:
> 
> 11:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear /dev/hvc0 linux
> 
> One major thing to keep in mind when talking about s390 guests is that we 
> almost never trap into userspace.

Do you have the same problem when using an unbuffered backend, e.g. pty?
Maybe that single-byte "fifo" of stdio makes the difference, though I
wonder why only on s390 (guest exists should not block the polling done
by the io-thread, just accelerate it).

Jan

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