Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] coroutine: drop GThread coroutine backend

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 04:41:41PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The GThread coroutine backend was a portable coroutine implementation.
> > Over the years all platforms got their own optimized coroutine
> > implementations and nothing uses the GThread backend anymore.
> >
> > In fact, ./configure mentions the GThread backend doesn't work but might
> > be useful for debugging.  Since GDB macros were added to ease debugging
> > of ucontext coroutines, there seems little point in keeping a broken
> > backend around.
> 
> Except I found that I couldn't run the ThreadSanitizer without using the
> gthread co-routines. So while I totally agree we should dump stuff
> that's not used lets make sure no one else relies on it for debugging
> stuff as well.

Is it still the case that ThreadSanitizer only works with gthread
coroutines?

Stefan

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