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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/11] tcg: Make direct jump patching thread-saf


From: Sergey Fedorov
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/11] tcg: Make direct jump patching thread-safe
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 18:56:22 +0300
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On 07/04/16 18:53, Sergey Fedorov wrote:
> From: Sergey Fedorov <address@hidden>
>
> When patching translated code for direct block chaining/unchaining,
> modification of concurrently executing code can happen in multi-threaded
> execution.  Currently only user-mode is affected. To make direct block 
> patching
> safe, some care must be taken to make sure that the code modification is made
> atomic and concurrently executed code is guaranteed to be consistent.
>
> This patch series fixes all supported TCG targets using direct patching and
> documents the requirement for direct jump patching be atomic and thread-safe.
>
> The series' tree can be found in a public git repository [1].
>
> [1] https://github.com/sergefdrv/qemu/tree/atomic-tb-patching
>

Sorry, the first two patches got there by mistake...

Kind regards,
Sergey



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