Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] char: kick main loop after adding a watch

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 06:53:56PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> glib is expecting QEMU to use g_main_context_acquire around accesses to 
> GMainContext.  However QEMU is not doing that, instead it is taking its 
> own mutex.  So we should add g_main_context_acquire and
> g_main_context_release in the two implementations of 
> os_host_main_loop_wait; these should undo the effect of Frediano's 
> glib patch.

Based on this paragraph, I'm testing the attached patch, and it does
also appear to solve the hanging serial port problem.

Rich.

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