Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] cpus: remove useless cond signal

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 May 2018 at 12:55, linzhecheng <address@hidden> wrote:
> commit dbadee4 removed qemu_cond_wait in cpu_remove_sync, so it is
> useless to keep qemu_cond_signal here.
>
> Signed-off-by: linzhecheng <address@hidden>
>
> diff --git a/cpus.c b/cpus.c
> index 5bcd3ecf38..c7262484f3 100644
> --- a/cpus.c
> +++ b/cpus.c
> @@ -1222,7 +1222,6 @@ static void *qemu_kvm_cpu_thread_fn(void *arg)
>
>      qemu_kvm_destroy_vcpu(cpu);
>      cpu->created = false;
> -    qemu_cond_signal(&qemu_cpu_cond);
>      qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread();
>      rcu_unregister_thread();
>      return NULL;
> --
> 2.12.2.windows.2

At the moment we seem to have an invariant "everywhere we
set cpu->created = false we also signal the qemu_cpu_cond".
If signalling the condition is no longer necessary in this
function, is it also no longer necessary in all the other
places where we do it after setting created = false ?

thanks
-- PMM