Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/8] Allow to use pause_all_vcpus from VCPU context

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-02-11 15:16, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 18:31, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
>> In order to perform critical manipulations on the VM state in the
>> context of a VCPU, specifically code patching, stopping and resuming of
>> all VCPUs may be necessary. resume_all_vcpus is already compatible, now
>> enable pause_all_vcpus for this use case by stopping the calling context
>> before starting to wait for the whole gang.
>>
>> CC: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  cpus.c |   12 ++++++++++++
>>  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/cpus.c b/cpus.c
>> index d0c8340..5adfc6b 100644
>> --- a/cpus.c
>> +++ b/cpus.c
>> @@ -870,6 +870,18 @@ void pause_all_vcpus(void)
>>         penv = (CPUState *)penv->next_cpu;
>>     }
>>
>> +    if (!qemu_thread_is_self(&io_thread)) {
>> +        cpu_stop_current();
>> +        if (!kvm_enabled()) {
>> +            while (penv) {
>> +                penv->stop = 0;
>> +                penv->stopped = 1;
>> +                penv = (CPUState *)penv->next_cpu;
> 
> The cast is useless, next_cpu is already CPUState *. I wonder why it
> is used in other cases too.

Indeed, weird. We can clean the others up separately.

Jan

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