Re: [PATCH 0/5 V5] Avoid soft lockup message when KVM is stoppedby host

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Dec 22 2011 - 05:00:19 EST


On 12/19/2011 07:50 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > Maybe it is good (not sure), need to look into schedstats and think of
> > cases that would break legitimate guest hangs. And it probably also
> > affects the position of clearing the flag on the guest side as its
> > currently done in Eric's patchset.
>
> Is the task going to be TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE with SIGSTOP? Don't think
> so.

No.

> Note "Preemption while TASK_RUNNING or TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE" is not
> functional for guest-paused-via-QEMU-monitor case.

Right, it's a different case. Note SIGCONT can be trapped, so it's
similar to monitor cont.

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