Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Ping?
>
> Thanks,
> Laurent
>
> On 12/12/2019 20:40, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> On 06/12/2019 20:52, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>>> * Laurent Vivier (lviv...@redhat.com) wrote:
>>>> Commit 1bd71dce4bf2 tries to prevent a finishmigrate -> prelaunch
>>>> transition by exiting at the beginning of the main_loop_should_exit()
>>>> function if the state is already finishmigrate.
>>>>
>>>> As the finishmigrate state is set in the migration thread it can
>>>> happen concurrently to the function. The migration thread and the
>>>> function are normally protected by the iothread mutex and thus the
>>>> state should no evolve between the start of the function and its end.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately during the function life the lock is released by
>>>> pause_all_vcpus() just before the point we need to be sure we are
>>>> not in finishmigrate state and if the migration thread is waiting
>>>> for the lock it will take the opportunity to change the state
>>>> to finishmigrate.
>>>
>>> Ewww.
>>> I hate those short wakeups for pause_all_vcpus; I'm sure there are loads
>>> more corners that break.
>>>
>>> Still, I _think_ this is an improvement, so:
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com>
>>>
>> 
>> Who volunteers to take this in his queue?

Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com>

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