Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals.

[Anthony Liguori]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jamie Lokier writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle 
> terminating signals."):
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> Yes.  Err, I'm not sure what effect that will have in Anthony's patch
> but it probably wouldn't be good.
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> As I say I haven't managed to reproduce this other than in a full
> qemu-dm tree (from qemu-xen).
>
> So it may be that it is because of something I did or something the
> qemu-xen code does - although it seems hard to imagine how it could
> break the signal mask in the helper thread given that that thread runs
> entirely glibc code, except when a signal is being delivered (and of
> course the signal mask is saved and restored for signal delivery).
>   

Perhaps the signal is being consumed in one of qemu-dm's other threads 
mistakenly?

What you're describing would seem like a serious bug.  For a while, I 
was testing a version of QEMU/KVM that slept forever in select() and I 
never saw any instances of the signal not getting delivered.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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