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From: | Paolo Bonzini |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 4/5] s390x/kvm: test whether a cpu is STOPPED when checking "has_work" |
Date: | Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:19:35 +0200 |
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Il 28/07/2014 16:16, David Hildenbrand ha scritto: > Later, another vcpu might decide to turn that vcpu back on (by e.g. sending a > SIGP START to that vcpu). > > I am not sure if such a mechanism/scenario is applicable to any other arch. > They > all seem to reset the cs->halted flag if they know they are able to run (e.g. > due to an interrupt) - they have no such thing as "stopped cpus", only > "halted/waiting cpus". On x86, INIT_RECEIVED is pretty much a stopped CPU. It can only run (and receive interrupts) after getting a special startup interrupt ("SIPI"). Paolo
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