Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 uq/master 00/22] Win32 iothread support

[Blue Swirl]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> After gathering the comments about the two series I sent separately,
> here is the full series for Win32 iothread support, ready to be
> applied to uq/master.
>
> Patches 1 to 5 are generic Win32 improvements, including the qemu-thread
> implementation.  Because of complex dependencies, I think it's better
> if this part is also routed through uq/master.
>
> Patches 6 to 8 are generic threading improvements, including using
> PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK as suggested by Jan.
>
> Patches 9 to 17 eliminate polling, replacing condition variable
> timedwait with wait.
>
> Patch 18 removes a redundant condition from the TCG cpu_exec_all
> function.
>
> Patches 19 to 21 add all necessary stubs to make iothread compile
> with Win32, except the IPI calls.  These are provided by patch 22.
>
> Tested on Wine and Linux, not on "real" Windows.  The series introduces
> a dependency on Windows 2K or newer.  I don't think either 95/98/ME
> or Windows NT 3.x are reasonable host systems for QEMU, anyway.
>
> I incorporated all suggestions from Jan, including his renaming patch
> for qemu_*_is_self, and included Aurelien's sh4 tweak to cpu_halted.

All look OK except for a minor structure naming nitpick.