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Re: [PATCH 2/2] tcg: use QTree instead of GTree


From: Daniel P . Berrangé
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tcg: use QTree instead of GTree
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:34:29 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/2.2.9 (2022-11-12)

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 10:55:36PM -0500, Emilio Cota wrote:
> qemu-user can hang in a multi-threaded fork. One common
> reason is that when creating a TB, between fork and exec
> we manipulate a GTree whose memory allocator (GSlice) is
> not fork-safe.

BTW, I just checked latest glib status

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/1079

it appears they're pretty close to deciding to delete the
GSlice impl and always use system malloc.

So if we do take this patch series it'll hopefully be a time
limited thing to carry. 


With regards,
Daniel
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