Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
You're right, they can't. But its not bad to make it explicit, instead of relying on the locking behaviour?
You could say that we should depend on proper locking instead the order of things shutting down and starting up :)
It's not just a cpu that can access a device; another device could dma into it, so we need to quiesce the system first (including vcpus) and then pause all devices.
-- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
