Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvmtool: assume dead vcpus are paused too

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On 11/05/2015 09:41 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 06:51:12PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > On 11/04/2015 06:51 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> > > +	mutex_lock(&pause_lock);
>>> > > +
>>> > > +	/* The kvm->cpus array contains a null pointer in the last location */
>>> > > +	for (i = 0; ; i++) {
>>> > > +		if (kvm->cpus[i])
>>> > > +			pthread_kill(kvm->cpus[i]->thread, SIGKVMEXIT);
>>> > > +		else
>>> > > +			break;
>>> > > +	}
>>> > > +
>>> > > +	kvm__continue(kvm);
>> > 
>> > In this scenario: if we grabbed pause_lock, signaled vcpu0 to exit, and it did
>> > before we called kvm__continue(), we won't end up releasing pause_lock, which
>> > might cause a lockup later, no?
> Hmm, yeah, maybe that should be an explicit mutex_unlock rather than a
> call to kvm__continue.

Yeah, that should do the trick.


Thanks,
Sasha
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