Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] eventfd: allow atomic read and waitqueue remove

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On 01/21/2010 07:56 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 01/21/2010 07:45 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

But you're in process context.  An eventfd never blocks.
Yes it blocks if counter is 0. And we don't know
it's not 0 unless we read :) catch-22.

Ah yes, I forgot.


Well, you can poll it and then read it... this introduces a new race (if userspace does a read in parallel) but it's limited to kvm and buggy userspace.

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