Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: Wait for all VCPU threads to exit while rebooting

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On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch changes kvm_cpu__reboot() behaviour to block until all VCPU
> threads have ended, this allows us to assume that the guest is stopped
> when the function has returned.
>
> This fixes errors on close caused by releasing KVM_RUN structure while
> VCPUs were still running.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  tools/kvm/kvm-cpu.c |   10 ++++++++--
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/kvm/kvm-cpu.c b/tools/kvm/kvm-cpu.c
> index 2f5d23c..64c0997 100644
> --- a/tools/kvm/kvm-cpu.c
> +++ b/tools/kvm/kvm-cpu.c
> @@ -421,7 +421,13 @@ static void kvm_cpu__handle_coalesced_mmio(struct kvm_cpu *cpu)
>
>  void kvm_cpu__reboot(void)
>  {
> -       pthread_kill(kvm_cpus[0]->thread, SIGKVMEXIT);
> +       int i;
> +
> +       for (i = 0; i < KVM_NR_CPUS; i++)
> +               if (kvm_cpus[i]) {
> +                       pthread_kill(kvm_cpus[i]->thread, SIGKVMEXIT);
> +                       pthread_join(kvm_cpus[i]->thread, NULL);
> +               }

Wouldn't it be better to first pthread_kill() all CPUs first and do
pthread_join() in separate loop? That should be faster especially if
there's lots of CPUs.

>  }
>
>  int kvm_cpu__start(struct kvm_cpu *cpu)
> @@ -442,7 +448,7 @@ int kvm_cpu__start(struct kvm_cpu *cpu)
>        if (cpu->kvm->single_step)
>                kvm_cpu__enable_singlestep(cpu);
>
> -       for (;;) {
> +       while (cpu->is_running) {
>                if (cpu->paused) {
>                        kvm__notify_paused();
>                        cpu->paused = 0;
> --
> 1.7.6
>
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