Re: [PATCH 0/5 V5] Avoid soft lockup message when KVM is stoppedby host

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/14/2011 07:58 PM, Eric B Munson wrote:
> > I don't think you should see a guest softlockup if the host is
> > overloaded.  Nor should you see it due to a long live migration pause,
> > or STOP/CONT.  You should see a guest softlockup if it is spinning due
> > to a guest bug, and not for any other reason.
> > 
> > I think we need a mix of the ioctl (for STOP/CONT and voluntary pauses,
> > like live migration or qemu stop/cont) and preempt notifiers (together
> > with a check for TASK_RUNNING/TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, for scheduling or
> > swap delays)
> > 
>
> Do you want the preemption notifier work in before you will consider merging
> this set, or can that be a follow on?

Yes please.

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