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    replay: wake up vCPU when replaying · 0c08185f
    Pavel Dovgalyuk 提交于
    In record/replay icount mode vCPU thread and iothread synchronize
    the execution using the checkpoints.
    vCPU thread processes the virtual timers and iothread processes all others.
    When iothread wants to wake up sleeping vCPU thread, it sends dummy queued
    work. Therefore it could be the following sequence of the events in
    record mode:
     - IO: sending dummy work
     - IO: processing timers
     - CPU: wakeup
     - CPU: clearing dummy work
     - CPU: processing virtual timers
    
    But due to the races in replay mode the sequence may change:
     - IO: sending dummy work
     - CPU: wakeup
     - CPU: clearing dummy work
     - CPU: sleeping again because nothing to do
     - IO: Processing timers
     - CPU: zzzz
    
    In this case vCPU will not wake up, because dummy work is not to be set up
    again.
    
    This patch tries to wake up the vCPU when it sleeps and the icount warp
    checkpoint isn't met. It means that vCPU has something to do, because
    there are no other reasons of non-matching warp checkpoint.
    Signed-off-by: NPavel Dovgalyuk <Pavel.Dovgaluk@ispras.ru>
    
    --
    
    v5: improve checking that vCPU is still sleeping
    Message-Id: <20180912081945.3228.19776.stgit@pasha-VirtualBox>
    Signed-off-by: NPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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