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[xen-unstable] Synchronise lazy execstate before calling tasklet handlers.
# HG changeset patch
# User Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com>
# Date 1271695700 -3600
# Node ID 5175e5e5eb548973481611404a4ef0756a47a064
# Parent 0be8bd195318744e2181235ae31d14c9235cc467
Synchronise lazy execstate before calling tasklet handlers.

This ensures we are properly running on idle-vcpu state, which certain
things (e.g., use of vmx_vmcs_{enter,exit}) rely on. It also means we
don't need to do the same thing in the stopmachine_run handler.

Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com>
---
xen/common/stop_machine.c | 2 --
xen/common/tasklet.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -r 0be8bd195318 -r 5175e5e5eb54 xen/common/stop_machine.c
--- a/xen/common/stop_machine.c Mon Apr 19 17:20:43 2010 +0100
+++ b/xen/common/stop_machine.c Mon Apr 19 17:48:20 2010 +0100
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ int stop_machine_run(int (*fn)(void *),
for_each_cpu_mask ( i, allbutself )
tasklet_schedule_on_cpu(&per_cpu(stopmachine_tasklet, i), i);

- sync_local_execstate();
stopmachine_set_state(STOPMACHINE_PREPARE);

local_irq_disable();
@@ -121,7 +120,6 @@ static void stopmachine_action(unsigned
{
enum stopmachine_state state = STOPMACHINE_START;

- sync_local_execstate();
smp_mb();

while ( state != STOPMACHINE_EXIT )
diff -r 0be8bd195318 -r 5175e5e5eb54 xen/common/tasklet.c
--- a/xen/common/tasklet.c Mon Apr 19 17:20:43 2010 +0100
+++ b/xen/common/tasklet.c Mon Apr 19 17:48:20 2010 +0100
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ void do_tasklet(void)
t->is_running = 1;

spin_unlock_irq(&tasklet_lock);
+ sync_local_execstate();
t->func(t->data);
spin_lock_irq(&tasklet_lock);


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