Re: [kvm-devel] KVM: kvm_vcpu_block task state race

[Marcelo T. <mto...@re...>]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:22:08PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> For things like register dumps I don't believe its worthwhile. Much
> simpler to stop the vcpu with SIG_IPI, retrieve registers, and run it
> again (now that you mention the busy-spin, it is broken right now, if a
> vcpu is spinning without exiting to userspace).

... which is what Jan's gdb/monitor patch does.