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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-07-29 10:58:38 -0400
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-07-28 19:58:39 -0400
commit8c79873da0d2bedf4ad6b868c54e426bb0a2fe38 (patch)
tree270efee346b70ae6615dd4796363479c94eca6d9 /arch/x86/kernel
parent0f0c4fab8284f3b886b2e1e0e317e3bb8de176b3 (diff)
lguest: turn Waker into a thread, not a process
lguest uses a Waker process to break it out of the kernel (ie. actually running the guest) when file descriptor needs attention. Changing this from a process to a thread somewhat simplifies things: it can directly access the fd_set of things to watch. More importantly, it means that the Waker can see Guest memory correctly, so /dev/vring file descriptors will work as anticipated (the alternative is to actually mmap MAP_SHARED, but you can't do that with /dev/zero). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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