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| From: | Markus Armbruster |
| Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 4/7] monitor: check if chardev can switch gcontext for OOB |
| Date: | Thu, 06 Dec 2018 06:46:13 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden> writes: > Not all backends are able to switch gcontext. Those backends cannot > drive a OOB monitor (the monitor would then be blocking on main > thread). > > For example, ringbuf, spice, or more esoteric input chardevs like > braille or MUX. > > We currently forbid MUX because not all frontends are ready to run > outside main loop. Extend to add a context-switching feature check. > > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
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