Juliet Kim <juli...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > There's some concern this could retry forever, resulting in live lock.
First of all the system will make progress in other areas even if there are repeated retries; we're not indefinitely holding locks or anything like that. Second, Linux checks the H_VASI_STATE result on every retry. If the platform wants to terminate the migration (say, if it imposes a timeout), Linux will abandon it when H_VASI_STATE fails to return H_VASI_SUSPENDING. And it seems incorrect to bail out before that happens, absent hard errors on the Linux side such as allocation failures.
