[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] qemu-timer: drop outdated signal safety comments

2013-08-27 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
host_alarm_handler() is invoked from the signal processing thread (currently the iothread). Previously we did processing in a real signal handler with signalfd and therefore needed signal-safe timer code. Today host_alarm_handler() just marks the alarm timer as expired/pending and notifies the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] qemu-timer: drop outdated signal safety comments

2013-08-27 Thread Alex Bligh
On 27 Aug 2013, at 09:23, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: host_alarm_handler() is invoked from the signal processing thread (currently the iothread). Previously we did processing in a real signal handler with signalfd and therefore needed signal-safe timer code. Today host_alarm_handler() just