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Changing the default IO timeout to 5 s (#5578) made a race visible between the alarm_timer and select() in main_loop_wait(): If the timer fired before select was able to block, the full select() timeout could have been applied instead of returning immediately. Since #5578, this causes heavy problems to the Musicpal board emulation with stalls up to 5 s, but also with some older Linux guest kernels. The following patch introduces a pipe that is written to by host_alarm_handler and select()'ed in main_loop_wait(). This avoids prevents that select() blocks though a timer has fired and waits for processing. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5633 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
Read the documentation in qemu-doc.html. Fabrice Bellard.