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Commit 8c79873d authored by Rusty Russell's avatar Rusty Russell
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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: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
parent 0f0c4fab
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