On 2012-08-17 15:11, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2012-08-06 17:11, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Peter Lieven <pl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> i debugged my initial problem further and found out that the problem happens >>> to be that >>> the main thread is stuck in pause_all_vcpus() on reset or quit commands in >>> the monitor >>> if one cpu is stuck in the do-while loop kvm_cpu_exec. If I modify the >>> condition from while (ret == 0) >>> to while ((ret == 0) && !env->stop); it works, but is this the right fix? >>> "Quit" command seems to work, but on "Reset" the VM enterns pause state. >> >> I think I'm hitting something similar. I installed a F17 amd64 guest >> (3.5 kernel) but before booting entered the GRUB boot menu edit mode. >> The guest seemed unresponsive so I switched to the monitor, which also >> froze shortly afterwards. The VNC screen ended up being all black. >> >> qemu-kvm.git/master 3e4305694fd891b69e4450e59ec4c65420907ede >> Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 from Debian testing >> >> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 2 -drive >> if=virtio,cache=none,file=f17.img,aio=native -serial stdio >> >> (gdb) thread apply all bt >> >> Thread 3 (Thread 0x7f8008e23700 (LWP 367)): >> #0 0x00007f800f891727 in ioctl () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:82 >> #1 0x00007f80137b92c9 in kvm_vcpu_ioctl >> (env=env@entry=0x7f8015b49640, type=type@entry=44672) >> at /home/stefanha/qemu-kvm/kvm-all.c:1619 >> #2 0x00007f80137b93fe in kvm_cpu_exec (env=env@entry=0x7f8015b49640) >> at /home/stefanha/qemu-kvm/kvm-all.c:1506 >> #3 0x00007f8013766f31 in qemu_kvm_cpu_thread_fn (arg=0x7f8015b49640) >> at /home/stefanha/qemu-kvm/cpus.c:756 >> #4 0x00007f800fb4db50 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at >> pthread_create.c:304 >> #5 0x00007f800f8986dd in clone () at >> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:112 >> #6 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () >> >> This vcpu is still executing guest code and I've seen it successfully >> dispatching I/O. The problem is it's missing the exit_request... >> >> Thread 2 (Thread 0x7f8008622700 (LWP 368)): >> #0 pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () >> at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_cond_wait.S:162 >> #1 0x00007f801372b229 in qemu_cond_wait (cond=<optimized out>, >> mutex=mutex@entry=0x7f80144367c0) at qemu-thread-posix.c:113 >> #2 0x00007f8013766eff in qemu_kvm_wait_io_event (env=<optimized out>) >> at /home/stefanha/qemu-kvm/cpus.c:724 >> #3 qemu_kvm_cpu_thread_fn (arg=0x7f8015b67450) at >> /home/stefanha/qemu-kvm/cpus.c:761 >> #4 0x00007f800fb4db50 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at >> pthread_create.c:304 >> #5 0x00007f800f8986dd in clone () at >> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:112 >> #6 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () >> >> No problems here. >> >> Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f801347b8c0 (LWP 365)): >> #0 pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () >> at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_cond_wait.S:162 >> #1 0x00007f801372b229 in qemu_cond_wait (cond=cond@entry=0x7f801402fd80, >> mutex=mutex@entry=0x7f80144367c0) at qemu-thread-posix.c:113 >> #2 0x00007f8013768949 in pause_all_vcpus () at >> /home/stefanha/qemu-kvm/cpus.c:962 >> #3 0x00007f80136028c8 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, >> envp=<optimized out>) at /home/stefanha/qemu-kvm/vl.c:3695 >> >> We're deadlocked in pause_all_vcpus(), waiting for vcpu #0 to pause. >> Unfortunately vcpu #0 has ->exit_request=0 although ->stop=1. >> >> Here are the vcpus: >> >> (gdb) p first_cpu >> $6 = (struct CPUX86State *) 0x7f8015b49640 >> (gdb) p first_cpu->next_cpu >> $7 = (struct CPUX86State *) 0x7f8015b67450 >> (gdb) p first_cpu->next_cpu->next_cpu >> $8 = (struct CPUX86State *) 0x0 >> >> (gdb) p first_cpu->stop >> $9 = 1 >> (gdb) p first_cpu->stopped >> $10 = 0 >> (gdb) p first_cpu->exit_request >> $11 = 0 > > CPUState::exit_request is only set on specific synchronous events, see > target-i386/kvm.c. > > More interesting is CPUState::thread_kicked. If it's set, qemu_cpu_kick > will skip the kicking via a signal. Maybe there is some race. Let me > think about such possibilities again... diff --git a/cpus.c b/cpus.c index e476a3c..30f3228 100644 --- a/cpus.c +++ b/cpus.c @@ -726,6 +726,9 @@ static void qemu_kvm_wait_io_event(CPUArchState *env) } qemu_kvm_eat_signals(env); + /* Ensure that checking env->stop cannot overtake signal processing so + * that we lose the latter without stopping. */ + smp_rmb(); qemu_wait_io_event_common(env); } Can anyone imagine that such a barrier may actually be required? If it is currently possible that env->stop is evaluated before we called into sigtimedwait in qemu_kvm_eat_signals, then we could actually eat the signal without properly processing its reason (stop). Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html