On 2012-08-17 16:36, Jan Kiszka wrote: > 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(); rmb is nonsense. Should be a plain barrier() - if at all. > 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). 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