async: aio_context_new(): Handle event_notifier_init failure

On a system with a low limit of open files the initialization
of the event notifier could fail and QEMU exits without printing any
error information to the user.

The problem can be easily reproduced by enforcing a low limit of open
files and start QEMU with enough I/O threads to hit this limit.

The same problem raises, without the creation of I/O threads, while
QEMU initializes the main event loop by enforcing an even lower limit of
open files.

This commit adds an error message on failure:

 # qemu [...] -object iothread,id=iothread0 -object iothread,id=iothread1
 qemu: Failed to initialize event notifier: Too many open files in system

Signed-off-by: Chrysostomos Nanakos <cnanakos@grnet.gr>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

async.c

@@ -289,18 +289,24 @@ static void aio_rfifolock_cb(void *opaque)
     aio_notify(opaque);
 }
 
-AioContext *aio_context_new(void)
+AioContext *aio_context_new(Error **errp)
 {
+    int ret;
     AioContext *ctx;
     ctx = (AioContext *) g_source_new(&aio_source_funcs, sizeof(AioContext));
+    ret = event_notifier_init(&ctx->notifier, false);
+    if (ret < 0) {
+        g_source_destroy(&ctx->source);
+        error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Failed to initialize event notifier");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    aio_set_event_notifier(ctx, &ctx->notifier,
+                           (EventNotifierHandler *)
+                           event_notifier_test_and_clear);
     ctx->pollfds = g_array_new(FALSE, FALSE, sizeof(GPollFD));
     ctx->thread_pool = NULL;
     qemu_mutex_init(&ctx->bh_lock);
     rfifolock_init(&ctx->lock, aio_rfifolock_cb, ctx);
-    event_notifier_init(&ctx->notifier, false);
-    aio_set_event_notifier(ctx, &ctx->notifier, 
-                           (EventNotifierHandler *)
-                           event_notifier_test_and_clear);
     timerlistgroup_init(&ctx->tlg, aio_timerlist_notify, ctx);
 
     return ctx;

include/block/aio.h

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ void aio_set_dispatching(AioContext *ctx, bool dispatching);
  * They also provide bottom halves, a service to execute a piece of code
  * as soon as possible.
  */
-AioContext *aio_context_new(void);
+AioContext *aio_context_new(Error **errp);
 
 /**
  * aio_context_ref:

include/qemu/main-loop.h

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
  *
  * In the case of QEMU tools, this will also start/initialize timers.
  */
-int qemu_init_main_loop(void);
+int qemu_init_main_loop(Error **errp);
 
 /**
  * main_loop_wait: Run one iteration of the main loop.

iothread.c

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include "block/aio.h"
 #include "sysemu/iothread.h"
 #include "qmp-commands.h"
+#include "qemu/error-report.h"
 
 #define IOTHREADS_PATH "/objects"
 
@@ -53,6 +54,9 @@ static void iothread_instance_finalize(Object *obj)
 {
     IOThread *iothread = IOTHREAD(obj);
 
+    if (!iothread->ctx) {
+        return;
+    }
     iothread->stopping = true;
     aio_notify(iothread->ctx);
     qemu_thread_join(&iothread->thread);
@@ -63,11 +67,16 @@ static void iothread_instance_finalize(Object *obj)
 
 static void iothread_complete(UserCreatable *obj, Error **errp)
 {
+    Error *local_error = NULL;
     IOThread *iothread = IOTHREAD(obj);
 
     iothread->stopping = false;
-    iothread->ctx = aio_context_new();
     iothread->thread_id = -1;
+    iothread->ctx = aio_context_new(&local_error);
+    if (!iothread->ctx) {
+        error_propagate(errp, local_error);
+        return;
+    }
 
     qemu_mutex_init(&iothread->init_done_lock);
     qemu_cond_init(&iothread->init_done_cond);

main-loop.c

@@ -126,10 +126,11 @@ void qemu_notify_event(void)
 
 static GArray *gpollfds;
 
-int qemu_init_main_loop(void)
+int qemu_init_main_loop(Error **errp)
 {
     int ret;
     GSource *src;
+    Error *local_error = NULL;
 
     init_clocks();
 
@@ -138,8 +139,12 @@ int qemu_init_main_loop(void)
         return ret;
     }
 
+    qemu_aio_context = aio_context_new(&local_error);
+    if (!qemu_aio_context) {
+        error_propagate(errp, local_error);
+        return -EMFILE;
+    }
     gpollfds = g_array_new(FALSE, FALSE, sizeof(GPollFD));
-    qemu_aio_context = aio_context_new();
     src = aio_get_g_source(qemu_aio_context);
     g_source_attach(src, NULL);
     g_source_unref(src);

qemu-img.c

@@ -2879,6 +2879,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
     const img_cmd_t *cmd;
     const char *cmdname;
+    Error *local_error = NULL;
     int c;
     static const struct option long_options[] = {
         {"help", no_argument, 0, 'h'},
@@ -2893,7 +2894,12 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     error_set_progname(argv[0]);
     qemu_init_exec_dir(argv[0]);
 
-    qemu_init_main_loop();
+    if (qemu_init_main_loop(&local_error)) {
+        error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(local_error));
+        error_free(local_error);
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+    }
+
     bdrv_init();
     if (argc < 2) {
         error_exit("Not enough arguments");

qemu-io.c

@@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     int c;
     int opt_index = 0;
     int flags = BDRV_O_UNMAP;
+    Error *local_error = NULL;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_POSIX
     signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
@@ -444,7 +445,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
         exit(1);
     }
 
-    qemu_init_main_loop();
+    if (qemu_init_main_loop(&local_error)) {
+        error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(local_error));
+        error_free(local_error);
+        exit(1);
+    }
     bdrv_init();
 
     /* initialize commands */

qemu-nbd.c

@@ -674,7 +674,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
         snprintf(sockpath, 128, SOCKET_PATH, basename(device));
     }
 
-    qemu_init_main_loop();
+    if (qemu_init_main_loop(&local_err)) {
+        error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(local_err));
+        error_free(local_err);
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+    }
     bdrv_init();
     atexit(bdrv_close_all);
 

tests/test-aio.c

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include "block/aio.h"
 #include "qemu/timer.h"
 #include "qemu/sockets.h"
+#include "qemu/error-report.h"
 
 static AioContext *ctx;
 
@@ -810,11 +811,18 @@ static void test_source_timer_schedule(void)
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
+    Error *local_error = NULL;
     GSource *src;
 
     init_clocks();
 
-    ctx = aio_context_new();
+    ctx = aio_context_new(&local_error);
+    if (!ctx) {
+        error_report("Failed to create AIO Context: '%s'",
+                     error_get_pretty(local_error));
+        error_free(local_error);
+        exit(1);
+    }
     src = aio_get_g_source(ctx);
     g_source_attach(src, NULL);
     g_source_unref(src);

tests/test-thread-pool.c

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include "block/thread-pool.h"
 #include "block/block.h"
 #include "qemu/timer.h"
+#include "qemu/error-report.h"
 
 static AioContext *ctx;
 static ThreadPool *pool;
@@ -222,10 +223,17 @@ static void test_cancel_async(void)
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
     int ret;
+    Error *local_error = NULL;
 
     init_clocks();
 
-    ctx = aio_context_new();
+    ctx = aio_context_new(&local_error);
+    if (!ctx) {
+        error_report("Failed to create AIO Context: '%s'",
+                     error_get_pretty(local_error));
+        error_free(local_error);
+        exit(1);
+    }
     pool = aio_get_thread_pool(ctx);
 
     g_test_init(&argc, &argv, NULL);

tests/test-throttle.c

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <math.h>
 #include "block/aio.h"
 #include "qemu/throttle.h"
+#include "qemu/error-report.h"
 
 static AioContext     *ctx;
 static LeakyBucket    bkt;
@@ -492,10 +493,17 @@ static void test_accounting(void)
 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
     GSource *src;
+    Error *local_error = NULL;
 
     init_clocks();
 
-    ctx = aio_context_new();
+    ctx = aio_context_new(&local_error);
+    if (!ctx) {
+        error_report("Failed to create AIO Context: '%s'",
+                     error_get_pretty(local_error));
+        error_free(local_error);
+        exit(1);
+    }
     src = aio_get_g_source(ctx);
     g_source_attach(src, NULL);
     g_source_unref(src);

vl.c

@@ -2968,6 +2968,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
     ram_addr_t maxram_size = default_ram_size;
     uint64_t ram_slots = 0;
     FILE *vmstate_dump_file = NULL;
+    Error *main_loop_err = NULL;
 
     atexit(qemu_run_exit_notifiers);
     error_set_progname(argv[0]);
@@ -3998,8 +3999,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
 
     os_daemonize();
 
-    if (qemu_init_main_loop()) {
+    if (qemu_init_main_loop(&main_loop_err)) {
-        fprintf(stderr, "qemu_init_main_loop failed\n");
+        error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(main_loop_err));
         exit(1);
     }