The round-robin scheduler will iterate over the CPU list with an
assigned budget until the next timer expiry and may exit early because
of a TB exit. This is fine under normal operation but with icount
enabled and SMP it is possible for a CPU to be starved of run time and
the system live-locks.
For example, booting a riscv64 platform with '-icount
shift=0,align=off,sleep=on -smp 2' we observe a livelock once the kernel
has timers enabled and starts performing TLB shootdowns. In this case
we have CPU 0 in M-mode with interrupts disabled sending an IPI to CPU
1. As we enter the TCG loop, we assign the icount budget to next timer
interrupt to CPU 0 and begin executing where the guest is sat in a busy
loop exhausting all of the budget before we try to execute CPU 1 which
is the target of the IPI but CPU 1 is left with no budget with which to
execute and the process repeats.
We try here to add some fairness by splitting the budget across all of
the CPUs on the thread fairly before entering each one. The CPU count
is cached on CPU list generation ID to avoid iterating the list on each
loop iteration. With this change it is possible to boot an SMP rv64
guest with icount enabled and no hangs.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <quic_jiles@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230427020925.51003-3-quic_jiles@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Commit a82fd5a4ec was intended to be a code cleanup, but
unfortunately it has a bug. It moves the initialization of the
TCG cflags from the "start a new vcpu" function to the
thread handler; this is fine when each vcpu has its own thread,
but when we are doing round-robin of vcpus on a single thread
we end up only initializing the cflags for CPU 0, not for any
of the others.
The most obvious effect of this bug is that running in icount
mode with more than one CPU is broken; typically the guest
hangs shortly after it brings up the secondary CPUs.
This reverts commit a82fd5a4ec.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20221021163409.3674911-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
g_new(T, n) is neater than g_malloc(sizeof(T) * n). It's also safer,
for two reasons. One, it catches multiplication overflowing size_t.
Two, it returns T * rather than void *, which lets the compiler catch
more type errors.
This commit only touches allocations with size arguments of the form
sizeof(T).
Patch created mechanically with:
$ spatch --in-place --sp-file scripts/coccinelle/use-g_new-etc.cocci \
--macro-file scripts/cocci-macro-file.h FILES...
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220315144156.1595462-4-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <Pavel.Dovgalyuk@ispras.ru>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20220207075426.81934-18-f4bug@amsat.org>
A TCG vCPU doing a busy loop systematicaly hangs the QEMU monitor
if the user passes 'device_add' without argument. This is because
drain_cpu_all() which is called from qmp_device_add() cannot return
if readers don't exit read-side critical sections. That is typically
what busy-looping TCG vCPUs do:
int cpu_exec(CPUState *cpu)
{
[...]
rcu_read_lock();
[...]
while (!cpu_handle_exception(cpu, &ret)) {
// Busy loop keeps vCPU here
}
[...]
rcu_read_unlock();
return ret;
}
For MTTCG, have all vCPU threads register a force_rcu notifier that will
kick them out of the loop using async_run_on_cpu(). The notifier is called
with the rcu_registry_lock mutex held, using async_run_on_cpu() ensures
there are no deadlocks.
For RR, a single thread runs all vCPUs. Just register a single notifier
that kicks the current vCPU to the next one.
For MTTCG:
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
For RR:
Suggested-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Fixes: 7bed89958b ("device_core: use drain_call_rcu in in qmp_device_add")
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/650
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20211109183523.47726-3-groug@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
The TCG_KICK_PERIOD macro is already defined in tcg-accel-ops-rr.h.
Remove it from tcg-accel-ops-rr.c.
Signed-off-by: Luc Michel <lmichel@kalray.eu>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20210811141229.12470-1-lmichel@kalray.eu>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Stop including hw/boards.h in files that don't need it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210416171314.2074665-3-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
The primary motivation is to remove a dozen insns along
the fast-path in tb_lookup. As a byproduct, this allows
us to completely remove parallel_cpus.
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
This will allow us to centralize the registration of
the cpus.c module accelerator operations (in accel/accel-softmmu.c),
and trigger it automatically using object hierarchy lookup from the
new accel_init_interfaces() initialization step, depending just on
which accelerators are available in the code.
Rename all tcg-cpus.c, kvm-cpus.c, etc to tcg-accel-ops.c,
kvm-accel-ops.c, etc, matching the object type names.
Signed-off-by: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
Message-Id: <20210204163931.7358-18-cfontana@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
