Lukas reported an hard to reproduce QMP iothread hang on s390 that
QEMU might hang at pthread_join() of the QMP monitor iothread before
quitting:
Thread 1
#0 0x000003ffad10932c in pthread_join
#1 0x0000000109e95750 in qemu_thread_join
at /home/thuth/devel/qemu/util/qemu-thread-posix.c:570
#2 0x0000000109c95a1c in iothread_stop
#3 0x0000000109bb0874 in monitor_cleanup
#4 0x0000000109b55042 in main
While the iothread is still in the main loop:
Thread 4
#0 0x000003ffad0010e4 in ??
#1 0x000003ffad553958 in g_main_context_iterate.isra.19
#2 0x000003ffad553d90 in g_main_loop_run
#3 0x0000000109c9585a in iothread_run
at /home/thuth/devel/qemu/iothread.c:74
#4 0x0000000109e94752 in qemu_thread_start
at /home/thuth/devel/qemu/util/qemu-thread-posix.c:502
#5 0x000003ffad10825a in start_thread
#6 0x000003ffad00dcf2 in thread_start
IMHO it's because there's a race between the main thread and iothread
when stopping the thread in following sequence:
main thread iothread
=========== ==============
aio_poll()
iothread_get_g_main_context
set iothread->worker_context
iothread_stop
schedule iothread_stop_bh
execute iothread_stop_bh [1]
set iothread->running=false
(since main_loop==NULL so
skip to quit main loop.
Note: although main_loop is
NULL but worker_context is
not!)
atomic_read(&iothread->worker_context) [2]
create main_loop object
g_main_loop_run() [3]
pthread_join() [4]
We can see that when execute iothread_stop_bh() at [1] it's possible
that main_loop is still NULL because it's only created until the first
check of the worker_context later at [2]. Then the iothread will hang
in the main loop [3] and it'll starve the main thread too [4].
Here the simple solution should be that we check again the "running"
variable before check against worker_context.
CC: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
CC: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
CC: Lukáš Doktor <ldoktor@redhat.com>
CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
CC: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Lukáš Doktor <ldoktor@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20190129051432.22023-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu-web.git
https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
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