cpus: run work items for all vCPUs if single-threaded
authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:36:57 +0000 (12:36 +0100)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:06:14 +0000 (15:06 +0100)
This avoids the following I/O thread deadlock:

1) the I/O thread calls run_on_cpu for CPU 3 from a timer.  single_tcg_halt_cond
is signaled

2) CPU 1 is running and exits.  It finds no work item and enters CPU 2

3) because the I/O thread is stuck in run_on_cpu, the round-robin kick
timer never triggers, and CPU 3 never runs the work item

4) run_on_cpu never completes

Reviewed-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
cpus.c

diff --git a/cpus.c b/cpus.c
index a2b33ccb293e50bd977d700e32c4a8e09f61e1f3..0ddeeefc14f18da10a0a76919bccb31f807fb374 100644 (file)
--- a/cpus.c
+++ b/cpus.c
@@ -1220,16 +1220,20 @@ static void qemu_wait_io_event_common(CPUState *cpu)
     process_queued_cpu_work(cpu);
 }
 
-static void qemu_tcg_rr_wait_io_event(CPUState *cpu)
+static void qemu_tcg_rr_wait_io_event(void)
 {
+    CPUState *cpu;
+
     while (all_cpu_threads_idle()) {
         stop_tcg_kick_timer();
-        qemu_cond_wait(cpu->halt_cond, &qemu_global_mutex);
+        qemu_cond_wait(first_cpu->halt_cond, &qemu_global_mutex);
     }
 
     start_tcg_kick_timer();
 
-    qemu_wait_io_event_common(cpu);
+    CPU_FOREACH(cpu) {
+        qemu_wait_io_event_common(cpu);
+    }
 }
 
 static void qemu_wait_io_event(CPUState *cpu)
@@ -1562,7 +1566,7 @@ static void *qemu_tcg_rr_cpu_thread_fn(void *arg)
             qemu_notify_event();
         }
 
-        qemu_tcg_rr_wait_io_event(cpu ? cpu : first_cpu);
+        qemu_tcg_rr_wait_io_event();
         deal_with_unplugged_cpus();
     }