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Eric Auger reported the problem days ago that OOB broke ARM when running with libvirt: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg06231.html The problem was that the monitor dispatcher bottom half was bound to qemu_aio_context now, which could be polled unexpectedly in block code. We should keep the dispatchers run in iohandler_ctx just like what we did before the Out-Of-Band series (chardev uses qio, and qio binds everything with iohandler_ctx). If without this change, QMP dispatcher might be run even before reaching main loop in block IO path, for example, in a stack like (the ARM case, "cont" command handler run even during machine init phase): #0 qmp_cont () #1 0x00000000006bd210 in qmp_marshal_cont () #2 0x0000000000ac05c4 in do_qmp_dispatch () #3 0x0000000000ac07a0 in qmp_dispatch () #4 0x0000000000472d60 in monitor_qmp_dispatch_one () #5 0x000000000047302c in monitor_qmp_bh_dispatcher () #6 0x0000000000acf374 in aio_bh_call () #7 0x0000000000acf428 in aio_bh_poll () #8 0x0000000000ad5110 in aio_poll () #9 0x0000000000a08ab8 in blk_prw () #10 0x0000000000a091c4 in blk_pread () #11 0x0000000000734f94 in pflash_cfi01_realize () #12 0x000000000075a3a4 in device_set_realized () #13 0x00000000009a26cc in property_set_bool () #14 0x00000000009a0a40 in object_property_set () #15 0x00000000009a3a08 in object_property_set_qobject () #16 0x00000000009a0c8c in object_property_set_bool () #17 0x0000000000758f94 in qdev_init_nofail () #18 0x000000000058e190 in create_one_flash () #19 0x000000000058e2f4 in create_flash () #20 0x00000000005902f0 in machvirt_init () #21 0x00000000007635cc in machine_run_board_init () #22 0x00000000006b135c in main () Actually the problem is more severe than that. After we switched to the qemu AIO handler it means the monitor dispatcher code can even be called with nested aio_poll(), then it can be an explicit aio_poll() inside another main loop aio_poll() which could be racy too; breaking code like TPM and 9p that use nested event loops. Switch to use the iohandler_ctx for monitor dispatchers. My sincere thanks to Eric Auger who offered great help during both debugging and verifying the problem. The ARM test was carried out by applying this patch upon QEMU 2.12.0-rc0 and problem is gone after the patch. A quick test of mine shows that after this patch applied we can pass all raw iotests even with OOB on by default. CC: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> CC: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Reported-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com> Tested-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180410044942.17059-1-peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@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 git://git.qemu.org/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 git://git.qemu.org/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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