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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2015-07-21 16:07:52 +0200
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2015-07-22 12:41:40 +0100
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AioContext: fix broken placement of event_notifier_test_and_clear
event_notifier_test_and_clear must be called before processing events. Otherwise, an aio_poll could "eat" the notification before the main I/O thread invokes ppoll(). The main I/O thread then never wakes up. This is an example of what could happen: i/o thread vcpu thread worker thread --------------------------------------------------------------------- lock_iothread notify_me = 1 ... unlock_iothread bh->scheduled = 1 event_notifier_set lock_iothread notify_me = 3 ppoll notify_me = 1 aio_dispatch aio_bh_poll thread_pool_completion_bh bh->scheduled = 1 event_notifier_set node->io_read(node->opaque) event_notifier_test_and_clear ppoll *** hang *** "Tracing" with qemu_clock_get_ns shows pretty much the same behavior as in the previous bug, so there are no new tricks here---just stare more at the code until it is apparent. One could also use a formal model, of course. The included one shows this with three processes: notifier corresponds to a QEMU thread pool worker, temporary_waiter to a VCPU thread that invokes aio_poll(), waiter to the main I/O thread. I would be happy to say that the formal model found the bug for me, but actually I wrote it after the fact. This patch is a bit of a big hammer. The next one optimizes it, with help (this time for real rather than a posteriori :)) from another, similar formal model. Reported-by: Richard W. M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> Message-id: 1437487673-23740-6-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/aio-posix.c b/aio-posix.c
index 249889f..5c8b266 100644
--- a/aio-posix.c
+++ b/aio-posix.c
@@ -276,6 +276,8 @@ bool aio_poll(AioContext *ctx, bool blocking)
aio_context_acquire(ctx);
}
+ event_notifier_test_and_clear(&ctx->notifier);
+
/* if we have any readable fds, dispatch event */
if (ret > 0) {
for (i = 0; i < npfd; i++) {