vl: take iothread lock very early

If the iothread lock isn't taken by the main thread, the RCU callbacks
might run concurrently with the main thread.  QEMU's not ready for that.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index 5d13d2f..801d487 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -2767,6 +2767,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
     FILE *vmstate_dump_file = NULL;
     Error *main_loop_err = NULL;
 
+    qemu_init_cpu_loop();
+    qemu_mutex_lock_iothread();
+
     atexit(qemu_run_exit_notifiers);
     error_set_progname(argv[0]);
     qemu_init_exec_dir(argv[0]);
@@ -4102,9 +4105,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
 
     os_set_line_buffering();
 
-    qemu_init_cpu_loop();
-    qemu_mutex_lock_iothread();
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPICE
     /* spice needs the timers to be initialized by this point */
     qemu_spice_init();