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2017-11-21coroutine: abort if we try to schedule or enter a pending coroutineJeff Cody1-0/+13
The previous patch fixed a race condition, in which there were coroutines being executing doubly, or after coroutine deletion. We can detect common scenarios when this happens, and print an error message and abort before we corrupt memory / data, or segfault. This patch will abort if an attempt to enter a coroutine is made while it is currently pending execution, either in a specific AioContext bh, or pending execution via a timer. It will also abort if a coroutine is scheduled, before a prior scheduled run has occurred. We cannot rely on the existing co->caller check for recursive re-entry to catch this, as the coroutine may run and exit with COROUTINE_TERMINATE before the scheduled coroutine executes. (This is the scenario that was occurring and fixed in the previous patch). This patch also re-orders the Coroutine struct elements in an attempt to optimize caching. Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-11-08util/async: use atomic_mb_set in qemu_bh_cancelSergio Lopez1-1/+1
Commit b7a745d added a qemu_bh_cancel call to the completion function as an optimization to prevent it from unnecessarily rescheduling itself. This completion function is scheduled from worker_thread, after setting the state of a ThreadPoolElement to THREAD_DONE. This was considered to be safe, as the completion function restarts the loop just after the call to qemu_bh_cancel. But, as this loop lacks a HW memory barrier, the read of req->state may actually happen _before_ the call, seeing it still as THREAD_QUEUED, and ending the completion function without having processed a pending TPE linked at pool->head: worker thread | I/O thread ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | speculatively read req->state req->state = THREAD_DONE; | qemu_bh_schedule(p->completion_bh) | bh->scheduled = 1; | | qemu_bh_cancel(p->completion_bh) | bh->scheduled = 0; | if (req->state == THREAD_DONE) | // sees THREAD_QUEUED The source of the misunderstanding was that qemu_bh_cancel is now being used by the _consumer_ rather than the producer, and therefore now needs to have acquire semantics just like e.g. aio_bh_poll. In some situations, if there are no other independent requests in the same aio context that could eventually trigger the scheduling of the completion function, the omitted TPE and all operations pending on it will get stuck forever. [Added Sergio's updated wording about the HW memory barrier. --Stefan] Signed-off-by: Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com> Message-id: 20171108063447.2842-1-slp@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-04-11async: Introduce aio_co_enterFam Zheng1-1/+6
They start the coroutine on the specified context. Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2017-03-14cpus: define QEMUTimerListNotifyCB for QEMU system emulationPaolo Bonzini1-1/+1
There is no change for now, because the callback just invokes qemu_notify_event. Reviewed-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-02-21async: remove unnecessary inc/dec pairsPaolo Bonzini1-6/+6
Pull the increment/decrement pair out of aio_bh_poll and into the callers. Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170213135235.12274-18-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-02-21aio-posix: partially inline aio_dispatch into aio_pollPaolo Bonzini1-1/+1
This patch prepares for the removal of unnecessary lockcnt inc/dec pairs. Extract the dispatching loop for file descriptor handlers into a new function aio_dispatch_handlers, and then inline aio_dispatch into aio_poll. aio_dispatch can now become void. Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170213135235.12274-17-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-02-21block: explicitly acquire aiocontext in bottom halves that need itPaolo Bonzini1-2/+2
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170213135235.12274-15-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-02-21aio: push aio_context_acquire/release down to dispatchingPaolo Bonzini1-0/+2
The AioContext data structures are now protected by list_lock and/or they are walked with FOREACH_RCU primitives. There is no need anymore to acquire the AioContext for the entire duration of aio_dispatch. Instead, just acquire it before and after invoking the callbacks. The next step is then to push it further down. Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170213135235.12274-12-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-02-21aio: introduce aio_co_schedule and aio_co_wakePaolo Bonzini1-0/+65
aio_co_wake provides the infrastructure to start a coroutine on a "home" AioContext. It will be used by CoMutex and CoQueue, so that coroutines don't jump from one context to another when they go to sleep on a mutex or waitqueue. However, it can also be used as a more efficient alternative to one-shot bottom halves, and saves the effort of tracking which AioContext a coroutine is running on. aio_co_schedule is the part of aio_co_wake that starts a coroutine on a remove AioContext, but it is also useful to implement e.g. bdrv_set_aio_context callbacks. The implementation of aio_co_schedule is based on a lock-free multiple-producer, single-consumer queue. The multiple producers use cmpxchg to add to a LIFO stack. The consumer (a per-AioContext bottom half) grabs all items added so far, inverts the list to make it FIFO, and goes through it one item at a time until it's empty. The data structure was inspired by OSv, which uses it in the very code we'll "port" to QEMU for the thread-safe CoMutex. Most of the new code is really tests. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170213135235.12274-3-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2017-02-21block: move AioContext, QEMUTimer, main-loop to libqemuutilPaolo Bonzini1-0/+423
AioContext is fairly self contained, the only dependency is QEMUTimer but that in turn doesn't need anything else. So move them out of block-obj-y to avoid introducing a dependency from io/ to block-obj-y. main-loop and its dependency iohandler also need to be moved, because later in this series io/ will call iohandler_get_aio_context. [Changed copyright "the QEMU team" to "other QEMU contributors" as suggested by Daniel Berrange and agreed by Paolo. --Stefan] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170213135235.12274-2-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>