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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2015-07-28 18:34:09 +0200
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2015-07-29 10:02:06 +0100
commitca96ac44dcd290566090b2435bc828fded356ad9 (patch)
treebdf284e97b877f7a9941ac6dd8537ba047677b70 /include
parenta076972a4d36381d610a854f0c336507650a1d34 (diff)
AioContext: force event loop iteration using BH
The notify_me optimization introduced in commit eabc97797310 ("AioContext: fix broken ctx->dispatching optimization") skips event_notifier_set() calls when the event loop thread is not blocked in ppoll(2). This optimization causes a deadlock if two aio_context_acquire() calls race. notify_me = 0 during the race so the winning thread can enter ppoll(2) unaware that the other thread is waiting its turn to acquire the AioContext. This patch forces ppoll(2) to return by scheduling a BH instead of calling aio_notify(). The following deadlock with virtio-blk dataplane is fixed: qemu ... -object iothread,id=iothread0 \ -drive if=none,id=drive0,file=test.img,... \ -device virtio-blk-pci,iothread=iothread0,drive=drive0 This command-line results in a hang early on without this patch. Thanks to Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> for investigating this bug with me. Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-id: 1438101249-25166-4-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com Message-Id: <1438014819-18125-3-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/block/aio.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/block/aio.h b/include/block/aio.h
index 9dd32e0f13..400b1b0020 100644
--- a/include/block/aio.h
+++ b/include/block/aio.h
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ struct AioContext {
bool notified;
EventNotifier notifier;
+ /* Scheduling this BH forces the event loop it iterate */
+ QEMUBH *notify_dummy_bh;
+
/* Thread pool for performing work and receiving completion callbacks */
struct ThreadPool *thread_pool;