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2014-09-10thread-pool: Drop unnecessary includesMarkus Armbruster
Dragging block_int.h into a header is *not* nice. Fortunately, this is the only offender. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-08-15thread-pool: avoid deadlock in nested aio_poll() callsStefan Hajnoczi
The thread pool has a race condition if two elements complete before thread_pool_completion_bh() runs: If element A's callback waits for element B using aio_poll() it will deadlock since pool->completion_bh is not marked scheduled when the nested aio_poll() runs. Fix this by marking the BH scheduled while thread_pool_completion_bh() is executing. This way any nested aio_poll() loops will enter thread_pool_completion_bh() and complete the remaining elements. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-08-15thread-pool: avoid per-thread-pool EventNotifierStefan Hajnoczi
EventNotifier is implemented using an eventfd or pipe. It therefore consumes file descriptors, which can be limited by rlimits and should therefore be used sparingly. Switch from EventNotifier to QEMUBH in thread-pool.c. Originally EventNotifier was used because qemu_bh_schedule() was not thread-safe yet. Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-05-28aio: Fix use-after-free in cancellation pathFam Zheng
The current flow of canceling a thread from THREAD_ACTIVE state is: 1) Caller wants to cancel a request, so it calls thread_pool_cancel. 2) thread_pool_cancel waits on the conditional variable elem->check_cancel. 3) The worker thread changes state to THREAD_DONE once the task is done, and notifies elem->check_cancel to allow thread_pool_cancel to continue execution, and signals the notifier (pool->notifier) to allow callback function to be called later. But because of the global mutex, the notifier won't get processed until step 4) and 5) are done. 4) thread_pool_cancel continues, leaving the notifier signaled, it just returns to caller. 5) Caller thinks the request is already canceled successfully, so it releases any related data, such as freeing elem->common.opaque. 6) In the next main loop iteration, the notifier handler, event_notifier_ready, is called. It finds the canceled thread in THREAD_DONE state, so calls elem->common.cb, with an (likely) dangling opaque pointer. This is a use-after-free. Fix it by calling event_notifier_ready before leaving thread_pool_cancel. Test case update: This change will let cancel complete earlier than test-thread-pool.c expects, so update the code to check this case: if it's already done, done_cb sets .aiocb to NULL, skip calling bdrv_aio_cancel on them. Reported-by: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-03-09Add a 'name' parameter to qemu_thread_createDr. David Alan Gilbert
If enabled, set the thread name at creation (on GNU systems with pthread_set_np) Fix up all the callers with a thread name Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
2013-08-22aio / timers: Untangle include filesAlex Bligh
include/qemu/timer.h has no need to include main-loop.h and doing so causes an issue for the next patch. Unfortunately various files assume including timers.h will pull in main-loop.h. Untangle this mess. Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-08-19aio: drop io_flush argumentStefan Hajnoczi
The .io_flush() handler no longer exists and has no users. Drop the io_flush argument to aio_set_fd_handler() and related functions. The AioFlushEventNotifierHandler and AioFlushHandler typedefs are no longer used and are dropped too. Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-08-19thread-pool: drop thread_pool_active()Stefan Hajnoczi
.io_flush() is no longer called so drop thread_pool_active(). The block layer is the only thread-pool.c user and it already tracks in-flight requests, therefore we do not need thread_pool_active(). Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2013-03-15threadpool: drop global thread poolStefan Hajnoczi
Now that each AioContext has a ThreadPool and the main loop AioContext can be fetched with bdrv_get_aio_context(), we can eliminate the concept of a global thread pool from thread-pool.c. The submit functions must take a ThreadPool* argument. block/raw-posix.c and block/raw-win32.c use aio_get_thread_pool(bdrv_get_aio_context(bs)) to fetch the main loop's ThreadPool. tests/test-thread-pool.c must be updated to reflect the new thread_pool_submit() function prototypes. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2013-03-15threadpool: add thread_pool_new() and thread_pool_free()Stefan Hajnoczi
ThreadPool is tied to an AioContext through its event notifier, which dictates in which AioContext the work item's callback function will be invoked. In order to support multiple AioContexts we need to support multiple ThreadPool instances. This patch adds the new/free functions. The free function deserves special attention because it quiesces remaining worker threads. This requires a new condition variable and a "stopping" flag to let workers know they should terminate once idle. We never needed to do this before since the global threadpool was not explicitly destroyed until process termination. Also stash the AioContext pointer in ThreadPool so that we can call aio_set_event_notifier() in thread_pool_free(). We didn't need to hold onto AioContext previously since there was no free function. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2013-03-15threadpool: move globals into struct ThreadPoolStefan Hajnoczi
Move global variables into a struct so multiple thread pools can be supported in the future. This patch does not change thread-pool.h interfaces. There is still a global thread pool and it is not yet possible to create/destroy individual thread pools. Moving the variables into a struct first makes later patches easier to review. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-12-19misc: move include files to include/qemu/Paolo Bonzini
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-12-19block: move include files to include/block/Paolo Bonzini
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-11-14aio: rename AIOPool to AIOCBInfoStefan Hajnoczi
Now that AIOPool no longer keeps a freelist, it isn't really a "pool" anymore. Rename it to AIOCBInfo and make it const since it no longer needs to be modified. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2012-10-31threadpool: do not take lock in event_notifier_readyPaolo Bonzini
The ordering is: worker thread consumer thread ------------------------------------------------------------------- write ret event_notifier_test_and_clear wmb() read state write state rmb() event_notifier_set read ret Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2012-10-31aio: add generic thread-pool facilityPaolo Bonzini
Add a generic thread-pool. The code is roughly based on posix-aio-compat.c, with some changes, especially the following: - use QemuSemaphore instead of QemuCond; - separate the state of the thread from the return code of the worker function. The return code is totally opaque for the thread pool; - do not busy wait when doing cancellation. A more generic threadpool (but still specific to I/O so that in the future it can use special scheduling classes or PI mutexes) can have many uses: it allows more flexibility in raw-posix.c and can more easily be extended to Win32, and it will also be used to do an msync of the persistent bitmap. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>