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migration: avoid recursive AioContext locking in save_vmstate() 

AioContext was designed to allow nested acquire/release calls.  It uses
a recursive mutex so callers don't need to worry about nesting...or so
we thought.

BDRV_POLL_WHILE() is used to wait for block I/O requests.  It releases
the AioContext temporarily around aio_poll().  This gives IOThreads a
chance to acquire the AioContext to process I/O completions.

It turns out that recursive locking and BDRV_POLL_WHILE() don't mix.
BDRV_POLL_WHILE() only releases the AioContext once, so the IOThread
will not be able to acquire the AioContext if it was acquired
multiple times.

Instead of trying to release AioContext n times in BDRV_POLL_WHILE(),
this patch simply avoids nested locking in save_vmstate().  It's the
simplest fix and we should step back to consider the big picture with
all the recent changes to block layer threading.

This patch is the final fix to solve 'savevm' hanging with -object
iothread.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Stefan Hajnoczi 2017-05-22 14:57:03 +01:00 committed by Kevin Wolf
parent ea17c9d20d
commit 17e2a4a47d
1 changed files with 11 additions and 1 deletions
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migration/savevm.c
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@ -2144,6 +2144,14 @@ int save_snapshot(const char *name, Error **errp)
goto the_end;
}
/* The bdrv_all_create_snapshot() call that follows acquires the AioContext
* for itself. BDRV_POLL_WHILE() does not support nested locking because
* it only releases the lock once. Therefore synchronous I/O will deadlock
* unless we release the AioContext before bdrv_all_create_snapshot().
*/
aio_context_release(aio_context);
aio_context = NULL;
ret = bdrv_all_create_snapshot(sn, bs, vm_state_size, &bs);
if (ret < 0) {
error_setg(errp, "Error while creating snapshot on '%s'",
@ -2154,7 +2162,9 @@ int save_snapshot(const char *name, Error **errp)
ret = 0;
the_end:
aio_context_release(aio_context);
if (aio_context) {
aio_context_release(aio_context);
}
if (saved_vm_running) {
vm_start();
}