monitor_qmp_dispatcher_co() runs in the iohandler AioContext that is not
polled during nested event loops. The coroutine currently reschedules
itself in the main loop's qemu_aio_context AioContext, which is polled
during nested event loops. One known problem is that QMP device-add
calls drain_call_rcu(), which temporarily drops the BQL, leading to all
sorts of havoc like other vCPU threads re-entering device emulation code
while another vCPU thread is waiting in device emulation code with
aio_poll().
Paolo Bonzini suggested running non-coroutine QMP handlers in the
iohandler AioContext. This avoids trouble with nested event loops. His
original idea was to move coroutine rescheduling to
monitor_qmp_dispatch(), but I resorted to moving it to qmp_dispatch()
because we don't know if the QMP handler needs to run in coroutine
context in monitor_qmp_dispatch(). monitor_qmp_dispatch() would have
been nicer since it's associated with the monitor implementation and not
as general as qmp_dispatch(), which is also used by qemu-ga.
A number of qemu-iotests need updated .out files because the order of
QMP events vs QMP responses has changed.
Solves Issue #1933.
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Fixes: 7bed89958b ("device_core: use drain_call_rcu in in qmp_device_add")
Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215192
Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2214985
Buglink: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-17369
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20240118144823.1497953-4-stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
232 is marked as generic, but commit 12efe428c9 added code that assumes
qcow2. What the new test really needs is backing files and support for
updating the backing file link (.bdrv_change_backing_file).
Split the non-generic code into a new test case 247 and make it work
with qed, too.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Stefan Hajnoczi
Kevin Wolf