A TCG vCPU doing a busy loop systematicaly hangs the QEMU monitor
if the user passes 'device_add' without argument. This is because
drain_cpu_all() which is called from qmp_device_add() cannot return
if readers don't exit read-side critical sections. That is typically
what busy-looping TCG vCPUs do:
int cpu_exec(CPUState *cpu)
{
[...]
rcu_read_lock();
[...]
while (!cpu_handle_exception(cpu, &ret)) {
// Busy loop keeps vCPU here
}
[...]
rcu_read_unlock();
return ret;
}
For MTTCG, have all vCPU threads register a force_rcu notifier that will
kick them out of the loop using async_run_on_cpu(). The notifier is called
with the rcu_registry_lock mutex held, using async_run_on_cpu() ensures
there are no deadlocks.
For RR, a single thread runs all vCPUs. Just register a single notifier
that kicks the current vCPU to the next one.
For MTTCG:
Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
For RR:
Suggested-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Fixes: 7bed89958b ("device_core: use drain_call_rcu in in qmp_device_add")
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/650
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20211109183523.47726-3-groug@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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