tree e454c18e9dcf2a5eacc960d6997986b0a52670fc
parent ef149763a8fcce70b85dfda27cc1222ecf765750
author Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> 1636482923 +0100
committer Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> 1636546815 +0100

accel/tcg: Register a force_rcu notifier

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: 7bed89958bfb ("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>