Re: [Qemu-arm] [BUG] qemu-system-arm/aarch64 QMP hangs after kernel boots

[Cleber Rosa]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Auger Eric" <address@hidden>
> To: "Cleber Rosa" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, "Peter Maydell" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2019 3:21:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [BUG] qemu-system-arm/aarch64 QMP hangs after kernel boots
> 
> Hi Cleber,
> 
> On 5/20/19 7:47 PM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is just a FIY about the following bug report:
> > 
> >  - https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1829779
> > 
> > And add some extra clarifications that I've tested extensively the
> > behavior of other targets (all that have a similar test under
> > tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py) and none exhibited the same
> > behavior.
> > 
> > Also, because qemu-system-arm and aarch64 sometimes fails on the very
> > first QMP command, the regular boot test sometimes will hang on a
> > "quit" command that happens when the test run its "tear down" and
> > attempts to cleanly shut down the "vm".
> > 
> > Let me know if I can be of any further help.
> 
> Thanks for reporting the problem. I hit the problem recently with
> device_del commands which did not seem to get any response on guest
> side. On my side, this happened erratically.
> 
> I will try to reproduce it again.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Eric
> 

I have an update on this.  Eric and myself attempted to zero in the
exact cause.  A few things we discovered:

 1) It has nothing to do with having a kernel running
 2) It has to do with having a chardev that is a server socket.  This
    test produces command line arguments such as:

   -chardev socket,id=console,path=<path>.sock,server,nowait \
   -serial chardev:console

 3) It doesn't seem to have a connection to the test infrastructure code
    (python/qemu/qmp/*), as a I made a number of experiments which
    yielded no differences in behavior.

So, the reproducer given at:

 
https://github.com/clebergnu/qemu/commit/c778e28c24030c4a36548b714293b319f4bf18df

Continues to be be valid (and continues to be limited to arm and aarch64).
Now, after a number of experiments, the following was found to be a 100%
reproducible *workaround*:

 
https://github.com/clebergnu/qemu/commit/e1713f3b91972ad57c089f276c54db3f3fa63423

That basically shutdowns the *console* socket before proceeding with further QMP
interaction.  The effectiveness of the workaround can be seen here:

 aarch64 command line:
  - https://travis-ci.org/clebergnu/qemu/jobs/535459499#L3633
 aarch64 QMP interaction:
  - https://travis-ci.org/clebergnu/qemu/jobs/535459499#L3663

 arm command line:
  - https://travis-ci.org/clebergnu/qemu/jobs/535459499#L3747
 arm QMP interaction:
  - https://travis-ci.org/clebergnu/qemu/jobs/535459499#L3767

I hope this provides a few more hints into the real issue.

Regards,
- Cleber.