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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite
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Jan Kiszka |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite loop |
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Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:21:59 +0200 |
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On 2012-08-19 11:42, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/17/2012 06:04 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>
>>>> Can anyone imagine that such a barrier may actually be required? If it
>>>> is currently possible that env->stop is evaluated before we called into
>>>> sigtimedwait in qemu_kvm_eat_signals, then we could actually eat the
>>>> signal without properly processing its reason (stop).
>>
>> Should not be required (TM): Both signal eating / stop checking and stop
>> setting / signal generation happens under the BQL, thus the ordering
>> must not make a difference here.
>
> Agree.
>
>
>> Don't see where we could lose a signal. Maybe due to a subtle memory
>> corruption that sets thread_kicked to non-zero, preventing the kicking
>> this way.
>
> Cannot be ruled out, yet too much of a coincidence.
>
> Could be a kernel bug (either in kvm or elsewhere), we've had several
> before in this area.
>
> Is this reproducible?
Not for me. Peter only hit it very rarely, Peter obviously more easily.
Jan
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite loop, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/08/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/08/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite loop, Avi Kivity, 2012/08/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite loop,
Jan Kiszka <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite loop, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/08/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite loop, Peter Lieven, 2012/08/22