Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] Fix a deadlock case in the CPU hotplug flow

[David Gibson]

On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 11:19:04AM -0300, Jose Ricardo Ziviani wrote:
> We need to set cs->halted to 1 before calling ppc_set_compat. The reason
> is that ppc_set_compat kicks up the new thread created to manage the
> hotplugged KVM virtual CPU and the code drives directly to KVM_RUN
> ioctl. When cs->halted is 1, the code:
> 
> int kvm_cpu_exec(CPUState *cpu)
> ...
>      if (kvm_arch_process_async_events(cpu)) {
>          atomic_set(&cpu->exit_request, 0);
>          return EXCP_HLT;
>      }
> ...
> 
> returns before it reaches KVM_RUN, giving time to the main thread to
> finish its job. Otherwise we can fall in a deadlock because the KVM
> thread will issue the KVM_RUN ioctl while the main thread is setting up
> KVM registers. Depending on how these jobs are scheduled we'll end up
> freezing QEMU.
> 
> The following output shows kvm_vcpu_ioctl sleeping because it cannot get
> the mutex and never will.
> PS: kvm_vcpu_ioctl was triggered kvm_set_one_reg - compat_pvr.
> 
> STATE: TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE|TASK_WAKEKILL
> 
> PID: 61564  TASK: c000003e981e0780  CPU: 48  COMMAND: "qemu-system-ppc"
>  #0 [c000003e982679a0] __schedule at c000000000b10a44
>  #1 [c000003e98267a60] schedule at c000000000b113a8
>  #2 [c000003e98267a90] schedule_preempt_disabled at c000000000b11910
>  #3 [c000003e98267ab0] __mutex_lock at c000000000b132ec
>  #4 [c000003e98267bc0] kvm_vcpu_ioctl at c00800000ea03140 [kvm]
>  #5 [c000003e98267d20] do_vfs_ioctl at c000000000407d30
>  #6 [c000003e98267dc0] ksys_ioctl at c000000000408674
>  #7 [c000003e98267e10] sys_ioctl at c0000000004086f8
>  #8 [c000003e98267e30] system_call at c00000000000b488
> 
> crash> struct -x kvm.vcpus 0xc000003da0000000
> vcpus = {0xc000003db4880000, 0xc000003d52b80000, 0xc0000039e9c80000, 
> 0xc000003d0e200000, 0xc000003d58280000, 0x0, 0x0, ...}
> 
> crash> struct -x kvm_vcpu.mutex.owner 0xc000003d58280000
>   mutex.owner = {
>     counter = 0xc000003a23a5c881 <- flag 1: waiters
>   },
> 
> crash> bt 0xc000003a23a5c880
> PID: 61579  TASK: c000003a23a5c880  CPU: 9   COMMAND: "CPU 4/KVM"
> (active)
> 
> crash> struct -x kvm_vcpu.mutex.wait_list 0xc000003d58280000
>   mutex.wait_list = {
>     next = 0xc000003e98267b10,
>     prev = 0xc000003e98267b10
>   },
> 
> crash> struct -x mutex_waiter.task 0xc000003e98267b10
>   task = 0xc000003e981e0780
> 
> The following command-line was used to reproduce the problem (note: gdb
> and trace can change the results).
> 
>  $ qemu-ppc/build/ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu host \
>      -enable-kvm -m 4096 \
>      -smp 4,maxcpus=8,sockets=1,cores=2,threads=4 \
>      -display none -nographic \
>      -drive file=disk1.qcow2,format=qcow2
>  ...
>  (qemu) device_add host-spapr-cpu-core,core-id=4
> [no interaction is possible after it, only SIGKILL to take the terminal
> back]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jose Ricardo Ziviani <address@hidden>

Applied, thanks.

> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> index 876f0b3d9d..a73b244a3f 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.c
> @@ -34,16 +34,16 @@ static void spapr_cpu_reset(void *opaque)
>  
>      cpu_reset(cs);
>  
> -    /* Set compatibility mode to match the boot CPU, which was either set
> -     * by the machine reset code or by CAS. This should never fail.
> -     */
> -    ppc_set_compat(cpu, POWERPC_CPU(first_cpu)->compat_pvr, &error_abort);
> -
>      /* All CPUs start halted.  CPU0 is unhalted from the machine level
>       * reset code and the rest are explicitly started up by the guest
>       * using an RTAS call */
>      cs->halted = 1;
>  
> +    /* Set compatibility mode to match the boot CPU, which was either set
> +     * by the machine reset code or by CAS. This should never fail.
> +     */
> +    ppc_set_compat(cpu, POWERPC_CPU(first_cpu)->compat_pvr, &error_abort);
> +
>      env->spr[SPR_HIOR] = 0;
>  
>      lpcr = env->spr[SPR_LPCR];

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