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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Lieven <pl@dlh.net>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: segmentation fault in qemu-kvm-0.14.0
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:44:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D77680C.2030908@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D77629A.204@redhat.com>

On 2011-03-09 12:20, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/09/2011 08:37 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> It's probably worth validating that the iothread lock is
>> always held when qemu_set_fd_handler2 is invoked to confirm this race
>> theory, adding something like
>>
>> assert(pthread_mutex_trylock(&qemu_mutex) != 0);
>> (that's for qemu-kvm only)
> 
> Alternatively, iohandlers could be a(nother) good place to start
> introducing fine-grained locks or rwlocks.

Yeah, could be a good idea. It's a fairly confined area here that needs
protection.

Jan

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Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Lieven <pl@dlh.net>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: segmentation fault in qemu-kvm-0.14.0
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:44:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D77680C.2030908@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D77629A.204@redhat.com>

On 2011-03-09 12:20, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/09/2011 08:37 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> It's probably worth validating that the iothread lock is
>> always held when qemu_set_fd_handler2 is invoked to confirm this race
>> theory, adding something like
>>
>> assert(pthread_mutex_trylock(&qemu_mutex) != 0);
>> (that's for qemu-kvm only)
> 
> Alternatively, iohandlers could be a(nother) good place to start
> introducing fine-grained locks or rwlocks.

Yeah, could be a good idea. It's a fairly confined area here that needs
protection.

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-09 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-08 22:53 segmentation fault in qemu-kvm-0.14.0 Peter Lieven
2011-03-08 22:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Lieven
2011-03-09  7:13 ` Corentin Chary
2011-03-09  7:26 ` Stefan Weil
2011-03-09  7:26   ` Stefan Weil
2011-03-09  7:39   ` Michael Tokarev
2011-03-09  7:39     ` Michael Tokarev
2011-03-09  9:22     ` Stefan Weil
2011-03-09  9:22       ` Stefan Weil
2011-03-09 10:00   ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 10:00     ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-15 12:53   ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-15 12:53     ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-15 18:52     ` Stefan Weil
2011-03-15 18:52       ` Stefan Weil
2011-03-09  7:37 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09  7:37   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09  8:50   ` Corentin Chary
2011-03-09  9:04     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09  9:54       ` Corentin Chary
2011-03-09  9:58         ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09 10:02           ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09 10:06             ` Corentin Chary
2011-03-09 10:12               ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09 10:14                 ` Corentin Chary
2011-03-09 10:17                   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09 10:41                     ` [PATCH] vnc: threaded server depends on io-thread Corentin Chary
2011-03-09 10:41                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Corentin Chary
2011-03-09 10:50                       ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 10:50                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 10:57                         ` Corentin Chary
2011-03-09 10:57                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Corentin Chary
2011-03-09 11:05                           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-09 11:05                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-09 11:25                             ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09 11:25                               ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09 11:32                               ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 11:32                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 11:33                                 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09 11:33                                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09 11:42                       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09 11:42                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09 12:50                         ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 12:50                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 13:21                         ` [PATCH v2] " Corentin Chary
2011-03-09 13:21                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Corentin Chary
2011-03-09 13:42                           ` Corentin Chary
2011-03-09 13:42                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Corentin Chary
2011-03-09 13:51                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-09 13:51                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-09 13:59                             ` Corentin Chary
2011-03-09 13:59                               ` [Qemu-devel] " Corentin Chary
2011-03-10 12:59                         ` [PATCH 1/2] sockets: add qemu_socketpair() Corentin Chary
2011-03-10 12:59                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Corentin Chary
2011-03-10 12:59                         ` [PATCH 2/2] vnc: don't mess up with iohandlers in the vnc thread Corentin Chary
2011-03-10 12:59                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Corentin Chary
2011-03-10 13:06                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-10 13:06                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-10 13:45                             ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-10 13:45                               ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2011-03-10 13:54                               ` Corentin Chary
2011-03-10 13:54                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Corentin Chary
2011-03-10 13:58                                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-10 13:58                                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-10 13:56                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-10 13:56                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-10 13:47                           ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-10 13:47                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Lieven
2011-03-10 15:13                         ` [PATCH v5] " Corentin Chary
2011-03-10 15:13                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Corentin Chary
2011-03-14  9:19                           ` Corentin Chary
2011-03-14  9:19                             ` [Qemu-devel] " Corentin Chary
2011-03-14  9:55                             ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-14  9:55                               ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Lieven
2011-03-15 16:55                             ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-15 16:55                               ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Lieven
2011-03-15 18:07                               ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-15 18:07                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 10:02   ` segmentation fault in qemu-kvm-0.14.0 Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 10:02     ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 10:16   ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 10:16     ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 10:20     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09 10:20       ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-03-09 10:31       ` Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 10:31         ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Lieven
2011-03-09 11:20   ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-09 11:20     ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-09 11:44     ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2011-03-09 11:44       ` Jan Kiszka

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