Re: qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite loop

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2012-06-28 17:02, Peter Lieven wrote:
> On 28.06.2012 15:25, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-06-28 15:05, Peter Lieven wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> i debugged my initial problem further and found out that the problem
>>> happens to be that
>>> the main thread is stuck in pause_all_vcpus() on reset or quit commands
>>> in the monitor
>>> if one cpu is stuck in the do-while loop kvm_cpu_exec. If I modify the
>>> condition from while (ret == 0)
>>> to while ((ret == 0)&&  !env->stop); it works, but is this the right fix?
>>> "Quit" command seems to work, but on "Reset" the VM enterns pause state.
>> Before entering the wait loop in pause_all_vcpus, there are kicks sent
>> to all vcpus. Now we need to find out why some of those kicks apparently
>> don't reach the destination.
> can you explain shot what exactly these kicks do? does these kicks lead
> to leaving the kernel mode and returning to userspace?

Yes. A signal is sent, and KVM returns from the guest to userspace on
pending signals.

>> Again:
>>   - on which host kernels does this occur, and which change may have
>>     changed it?
> I do not see it in 3.0.0 and have also not seen it in 2.6.38. both
> the mainline 64-bit ubuntu-server kernels (for natty / oneiric 
> respectively).
> If I compile a more recent kvm-kmod 3.3 or 3.4 on these machines,
> it is no longer working.

I was asking for kernel 3.3 or 3.4 without kvm-kmod.

>>   - with which qemu-kvm version is it reproducible, and which commit
>>     introduced or fixed it?
> qemu-kvm-1.0.1 from sourceforge. to get into the scenario it
> is not sufficient to boot from an empty harddisk. to reproduce

Please also try qemu-kvm git to see if something fixed it there.

> i have use a live cd like ubuntu-server 12.04 and choose to
> boot from the first harddisk. i think the isolinux loader does
> not check for a valid bootsector and just executes what is found
> in sector 0. this leads to the mmio reads i posted and 100%
> cpu load (most spent in kernel). at that time the monitor/qmp
> is still responsible. if i sent a command that pauses all vcpus,
> the first cpu is looping in kvm_cpu_exec and the main thread
> is waiting. at that time the monitor stops responding.
> i have also seen this issue on very old windows 2000 servers
> where the system fails to power off and is just halted. maybe
> this is also a busy loop.
> 
> i will try to bisect this asap and let you know, maybe the above
> info helps you already to reproduce.

OK, thanks,

Jan

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