Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-2.8-rc4 is broken

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Pavel Dovgalyuk <dovgaluk@ispras.ru> writes:

>> From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefanha@gmail.com]
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Pavel Dovgalyuk <dovgaluk@ispras.ru> wrote:
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefanha@gmail.com]
>> >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Pavel Dovgalyuk <dovgaluk@ispras.ru> wrote:
>> >> >> From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefanha@gmail.com]
>> >> >> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:45:44AM +0300, Pavel Dovgalyuk wrote:
>> >> >> > It also fails much earlier when I enable logs with "-d int -D log".
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> Looks like a heap corruption bug since free() is failing.
>> >> >
>> >> > Seems to be a race condition.
>> >> > When I add logs into invalidate_page_bitmap, the bug disappears.
>> >> > It seems that someone tries to free the same page bitmap twice and simultaneously.
>> >>
>> >> Does the following workaround prevent the crashes?
>> >>
>> >> -global apic-common.vapic=off
>> >
>> > Yes, this option helps.
>> > Thank you.
>>
>> Good news.  This can be fixed in 2.8.1 once someone finds a solution.
>
> It seems that something still goes wrong.
> I'm using this workaround, but there is a kind of deadlock in translation.
> call_rcu_thread hangs at some moment in qemu_event_wait.
>
> As far as I understand, it is used by QHT in translate-all.c.
> I can't get more information yet, because logging makes everything too slow.

There are a number of users of RCU bit for QHT I think it only gets
activated when it needs to re-size its hash table on insertion of new
TranslationBlocks.

Can you get a backtrace of all threads when it deadlocks?

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Alex Bennée