Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu_system_reset_request() broken w.r.t BQL locking regime

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

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 05/07/2017 18:14, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>   - Guest resets board, writing to some hw address (e.g.
>>>     arm_sysctl_write)
>>>   - This triggers qemu_system_reset_request(SHUTDOWN_CAUSE_GUEST_RESET)
>>>   - We exit iowrite and drop the BQL
>>>   - vl.c schedules qemu_system_reset->qemu_devices_reset...arm_cpu_reset
>>>   - we start writing new values to CPU env while still in TCG code
>>>   - CHAOS!
>>>
>>> The general solution for this is to ensure these sort of tasks are done
>>> with safe work in the CPUs context when we know nothing else is running.
>>> It seems this is probably best done by modifying
>>> qemu_system_reset_request to queue work up on current_cpu and execute it
>>> as safe work - I don't think the vl.c thread should ever be messing
>>> about with calling cpu_reset directly.
>> My first thought is that qemu_system_reset() should absolutely
>> stop every CPU (or other runnable thing like a DMA agent) in the
>> system. The semantics are basically "like a power cycle", so
>> that should include a complete stop of the world. (Is this
>> what vm_stop() does? Dunno...)
>
> I agree, it should do vm_stop() as the first thing and, if applicable,
> vm_start() as the last thing, similar to e.g. savevm.

Why not use our async_safe_run_on_cpu mechanism for it? Certainly I
wouldn't expect the vCPU hitting it's own reset button to need to be
graceful about it.

>
> In fact, the above bug probably has existed forever in KVM.
>
> Paolo


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Alex Bennée