Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1706296] [NEW] Booting NT 4 disk causes /home/rjones/d/qemu/cpus.c:1580:qemu_mutex_lock_iothread: assertion failed: (!qemu_mutex_iothread_locked())

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Alex Bennée (alex.bennee@linaro.org) wrote:
> 
> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On 25.07.2017 11:30, Richard Jones wrote:
> >> ERROR:/home/rjones/d/qemu/cpus.c:1580:qemu_mutex_lock_iothread: assertion failed: (!qemu_mutex_iothread_locked())
> >> Aborted (core dumped)
> >>
> >> The stack trace in the failing thread is:
> >>
> >> Thread 4 (Thread 0x7fffb0418700 (LWP 21979)):
> >> #0  0x00007fffdd89b64b in raise () at /lib64/libc.so.6
> >> #1  0x00007fffdd89d450 in abort () at /lib64/libc.so.6
> >> #2  0x00007fffdff8c75d in g_assertion_message () at /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> >> #3  0x00007fffdff8c7ea in g_assertion_message_expr ()
> >>     at /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> >> #4  0x00005555557a7d00 in qemu_mutex_lock_iothread ()
> >>     at /home/rjones/d/qemu/cpus.c:1580
> >> #5  0x00005555557cb429 in io_writex (env=env@entry=0x555556751400, iotlbentry=0x55555675b678,
> >>     iotlbentry@entry=0x5aaaaae40c918, val=val@entry=8, addr=addr@entry=2148532220, retaddr=0, retaddr@entry=93825011136120, size=size@entry=4)
> >>     at /home/rjones/d/qemu/accel/tcg/cputlb.c:795
> >> #6  0x00005555557ce0f7 in io_writel (retaddr=93825011136120, addr=2148532220, val=8, index=255, mmu_idx=21845, env=0x555556751400)
> >>     at /home/rjones/d/qemu/softmmu_template.h:265
> >> #7  0x00005555557ce0f7 in helper_le_stl_mmu (env=env@entry=0x555556751400, addr=addr@entry=2148532220, val=val@entry=8, oi=<optimized out>, retaddr=93825011136120, retaddr@entry=0) at /home/rjones/d/qemu/softmmu_template.h:300
> >> #8  0x000055555587c0a4 in cpu_stl_kernel_ra (env=0x555556751400, ptr=2148532220, v=8, retaddr=0) at /home/rjones/d/qemu/include/exec/cpu_ldst_template.h:182
> >> #9  0x0000555555882610 in do_interrupt_protected (is_hw=<optimized
> >> out>, next_eip=<optimized out>, error_code=2, is_int=<optimized out>,
> >> intno=<optimized out>, env=0x555556751400) at
> >> /home/rjones/d/qemu/target/i386/seg_helper.c:758
> 
> Erm, what is happening here? I think the seg_helper is writing a stack
> frame but for some reason to io memory, triggering the BQL. This just
> seems weird.

addr=2148532220 doesn't seem fun; that's 800FFFFC maybe a missing mask
somewhere?
(or cpu in completely the wrong mode).

Dave

> 
> >> #10 0x0000555555882610 in do_interrupt_all (cpu=cpu@entry=0x555556749170, intno=<optimized out>, is_int=<optimized out>, error_code=2, next_eip=<optimized out>, is_hw=is_hw@entry=0) at /home/rjones/d/qemu/target/i386/seg_helper.c:1252
> >> #11 0x00005555558839d3 in x86_cpu_do_interrupt (cs=0x555556749170)
> >>     at /home/rjones/d/qemu/target/i386/seg_helper.c:1298
> >> #12 0x00005555557d2ccb in cpu_handle_exception (ret=<synthetic pointer>, cpu=0x5555566a4590) at /home/rjones/d/qemu/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c:465
> >> #13 0x00005555557d2ccb in cpu_exec (cpu=cpu@entry=0x555556749170)
> >>     at /home/rjones/d/qemu/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c:670
> >> #14 0x00005555557a855a in tcg_cpu_exec (cpu=0x555556749170)
> >>     at /home/rjones/d/qemu/cpus.c:1270
> >> #15 0x00005555557a855a in qemu_tcg_rr_cpu_thread_fn (arg=<optimized out>)
> >>     at /home/rjones/d/qemu/cpus.c:1365
> >> #16 0x00007fffddc3d36d in start_thread () at /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> >> #17 0x00007fffdd975b9f in clone () at /lib64/libc.so.6
> >
> > Looks like the iothread lock is taken twice here, one time in
> > accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c around line 465 and one time in
> > accel/tcg/cputlb.c:795 again.
> >
> > If I've get that right, the locks have been added by this commit here:
> >
> >  8d04fb55dec381bc5105cb47f29d918e579e8cbd
> >  tcg: drop global lock during TCG code execution
> >
> > so this looks related to the MTTCG reworks that happened recently. I
> > hope one of the MTTCG gurus has some spare time to look at this...
> 
> I think I really need an x86 guru to explain what just happened.
> 
> --
> Alex Bennée
> 
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK