From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 17/19] cpus: clear exit_request in qemu_process_cpu_events
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 12:12:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250908101241.2110068-18-pbonzini@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250908101241.2110068-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Make the code common to all accelerators: after seeing cpu->exit_request
set to true, accelerator code needs to reach qemu_process_cpu_events_common().
So for the common cases where they use qemu_process_cpu_events(), go ahead and
clear it in there. Note that the cheap qatomic_set() is enough because
at this point the thread has taken the BQL; qatomic_set_mb() is not needed.
In particular, this is the ordering of the communication between
I/O and vCPU threads is always the same.
In the I/O thread:
(a) store other memory locations that will be checked if cpu->exit_request
or cpu->interrupt_request is 1 (for example cpu->stop or cpu->work_list
for cpu->exit_request)
(b) cpu_exit(): store-release cpu->exit_request, or
(b) cpu_interrupt(): store-release cpu->interrupt_request
>>> at this point, cpu->halt_cond is broadcast and the BQL released
(c) do the accelerator-specific kick (e.g. write icount_decr for TCG,
pthread_kill for KVM, etc.)
In the vCPU thread instead the opposite order is respected:
(c) the accelerator's execution loop exits thanks to the kick
(b) then the inner execution loop checks cpu->interrupt_request
and cpu->exit_request. If needed cpu->interrupt_request is
converted into cpu->exit_request when work is needed outside
the execution loop.
(a) then the other memory locations are checked. Some may need to
be read under the BQL, but the vCPU thread may also take other
locks (e.g. for queued work items) or none at all.
qatomic_set_mb() would only be needed if the halt sleep was done
outside the BQL (though in that case, cpu->exit_request probably
would be replaced by a QemuEvent or something like that).
Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
accel/kvm/kvm-all.c | 2 --
accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c | 1 -
accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops-rr.c | 9 +++++++--
accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops.c | 2 --
accel/tcg/user-exec.c | 1 +
system/cpus.c | 1 +
target/i386/nvmm/nvmm-all.c | 2 --
target/i386/whpx/whpx-all.c | 2 --
8 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
index e4167d94b4f..d13156bee87 100644
--- a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
+++ b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
@@ -3155,7 +3155,6 @@ int kvm_cpu_exec(CPUState *cpu)
trace_kvm_cpu_exec();
if (kvm_arch_process_async_events(cpu)) {
- qatomic_set(&cpu->exit_request, 0);
return EXCP_HLT;
}
@@ -3345,7 +3344,6 @@ int kvm_cpu_exec(CPUState *cpu)
vm_stop(RUN_STATE_INTERNAL_ERROR);
}
- qatomic_set(&cpu->exit_request, 0);
return ret;
}
diff --git a/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c b/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c
index 3ae545e888f..ad94f96b252 100644
--- a/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c
@@ -872,7 +872,6 @@ static inline bool cpu_handle_interrupt(CPUState *cpu,
* The corresponding store-release is in cpu_exit.
*/
if (unlikely(qatomic_load_acquire(&cpu->exit_request)) || icount_exit_request(cpu)) {
- qatomic_set(&cpu->exit_request, 0);
if (cpu->exception_index == -1) {
cpu->exception_index = EXCP_INTERRUPT;
}
diff --git a/accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops-rr.c b/accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops-rr.c
index 813b313859a..7dbdba7b514 100644
--- a/accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops-rr.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops-rr.c
@@ -293,8 +293,13 @@ static void *rr_cpu_thread_fn(void *arg)
/* Does not need a memory barrier because a spurious wakeup is okay. */
qatomic_set(&rr_current_cpu, NULL);
- if (cpu && qatomic_read(&cpu->exit_request)) {
- qatomic_set_mb(&cpu->exit_request, 0);
+ if (cpu) {
+ /*
+ * This could even reset exit_request for all CPUs, but in practice
+ * races between CPU exits and changes to "cpu" are so rare that
+ * there's no advantage in doing so.
+ */
+ qatomic_set(&cpu->exit_request, false);
}
if (icount_enabled() && all_cpu_threads_idle()) {
diff --git a/accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops.c b/accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops.c
index 1f662a9c745..3bd98005042 100644
--- a/accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/tcg-accel-ops.c
@@ -82,8 +82,6 @@ int tcg_cpu_exec(CPUState *cpu)
ret = cpu_exec(cpu);
cpu_exec_end(cpu);
- qatomic_set_mb(&cpu->exit_request, 0);
-
return ret;
}
diff --git a/accel/tcg/user-exec.c b/accel/tcg/user-exec.c
index 65f5da6c506..916f18754f6 100644
--- a/accel/tcg/user-exec.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/user-exec.c
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ void qemu_cpu_kick(CPUState *cpu)
void qemu_process_cpu_events(CPUState *cpu)
{
+ qatomic_set(&cpu->exit_request, false);
process_queued_cpu_work(cpu);
}
diff --git a/system/cpus.c b/system/cpus.c
index fd804e07327..aa7bfcf56e5 100644
--- a/system/cpus.c
+++ b/system/cpus.c
@@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ void qemu_process_cpu_events(CPUState *cpu)
{
bool slept = false;
+ qatomic_set(&cpu->exit_request, false);
while (cpu_thread_is_idle(cpu)) {
if (!slept) {
slept = true;
diff --git a/target/i386/nvmm/nvmm-all.c b/target/i386/nvmm/nvmm-all.c
index 7e36c42fbb4..ed424251673 100644
--- a/target/i386/nvmm/nvmm-all.c
+++ b/target/i386/nvmm/nvmm-all.c
@@ -817,8 +817,6 @@ nvmm_vcpu_loop(CPUState *cpu)
cpu_exec_end(cpu);
bql_lock();
- qatomic_set(&cpu->exit_request, false);
-
return ret < 0;
}
diff --git a/target/i386/whpx/whpx-all.c b/target/i386/whpx/whpx-all.c
index 00fb7e23100..2a85168ed51 100644
--- a/target/i386/whpx/whpx-all.c
+++ b/target/i386/whpx/whpx-all.c
@@ -2050,8 +2050,6 @@ static int whpx_vcpu_run(CPUState *cpu)
whpx_last_vcpu_stopping(cpu);
}
- qatomic_set(&cpu->exit_request, false);
-
return ret < 0;
}
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-08 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-08 10:12 [PATCH v3 00/19] accel, cpus: clean up cpu->exit_request Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 01/19] target/ppc: limit cpu_interrupt_exittb to system emulation Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 02/19] target/sparc: limit cpu_check_irqs " Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 03/19] target/i386: limit a20 " Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 04/19] target-arm: remove uses of cpu_interrupt() for user-mode emulation Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 05/19] user-exec: remove cpu_interrupt() stub Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 06/19] treewide: clear bits of cs->interrupt_request with cpu_reset_interrupt() Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 07/19] cpu-common: use atomic access for interrupt_request Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 08/19] cpus: document that qemu_cpu_kick() can be used for BQL-less operation Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 09/19] accel: use store_release/load_acquire for cross-thread exit_request Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 10/19] accel: use atomic accesses for exit_request Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 11/19] accel/tcg: create a thread-kick function for TCG Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 12/19] accel/tcg: inline cpu_exit() Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 13/19] cpus: remove TCG-ism from cpu_exit() Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 14/19] cpus: properly kick CPUs out of inner execution loop Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-10 7:13 ` Richard Henderson
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 15/19] treewide: rename qemu_wait_io_event/qemu_wait_io_event_common Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-10 7:14 ` Richard Henderson
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 16/19] bsd-user, linux-user: introduce qemu_process_cpu_events Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 18/19] accel: make all calls to qemu_process_cpu_events look the same Paolo Bonzini
2025-09-08 10:12 ` [PATCH 19/19] tcg/user: do not set exit_request gratuitously Paolo Bonzini
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