Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 15/39] vl: init main loop earlier

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

On 2012-11-02 10:55, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 02/11/2012 08:26, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
>> Can we move os_daemonize before that, or what are its dependencies? I
>> have an increasingly bad feeling about this code shuffling.
> 
> Moving os_daemonize too early ruins error messages.  I would just
> pull qemu_mutex_lock_iothread later, even just before cpu_exec_init_all.
> Something like this (untested):
> 
> diff --git a/main-loop.c b/main-loop.c
> index e43c7c8..07c4b84 100644
> --- a/main-loop.c
> +++ b/main-loop.c
> @@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ int qemu_init_main_loop(void)
>      init_clocks();
>      init_timer_alarm();
>  
> -    qemu_mutex_lock_iothread();
>      ret = qemu_signal_init();
>      if (ret) {
>          return ret;
> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> index 99681da..210d525 100644
> --- a/vl.c
> +++ b/vl.c
> @@ -3631,13 +3631,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>      }
>  #endif
>  
> -    os_daemonize();
> -
> -    if (pid_file && qemu_create_pidfile(pid_file) != 0) {
> -        os_pidfile_error();
> -        exit(1);
> -    }
> -
>      /* init the memory */
>      if (ram_size == 0) {
>          ram_size = DEFAULT_RAM_SIZE * 1024 * 1024;
> @@ -3682,11 +3675,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>  
>      os_set_line_buffering();
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SPICE
> -    /* spice needs the timers to be initialized by this point */
> -    qemu_spice_init();
> -#endif
> -
>      if (icount_option && (kvm_enabled() || xen_enabled())) {
>          fprintf(stderr, "-icount is not allowed with kvm or xen\n");
>          exit(1);
> @@ -3709,6 +3697,20 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>          }
>      }
>  
> +    os_daemonize();
> +
> +    if (pid_file && qemu_create_pidfile(pid_file) != 0) {
> +        os_pidfile_error();
> +        exit(1);
> +    }
> +
> +    qemu_mutex_lock_iothread();
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SPICE
> +    /* spice needs timers & threads to be initialized by this point */
> +    qemu_spice_init();
> +#endif
> +
>      cpu_exec_init_all();
>  
>      bdrv_init_with_whitelist();
> 

Would have been too easy:

# qemu-system-x86_64 -daemonize
gettime: Invalid argument
Internal timer error: aborting

Haven't looked at details yet.

Jan

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