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

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 02/11/2012 11:32, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
> 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.

np, will do so now.

Paolo