Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm-1.0.1 - unable to exit if vcpu is in infinite loop

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
> On 2012-08-19 11:42, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 08/17/2012 06:04 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Can anyone imagine that such a barrier may actually be required? If it
>>>>> is currently possible that env->stop is evaluated before we called into
>>>>> sigtimedwait in qemu_kvm_eat_signals, then we could actually eat the
>>>>> signal without properly processing its reason (stop).
>>>
>>> Should not be required (TM): Both signal eating / stop checking and stop
>>> setting / signal generation happens under the BQL, thus the ordering
>>> must not make a difference here.
>>
>> Agree.
>>
>>
>>> Don't see where we could lose a signal. Maybe due to a subtle memory
>>> corruption that sets thread_kicked to non-zero, preventing the kicking
>>> this way.
>>
>> Cannot be ruled out, yet too much of a coincidence.
>>
>> Could be a kernel bug (either in kvm or elsewhere), we've had several
>> before in this area.
>>
>> Is this reproducible?
>
> Not for me. Peter only hit it very rarely, Peter obviously more easily.

I have only hit this once and was not able to reproduce it.

Stefan