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From: "andrzej zaborowski" <balrogg@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel mailing list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] dyntick timer stall
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:13:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb249edb0807190213t4ae30c60yf5c2b23377f43c11@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

With dyntick enabled I see qemu-system-arm lock up after a while (stay
in code_gen_buffer) due to no more signals reaching qemu. This happens
after a couple of seconds of constantly rearming the host timer with
250usec period (MIN_TIMER_REARM_US).

The offender is audio which, if the QEMU_AUDIO_TIMER_PERIOD env
variable is unset, requests audio_timer() be called every 1 vm_clock
tick, resulting in a negative period in qemu_next_deadline_dyntick
which is then trimmed to MIN_TIMER_REARM_US. It seems to be a problem
in host's timer_settime() though.

timer_settime is constantly called with 250usec as parameter without
the timeout having passed, and then after it's called for the last
time, no signal arrives in the main thread for at least a couple of
minutes. The host is x86_64 Linux 2.6, what may be causing this and
what may be a fix?

Regards

             reply	other threads:[~2008-07-19  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-19  9:13 andrzej zaborowski [this message]
2008-07-19 10:20 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: dyntick timer stall Jan Kiszka
2008-07-19 12:55   ` andrzej zaborowski

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