From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Manos Pitsidianakis" <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>,
"Stefan Weil" <sw@weilnetz.de>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>,
"Pierrick Bouvier" <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>,
devel@lists.libvirt.org,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
"Hanna Reitz" <hreitz@redhat.com>,
"Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-rust@nongnu.org,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Christian Schoenebeck" <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>,
"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH v6 06/27] util: fix race setting thread name on Win32
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:24:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260211152508.732487-7-berrange@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260211152508.732487-1-berrange@redhat.com>
The call to set the thread name on Win32 platforms is done by the parent
thread, after _beginthreadex() returns. At this point the new child
thread is potentially already executing its start method. To ensure the
thread name is guaranteed to be set before any "interesting" code starts
executing, it must be done in the start method of the child thread itself.
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dave@treblig.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
util/qemu-thread-win32.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/util/qemu-thread-win32.c b/util/qemu-thread-win32.c
index 9595a5b090..255c88571f 100644
--- a/util/qemu-thread-win32.c
+++ b/util/qemu-thread-win32.c
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ typedef HRESULT (WINAPI *pSetThreadDescription) (HANDLE hThread,
static pSetThreadDescription SetThreadDescriptionFunc;
static HMODULE kernel32_module;
+static void set_thread_description(const char *name);
+
static bool load_set_thread_description(void)
{
static gsize _init_once = 0;
@@ -225,6 +227,7 @@ struct QemuThreadData {
void *arg;
short mode;
NotifierList exit;
+ char *name; /* Freed in win32_start_routine */
/* Only used for joinable threads. */
bool exited;
@@ -266,6 +269,10 @@ static unsigned __stdcall win32_start_routine(void *arg)
void *(*start_routine)(void *) = data->start_routine;
void *thread_arg = data->arg;
+ if (data->name) {
+ set_thread_description(data->name);
+ g_clear_pointer(&data->name, g_free);
+ }
qemu_thread_data = data;
qemu_thread_exit(start_routine(thread_arg));
abort();
@@ -316,7 +323,7 @@ void *qemu_thread_join(QemuThread *thread)
return ret;
}
-static void set_thread_description(HANDLE h, const char *name)
+static void set_thread_description(const char *name)
{
g_autofree wchar_t *namew = NULL;
@@ -329,7 +336,7 @@ static void set_thread_description(HANDLE h, const char *name)
return;
}
- SetThreadDescriptionFunc(h, namew);
+ SetThreadDescriptionFunc(GetCurrentThread(), namew);
}
void qemu_thread_create(QemuThread *thread, const char *name,
@@ -344,6 +351,7 @@ void qemu_thread_create(QemuThread *thread, const char *name,
data->arg = arg;
data->mode = mode;
data->exited = false;
+ data->name = g_strdup(name);
notifier_list_init(&data->exit);
if (data->mode != QEMU_THREAD_DETACHED) {
@@ -355,9 +363,6 @@ void qemu_thread_create(QemuThread *thread, const char *name,
if (!hThread) {
error_exit(GetLastError(), __func__);
}
- if (name) {
- set_thread_description(hThread, name);
- }
CloseHandle(hThread);
thread->data = data;
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-11 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-11 15:24 [PATCH v6 00/27] util: sync error_report & qemu_log output more closely Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 01/27] meson: don't access 'cxx' object without checking cpp lang Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 02/27] qemu-options: remove extraneous [] around arg values Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 03/27] include: define constant for early constructor priority Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 9:22 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-18 10:46 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 13:23 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 04/27] monitor: initialize global data from a constructor Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 05/27] system: unconditionally enable thread naming Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 07/27] util: expose qemu_thread_set_name Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 08/27] audio: make jackaudio use qemu_thread_set_name Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 09/27] util: set the name for the 'main' thread on Windows Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 10/27] util: add API to fetch the current thread name Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 11/27] util: introduce some API docs for logging APIs Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 9:38 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 12/27] util: avoid repeated prefix on incremental qemu_log calls Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 9:52 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-18 10:45 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 13/27] util/log: add missing error reporting in qemu_log_trylock_with_err Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 10:45 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 14/27] ui: add proper error reporting for password changes Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 12:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-25 16:08 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 15/27] ui: remove redundant use of error_printf_unless_qmp() Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 12:12 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 16/27] monitor: remove redundant error_[v]printf_unless_qmp Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 17/27] monitor: refactor error_vprintf() Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:24 ` [PATCH v6 18/27] monitor: move error_vprintf back to error-report.c Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 19/27] util: fix interleaving of error & trace output Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 12:41 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-18 12:45 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 20/27] util: don't skip error prefixes when QMP is active Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 12:47 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 21/27] util: fix interleaving of error prefixes Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 22/27] util: introduce common helper for error-report & log code Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-18 14:04 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-25 16:18 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-25 17:51 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 23/27] util: convert error-report & log to message API for timestamp Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 24/27] util: add support for formatting a workload name in messages Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 25/27] util: add support for formatting a program " Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-19 10:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-25 16:24 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-26 7:11 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-19 10:23 ` Peter Maydell
2026-02-25 16:38 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-25 17:43 ` Peter Maydell
2026-02-25 17:47 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 26/27] util: add support for formatting thread info " Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-19 10:14 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-25 16:33 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-19 10:29 ` Peter Maydell
2026-02-25 16:30 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-25 17:39 ` Peter Maydell
2026-02-11 15:25 ` [PATCH v6 27/27] util: add brackets around guest name in message context Daniel P. Berrangé
2026-02-19 10:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2026-02-26 9:51 ` [PATCH v6 00/27] util: sync error_report & qemu_log output more closely Markus Armbruster
2026-02-26 9:58 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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