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[kvm-devel] [PATCH] Don't quit IO thread before all lvcpus stopped

[Dor L. <dor...@qu...>]

while investigating the revert of "fix sci irq set when acpi timer" I
discovered the reason. Please also re-revert the original patch.
Thanks,
Dor

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[PATCH] Don't quit IO thread before all lvcpus stopped

Call pause_all_threads() before exiting the i/o thread
main loop.
This scenario happened on system_powerdown request:
The vcpu eventually makes pm_ioport_writew (soft power off)
access that calls qemu_system_shutdown_request.
It causes the i/o thread to exit although the vcpu did not
exit yet.

One of the symptoms is that vcpu may trigger timers thus
causing a segfault since the i/o thread stopped the timer.
[This is what happened on the sci irq timer, now there is no
need to revert it[

Signed-off-by: Dor Laor <dor...@qu...>
---
 qemu/qemu-kvm.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qemu/qemu-kvm.c b/qemu/qemu-kvm.c
index 50589a7..78127de 100644
--- a/qemu/qemu-kvm.c
+++ b/qemu/qemu-kvm.c
@@ -452,7 +452,9 @@ int kvm_main_loop(void)
         pthread_mutex_unlock(&qemu_mutex);
     }
 
+    pause_all_threads();
     pthread_mutex_unlock(&qemu_mutex);
+
     return 0;
 }
 
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1.5.4.1

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Don't quit IO thread before all lvcpus stopped

[Avi K. <av...@qu...>]

Dor Laor wrote:
> while investigating the revert of "fix sci irq set when acpi timer" I
> discovered the reason. Please also re-revert the original patch.
>   

Applied, but system_powerdown still doesn't work with the sci acpi timer 
fix.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Don't quit IO thread before all lvcpus stopped

[Dor L. <dor...@qu...>]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 15:47 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Dor Laor wrote:
> > while investigating the revert of "fix sci irq set when acpi timer" I
> > discovered the reason. Please also re-revert the original patch.
> >   
> 
> Applied, but system_powerdown still doesn't work with the sci acpi timer 
> fix.
> 
> 

With the above patch and revert the reversion of "fix sci irq set when
acpi timer" it works for me. Can you give some details or try again?

My host is 2.6.24.3-50-fc8, your kvm head (user
da00aa5090cf2de4259960ea659ac783bd65a041 + re-revert, kernel
1736e3f0a3e173a7f452b32ad19bfff085a1a255).
Guest is winXp with acpi hal. After it boots I go to the monitor and
issue a system_powerdown.
Everything works and there is no segfaults (tested multiple time)

Dor

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Don't quit IO thread before all lvcpus stopped

[Avi K. <av...@qu...>]

Dor Laor wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 15:47 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> Dor Laor wrote:
>>     
>>> while investigating the revert of "fix sci irq set when acpi timer" I
>>> discovered the reason. Please also re-revert the original patch.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Applied, but system_powerdown still doesn't work with the sci acpi timer 
>> fix.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> With the above patch and revert the reversion of "fix sci irq set when
> acpi timer" it works for me. Can you give some details or try again?
>
> My host is 2.6.24.3-50-fc8, your kvm head (user
> da00aa5090cf2de4259960ea659ac783bd65a041 + re-revert, kernel
> 1736e3f0a3e173a7f452b32ad19bfff085a1a255).
> Guest is winXp with acpi hal. After it boots I go to the monitor and
> issue a system_powerdown.
> Everything works and there is no segfaults (tested multiple time)
>
>   

With current master, Windows and Linux (FC6, x86_64) both shut down 
correctly after system_powerdown. With the sci timer thing re-applied, 
Windows continues to work but Linux no longer responds to ACPI powerdown.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function