Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH] mirror: Fix coroutine reentrance

[Jeff Cody]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:41:50AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> This fixes a regression introduced by commit dcfb3beb ("mirror: Do zero
> write on target if sectors not allocated"), which was reported to cause
> aborts with the message "Co-routine re-entered recursively".
> 
> The cause for this bug is the following code in mirror_iteration_done():
> 
>     if (s->common.busy) {
>         qemu_coroutine_enter(s->common.co, NULL);
>     }
> 
> This has always been ugly because - unlike most places that reenter - it
> doesn't have a specific yield that it pairs with, but is more
> uncontrolled.  What we really mean here is "reenter the coroutine if
> it's in one of the four explicit yields in mirror.c".
> 
> This used to be equivalent with s->common.busy because neither
> mirror_run() nor mirror_iteration() call any function that could yield.
> However since commit dcfb3beb this doesn't hold true any more:
> bdrv_get_block_status_above() can yield.
> 
> So what happens is that bdrv_get_block_status_above() wants to take a
> lock that is already held, so it adds itself to the queue of waiting
> coroutines and yields. Instead of being woken up by the unlock function,
> however, it gets woken up by mirror_iteration_done(), which is obviously
> wrong.
> 
> In most cases the code actually happens to cope fairly well with such
> cases, but in this specific case, the unlock must already have scheduled
> the coroutine for wakeup when mirror_iteration_done() reentered it. And
> then the coroutine happened to process the scheduled restarts and tried
> to reenter itself recursively.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem by pairing the reenter in
> mirror_iteration_done() with specific yields instead of abusing
> s->common.busy.
> 
> Cc: address@hidden
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>

Thanks, applied to my block branch:

https://github.com/codyprime/qemu-kvm-jtc/tree/block

-Jeff