[Qemu-devel] [5633] Fix alarm_timer race with select - v3 (Jan Kiszka)

[Anthony Liguori]

Revision: 5633
          http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5633
Author:   aliguori
Date:     2008-11-05 20:29:45 +0000 (Wed, 05 Nov 2008)

Log Message:
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Fix alarm_timer race with select - v3 (Jan Kiszka)

Changing the default IO timeout to 5 s (#5578) made a race visible
between the alarm_timer and select() in main_loop_wait(): If the timer
fired before select was able to block, the full select() timeout could
have been applied instead of returning immediately. Since #5578, this
causes heavy problems to the Musicpal board emulation with stalls up to
5 s, but also with some older Linux guest kernels.

The following patch introduces a pipe that is written to by
host_alarm_handler and select()'ed in main_loop_wait(). This avoids
prevents that select() blocks though a timer has fired and waits for
processing.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>

Modified Paths:
--------------
    trunk/vl.c

Modified: trunk/vl.c
===================================================================
--- trunk/vl.c  2008-11-05 20:24:35 UTC (rev 5632)
+++ trunk/vl.c  2008-11-05 20:29:45 UTC (rev 5633)
@@ -885,6 +885,7 @@
 #define MIN_TIMER_REARM_US 250
 
 static struct qemu_alarm_timer *alarm_timer;
+static int alarm_timer_rfd, alarm_timer_wfd;
 
 #ifdef _WIN32
 
@@ -1304,12 +1305,15 @@
                                qemu_get_clock(vm_clock))) ||
         qemu_timer_expired(active_timers[QEMU_TIMER_REALTIME],
                            qemu_get_clock(rt_clock))) {
+        CPUState *env = next_cpu;
+        static const char byte = 0;
+
 #ifdef _WIN32
         struct qemu_alarm_win32 *data = ((struct 
qemu_alarm_timer*)dwUser)->priv;
         SetEvent(data->host_alarm);
 #endif
-        CPUState *env = next_cpu;
 
+        write(alarm_timer_wfd, &byte, sizeof(byte));
         alarm_timer->flags |= ALARM_FLAG_EXPIRED;
 
         if (env) {
@@ -1674,7 +1678,21 @@
 {
     struct qemu_alarm_timer *t = NULL;
     int i, err = -1;
+    int fds[2];
 
+    if (pipe(fds) < 0) {
+    fail:
+        perror("creating timer pipe");
+        exit(1);
+    }
+    for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
+        int flags = fcntl(fds[i], F_GETFL);
+        if (flags == -1 || fcntl(fds[i], F_SETFL, flags | O_NONBLOCK))
+            goto fail;
+    }
+    alarm_timer_rfd = fds[0];
+    alarm_timer_wfd = fds[1];
+
     for (i = 0; alarm_timers[i].name; i++) {
         t = &alarm_timers[i];
 
@@ -4426,8 +4444,9 @@
 
     /* poll any events */
     /* XXX: separate device handlers from system ones */
-    nfds = -1;
+    nfds = alarm_timer_rfd;
     FD_ZERO(&rfds);
+    FD_SET(alarm_timer_rfd, &rfds);
     FD_ZERO(&wfds);
     FD_ZERO(&xfds);
     for(ioh = first_io_handler; ioh != NULL; ioh = ioh->next) {
@@ -4501,6 +4520,11 @@
                     qemu_get_clock(rt_clock));
 
     if (alarm_timer->flags & ALARM_FLAG_EXPIRED) {
+        char byte;
+        do {
+            ret = read(alarm_timer_rfd, &byte, sizeof(byte));
+        } while (ret != -1 || errno != EAGAIN);
+
         alarm_timer->flags &= ~(ALARM_FLAG_EXPIRED);
         qemu_rearm_alarm_timer(alarm_timer);
     }