Am 16.01.2024 um 20:00 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben:
> monitor_qmp_dispatcher_co() runs in the iohandler AioContext that is not
> polled during nested event loops. The coroutine currently reschedules
> itself in the main loop's qemu_aio_context AioContext, which is polled
> during nested event loops. One known problem is that QMP device-add
> calls drain_call_rcu(), which temporarily drops the BQL, leading to all
> sorts of havoc like other vCPU threads re-entering device emulation code
> while another vCPU thread is waiting in device emulation code with
> aio_poll().
> 
> Paolo Bonzini suggested running non-coroutine QMP handlers in the
> iohandler AioContext. This avoids trouble with nested event loops. His
> original idea was to move coroutine rescheduling to
> monitor_qmp_dispatch(), but I resorted to moving it to qmp_dispatch()
> because we don't know if the QMP handler needs to run in coroutine
> context in monitor_qmp_dispatch(). monitor_qmp_dispatch() would have
> been nicer since it's associated with the monitor implementation and not
> as general as qmp_dispatch(), which is also used by qemu-ga.
> 
> A number of qemu-iotests need updated .out files because the order of
> QMP events vs QMP responses has changed.
> 
> Solves Issue #1933.
> 
> Fixes: 7bed89958bfbf40df9ca681cefbdca63abdde39d ("device_core: use 
> drain_call_rcu in in qmp_device_add")
> Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2215192
> Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2214985
> Buglink: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-17369
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>


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