On 04/10/13 15:23, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > After attaching the source, we have to remove the reference we hold > to it, because we do not hold anymore a pointer to the source. > > If we do not do this, removing the source will not finalize it and > will not drop the "real" I/O watch source. > > This showed up when backporting the new flow control patches to older > versions of QEMU that still used select. The whole select then failed > with EBADF (poll instead will reporting POLLNVAL on a single pollfd) > and QEMU froze.
I get freezes now in master, bisecting points to this patch. Reproducer: "qemu -serial pty". qemu is pretty much unusable with libvirt now as libvirt uses pty chardevs by default for serial & monitor ... (gdb) bt #0 __lll_lock_wait () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/lowlevellock.S:136 #1 0x00007f4141ce7388 in _L_lock_854 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 #2 0x00007f4141ce7257 in __pthread_mutex_lock (mutex=0x7f4145639128) at pthread_mutex_lock.c:61 #3 0x00007f4142f41c37 in ?? () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #4 0x00007f41439ff1b1 in io_watch_poll_finalize (source=<value optimized out>) at /home/kraxel/projects/qemu/qemu-char.c:647 #5 0x00007f4142f4182a in ?? () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #6 0x00007f4142f41b85 in ?? () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #7 0x00007f4142f4416e in g_source_remove () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #8 0x00007f4143a02f38 in pty_chr_state (chr=0x7f4145644b70, connected=<value optimized out>) at /home/kraxel/projects/qemu/qemu-char.c:1151 #9 0x00007f4143a0303c in pty_chr_read (chan=<value optimized out>, cond=<value optimized out>, opaque=0x7f4145644b70) at /home/kraxel/projects/qemu/qemu-char.c:1116 #10 0x00007f4142f41f0e in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #11 0x00007f41439d8259 in glib_pollfds_poll (nonblocking=<value optimized out>) at /home/kraxel/projects/qemu/main-loop.c:187 #12 os_host_main_loop_wait (nonblocking=<value optimized out>) at /home/kraxel/projects/qemu/main-loop.c:232 #13 main_loop_wait (nonblocking=<value optimized out>) at /home/kraxel/projects/qemu/main-loop.c:468 #14 0x00007f4143a4f055 in main_loop (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>, envp=<value optimized out>) at /home/kraxel/projects/qemu/vl.c:2039 #15 main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>, envp=<value optimized out>) at /home/kraxel/projects/qemu/vl.c:4432 cheers, Gerd