Bug 601192
| Summary: | fork causes trouble for vcpu threads | |||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel> | |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Glauber Costa <gcosta> | |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | low | |||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | armbru, berrange, gcosta, kcao, michen, mkenneth, tburke, virt-maint | |
| Target Milestone: | rc | |||
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | All | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | ||
| Clone Of: | ||||
| : | 606953 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2010-07-09 02:10:35 UTC | Type: | --- | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
| Embargoed: | ||||
| Bug Depends On: | ||||
| Bug Blocks: | 579026, 606953 | |||
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux major release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Major release. This request is not yet committed for inclusion. Glauber, can you put your io-thread hat on and either comment on the possible fixes outlined in "Additional info" above or just grab this bug and handle it? Gerd, I made some comments on this bug yesterday. Somehow, they are missing, no idea why. I am already working on it. Ok, some more info: It doesn't seem to happen with -no-kvm-irqchip. Investigating, I've found that after the receival of SIGCHLD, the kernel is blocked in kvm_vcpu_block. Also, it is hardly triggable when the guest kernel hasn't reached userspace yet (probably because it halts less, during kernel boot). The funny thing is that it never happens when one just sends SIGCHLD to the process. The signal handler is executed, but the problem does not appear. I believe there is a race somewhere, where we consume a SIGCHLD when expecting SIG_IPI, and then this other signal is lost. But right now, my biggest belief is that there is a race bug somewhere in the kernel, in the in-kernel apic implementation. Ok, I now reproduce it even when disabling the SIGCHLD signal handler. This is conforming to my theory that we have a race with sigpending status. Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-42.el6 I have tried on # uname -r 2.6.32-42.el6.x86_64 for tens of times, and cannot reproduce this bug. but on # uname -r 2.6.32-39.el6.x86_64 I can, sometimes, find the guest machine (rhel6) cannot execute commands completely, i.e. # ping 127.0.0.1 PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.034 ms and cannot go on any more. and "top", "reboot" and some other commands cannot return any thing. anyway, I cannot reproduce this on 2.6.32-42.el6.x86_64 kernel. Additional info: # rpm -q qemu-kvm qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.90.el6.x86_64 command that starts vm: qemu-kvm -name vm1 -monitor stdio -drive file=./RHEL-Server-6.0-64.qcow2,if=ide,cache=none,aio=native -m 2048 -smp 2 -vnc :0 -spice port=8000,disable-ticketing -usbdevice tablet -rtc-td-hack -cpu qemu64,+sse2 -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -net nic,vlan=0,netdev=DWxy,model=rtl8139,macaddr='02:6F:F6:3D:b9:b2' -netdev tap,id=DWxy,ifname=rtl8139_0_8000,script=.scripts/qemu-ifup-switch,downscript=no command that trys to trigger this bug: netdev_add tap,id=foo,script=/bin/true *** Bug 585195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |
Description of problem: Guest stops running when qemu receives SIGCHILD. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.69.el6.x86_64 How reproducible: (1) boot guest (2) make qemu fork+exec something which exits quicky. "netdev_add tap,id=foo,script=/bin/true" will do. Actual results: Guest stops running. Expected results: Guest continues running. Additional info: Disabling the qemu SIGCHLD signal handler makes the problem disappear. Not a good idea though. Blocking SIGCHLD in the vcpu threads works too. Not sure this is the correct fix or whenever it just papers over the underlying bug.