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Commit 73c6e401 authored by Paolo Bonzini's avatar Paolo Bonzini
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rcu: completely disable pthread_atfork callbacks as soon as possible



Because of -daemonize, system mode QEMU sometimes needs to fork() and
keep RCU enabled in the child.  However, there is a possible deadlock
with synchronize_rcu:

- the CPU thread is inside a RCU critical section and wants to take
  the BQL in order to do MMIO

- the monitor thread, which is owning the BQL, calls rcu_init_lock
  which tries to take the rcu_sync_lock

- the call_rcu thread has taken rcu_sync_lock in synchronize_rcu, but
  synchronize_rcu needs the CPU thread to end the critical section
  before returning.

This cannot happen for user-mode emulation, because it does not have
a BQL.

To fix it, assume that system mode QEMU only forks in preparation for
exec (except when daemonizing) and disable pthread_atfork as soon as
the double fork has happened.

Reported-by: default avatarDr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent c233a35d
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