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[PULL,v4,00/35] Misc patches for 2018-12-21

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git://github.com/bonzini/qemu.git tags/for-upstream

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Paolo Bonzini Dec. 21, 2018, 12:36 p.m. UTC
The following changes since commit e85c577158a2e8e252414959da9ef15c12eec63d:

  Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/huth-gitlab/tags/pull-request-2018-12-17' into staging (2018-12-18 14:31:06 +0000)

are available in the git repository at:


  git://github.com/bonzini/qemu.git tags/for-upstream

for you to fetch changes up to 2cbc4ea2a9f9b81d5f4bfee8c412849755b842b0:

  avoid TABs in files that only contain a few (2018-12-21 12:58:28 +0100)

v3->v4: avoid extra long command lines and ease cut-and-paste from make check logs
----------------------------------------------------------------
* HAX support for Linux hosts (Alejandro)
* esp bugfixes (Guenter)
* Windows build cleanup (Marc-André)
* checkpatch logic improvements (Paolo)
* coalesced range bugfix (Paolo)
* switch testsuite to TAP (Paolo)
* QTAILQ rewrite (Paolo)
* block/iscsi.c cancellation fixes (Stefan)
* improve selection of the default accelerator (Thomas)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Alexandro Sanchez Bach (1):
      hax: Support for Linux hosts

Guenter Roeck (2):
      esp-pci: Fix status register write erase control
      scsi: esp: Defer command completion until previous interrupts have been handled

Marc-André Lureau (5):
      vhost-user-bridge: fix "unknown type name" compilation error
      build-sys: don't include windows.h, osdep.h does it
      build-sys: move windows defines in osdep.h header
      build-sys: build with Vista API by default
      qga: drop < Vista compatibility

Paolo Bonzini (21):
      checkpatch: fix premature exit when no input or --mailback
      checkpatch: check Signed-off-by in --mailback mode
      checkpatch: improve handling of multiple patches or files
      checkpatch: colorize output to terminal
      pam: wrap MemoryRegion initialization in a transaction
      memory: extract flat_range_coalesced_io_{del,add}
      memory: avoid unnecessary coalesced_io_del operations
      memory: update coalesced_range on transaction_commit
      test: execute g_test_run when tests are skipped
      test: replace gtester with a TAP driver
      qemu/queue.h: do not access tqe_prev directly
      vfio: make vfio_address_spaces static
      qemu/queue.h: leave head structs anonymous unless necessary
      qemu/queue.h: typedef QTAILQ heads
      qemu/queue.h: remove Q_TAILQ_{HEAD,ENTRY}
      qemu/queue.h: reimplement QTAILQ without pointer-to-pointers
      qemu/queue.h: simplify reverse access to QTAILQ
      checkpatch: warn about qemu/queue.h head structs that are not typedef-ed
      scripts: add script to convert multiline comments into 4-line format
      remove space-tab sequences
      avoid TABs in files that only contain a few

Peng Hao (1):
      hw/watchdog/wdt_i6300esb: remove a unnecessary comment

Stefan Hajnoczi (4):
      block/iscsi: drop unused IscsiAIOCB->buf field
      block/iscsi: take iscsilun->mutex in iscsi_timed_check_events()
      block/iscsi: fix ioctl cancel use-after-free
      block/iscsi: cancel libiscsi task when ABORT TASK TMF completes

Thomas Huth (1):
      accel: Improve selection of the default accelerator

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 hw/i386/xen/xen-mapcache.c                   |   2 +-
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 hw/input/tsc210x.c                           |   2 +-
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 hw/mips/gt64xxx_pci.c                        |   6 +-
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 hw/misc/max111x.c                            |   6 +-
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 hw/net/mipsnet.c                             |  16 +-
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 hw/net/rocker/rocker.c                       |   2 +-
 hw/net/virtio-net.c                          |   4 +-
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 hw/ppc/spapr_iommu.c                         |   2 +-
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 hw/scsi/scsi-bus.c                           |   2 +-
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 hw/usb/dev-bluetooth.c                       |   2 +-
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 hw/usb/xen-usb.c                             |   6 +-
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 hw/watchdog/wdt_i6300esb.c                   |   1 -
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 hw/xen/xen_pvdev.c                           |   4 +-
 hw/xenpv/xen_domainbuild.c                   |   8 +-
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 include/hw/xen/io/ring.h                     |   4 +-
 include/net/net.h                            |   2 +-
 include/qemu/acl.h                           |  14 +-
 include/qemu/iov.h                           |   2 +-
 include/qemu/option_int.h                    |   2 +-
 include/qemu/osdep.h                         |  17 ++
 include/qemu/queue.h                         | 153 +++++------
 include/qemu/rcu_queue.h                     |  45 ++--
 include/qom/cpu.h                            |   9 +-
 include/scsi/constants.h                     |   2 +-
 include/sysemu/accel.h                       |   2 +-
 include/sysemu/balloon.h                     |   2 +-
 include/sysemu/kvm.h                         |   2 -
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 include/sysemu/rng.h                         |   2 +-
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 linux-user/linuxload.c                       |  14 +-
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 scripts/tap-merge.pl                         | 110 ++++++++
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 target/i386/{hax-darwin.c => hax-posix.c}    |   0
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 tcg/i386/tcg-target.inc.c                    |   4 +-
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 ui/console.c                                 |   4 +-
 ui/input.c                                   |  14 +-
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 ui/qemu-pixman.c                             |   2 +-
 ui/vnc-enc-zywrle-template.c                 |   4 +-
 ui/vnc.c                                     |   4 +-
 util/bitops.c                                |   4 +-
 util/osdep.c                                 |   4 +-
 util/qemu-option.c                           |   4 +-
 util/qemu-sockets.c                          |   4 +-
 util/qemu-thread-win32.c                     |   4 -
 vl.c                                         |   4 +-
 215 files changed, 1505 insertions(+), 898 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 scripts/fix-multiline-comments.sh
 delete mode 100755 scripts/gtester-cat
 create mode 100755 scripts/tap-driver.pl
 create mode 100755 scripts/tap-merge.pl
 rename target/i386/{hax-darwin.c => hax-posix.c} (100%)
 rename target/i386/{hax-darwin.h => hax-posix.h} (100%)

Comments

Peter Maydell Dec. 21, 2018, 9:09 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, 21 Dec 2018 at 12:40, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The following changes since commit e85c577158a2e8e252414959da9ef15c12eec63d:
>
>   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/huth-gitlab/tags/pull-request-2018-12-17' into staging (2018-12-18 14:31:06 +0000)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>
>   git://github.com/bonzini/qemu.git tags/for-upstream
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 2cbc4ea2a9f9b81d5f4bfee8c412849755b842b0:
>
>   avoid TABs in files that only contain a few (2018-12-21 12:58:28 +0100)
>
> v3->v4: avoid extra long command lines and ease cut-and-paste from make check logs
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> * HAX support for Linux hosts (Alejandro)
> * esp bugfixes (Guenter)
> * Windows build cleanup (Marc-André)
> * checkpatch logic improvements (Paolo)
> * coalesced range bugfix (Paolo)
> * switch testsuite to TAP (Paolo)
> * QTAILQ rewrite (Paolo)
> * block/iscsi.c cancellation fixes (Stefan)
> * improve selection of the default accelerator (Thomas)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for improving the length of the command lines. Unfortunately
this does not seem to have fixed the 'write error' from make:

MALLOC_PERTURB_=${MALLOC_PERTURB_:-$(( ${RANDOM:-0} % 255 + 1))}
QTEST_QEMU_BINARY=x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64
QTEST_QEMU_IMG=qemu-img test
s/boot-order-test -m=quick -k --tap | ./scripts/tap-driver.pl
--test-name="boot-order-test"
PASS 1 boot-order-test /x86_64/boot-order/pc
MALLOC_PERTURB_=${MALLOC_PERTURB_:-$(( ${RANDOM:-0} % 255 + 1))}
QTEST_QEMU_BINARY=x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64
QTEST_QEMU_IMG=qemu-img test
s/bios-tables-test -m=quick -k --tap | ./scripts/tap-driver.pl
--test-name="bios-tables-test"

Looking for expected file 'tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT'
Using expected file 'tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT'
Looking for expected file 'tests/data/acpi/pc/FACP'
Using expected file 'tests/data/acpi/pc/FACP'
[... omit a bunch of other uninteresting logging from the acpi test]
Looking for expected file 'tests/data/acpi/pc/NFIT.dimmpxm'
Using expected file 'tests/data/acpi/pc/NFIT.dimmpxm'

Looking for expected file 'tests/data/acpi/q35/DSDT.bridge'
Using expected file 'tests/data/acpi/q35/DSDT.bridge'
Looking for expected file 'tests/data/acpi/q35/FACP.bridge'
Looking for expected file 'tests/data/acpi/q35/FACP'
Using expected file 'tests/data/acpi/q35/FACP'
Looking for expected file 'tests/data/acpi/q35/APIC.bridge'
Looking for expected file 'tests/data/acpi/q35/APIC'
Using expected file 'tests/data/acpi/q35/APIC'
Looking for expectfwrite(): Resource temporarily unavailable
make: Leaving directory '/home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-for-merges/build/alldbg'
make: write error: stdout

I don't really understand what's going on here, or why
it only happens with this one system (my main x86-64
Linux Ubuntu 16.04.5 box) and not the various others I'm
running test builds on. But it does seem to be 100%
reliable with any of these pullreqs with the new test
driver in them :-(

thanks
-- PMM
Paolo Bonzini Dec. 22, 2018, 8:41 a.m. UTC | #2
On 21/12/18 22:09, Peter Maydell wrote:
> I don't really understand what's going on here, or why
> it only happens with this one system (my main x86-64
> Linux Ubuntu 16.04.5 box) and not the various others I'm
> running test builds on. But it does seem to be 100%
> reliable with any of these pullreqs with the new test
> driver in them :-(

I'm afraid something in your setup is causing make's stdout to have
O_NONBLOCK set.  Make doesn't use O_NONBLOCK at all, so it must be
something above it.  I also checked Perl with strace and, at least here,
it doesn't set O_NONBLOCK.

So here are some ideas... First, can you try applying something like
this to reproduce?

--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -17,9 +17,13 @@ print-%:
 # All following code might depend on configuration variables
 ifneq ($(wildcard config-host.mak),)
 # Put the all: rule here so that config-host.mak can contain dependencies.
-all:
+all: lotsofoutput
 include config-host.mak

+.PHONY: lotsofoutput
+lotsofoutput:
+	yes 1234567890 | head -n 10000
+
 git-submodule-update:

 .PHONY: git-submodule-update


And please try applying this, which is a bit of a shot in the dark but
1) it is a good idea anyway; 2) it may help, if not alone, together with
the workarounds below:

diff --git a/scripts/tap-driver.pl b/scripts/tap-driver.pl
index 5e59b5db49..6621a5cd67 100755
--- a/scripts/tap-driver.pl
+++ b/scripts/tap-driver.pl
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ sub main ()
   my $iterator = TAP::Parser::Iterator::Stream->new(\*STDIN);
   my $parser = TAP::Parser->new ({iterator => $iterator });

+  STDOUT->autoflush(1);
   while (defined (my $cur = $parser->next))
     {
       # Parsing of TAP input should stop after a "Bail out!" directive.
diff --git a/scripts/tap-merge.pl b/scripts/tap-merge.pl
index 59e3fa5007..10ccf57bb2 100755
--- a/scripts/tap-merge.pl
+++ b/scripts/tap-merge.pl
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ sub main ()
   my $testno = 0;     # Number of test results seen so far.
   my $bailed_out = 0; # Whether a "Bail out!" directive has been seen.

+  STDOUT->autoflush(1);
   while (defined (my $cur = $parser->next))
     {
       if ($cur->is_bailout)

Possible workarounds include:

- using "make -Oline" or "make -Onone" (for -Oline, it may require the
above autoflush patch).

- running this Python script before invoking make

    import os
    from fcntl import *
    fcntl(1, F_SETFL, fcntl(1, F_GETFL) & ~os.O_NONBLOCK)

Paolo
Peter Maydell Dec. 22, 2018, 11:26 a.m. UTC | #3
On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 08:41, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 21/12/18 22:09, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > I don't really understand what's going on here, or why
> > it only happens with this one system (my main x86-64
> > Linux Ubuntu 16.04.5 box) and not the various others I'm
> > running test builds on. But it does seem to be 100%
> > reliable with any of these pullreqs with the new test
> > driver in them :-(
>
> I'm afraid something in your setup is causing make's stdout to have
> O_NONBLOCK set.  Make doesn't use O_NONBLOCK at all, so it must be
> something above it.  I also checked Perl with strace and, at least here,
> it doesn't set O_NONBLOCK.
>
> So here are some ideas... First, can you try applying something like
> this to reproduce?

OK, I'll give these a go, but it'll have to be in January now.

thanks
-- PMM
Peter Maydell Jan. 3, 2019, 6:37 p.m. UTC | #4
On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 08:41, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 21/12/18 22:09, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > I don't really understand what's going on here, or why
> > it only happens with this one system (my main x86-64
> > Linux Ubuntu 16.04.5 box) and not the various others I'm
> > running test builds on. But it does seem to be 100%
> > reliable with any of these pullreqs with the new test
> > driver in them :-(
>
> I'm afraid something in your setup is causing make's stdout to have
> O_NONBLOCK set.  Make doesn't use O_NONBLOCK at all, so it must be
> something above it.  I also checked Perl with strace and, at least here,
> it doesn't set O_NONBLOCK.

Interestingly, I have today run into "make: write error: stdout"
with the existing make check infrastructure. It seems to
only happen if I run 'make check' in a loop like this:
  while make -C build/x86 -j8 V=1 check; do true; done
Adding strace to this shows that although the first
invocation of 'make' starts with stdout not O_NONBLOCK,
something in that run results in stdout being set O_NONBLOCK,
and then that persists into the second run of make,
which then may fail as a result. (This is make 4.1, which
will write output with fputs() unless a --sync-output option
is used, and thus doesn't retry on EINTR.) When the 'while'
loop finishes, something in the shell results in stdout
being set back to blocking again.

I presume that something in one of the tests we're running,
likely QEMU itself, ends up setting stdout to non-blocking.
This while rune *used* to be entirely reliable, so maybe
something recent has changed ?

thanks
-- PMM
Paolo Bonzini Jan. 4, 2019, 7:59 a.m. UTC | #5
On 03/01/19 19:37, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 08:41, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 21/12/18 22:09, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> I don't really understand what's going on here, or why
>>> it only happens with this one system (my main x86-64
>>> Linux Ubuntu 16.04.5 box) and not the various others I'm
>>> running test builds on. But it does seem to be 100%
>>> reliable with any of these pullreqs with the new test
>>> driver in them :-(
>>
>> I'm afraid something in your setup is causing make's stdout to have
>> O_NONBLOCK set.  Make doesn't use O_NONBLOCK at all, so it must be
>> something above it.  I also checked Perl with strace and, at least here,
>> it doesn't set O_NONBLOCK.
> 
> Interestingly, I have today run into "make: write error: stdout"
> with the existing make check infrastructure. [...]
> I presume that something in one of the tests we're running,
> likely QEMU itself, ends up setting stdout to non-blocking.
> This while rune *used* to be entirely reliable, so maybe
> something recent has changed ?

I don't know... I tried running make check under "strace -e fcntl" and I
didn't find any occurrences of fcntl(1, O_SETFL, ...|O_NONBLOCK).
Perhaps you can add a check after every invocation of a test executable.

Are you going to apply the pull request since the bug is preexisting?

Thanks,

Polo
Peter Maydell Jan. 4, 2019, 10:06 a.m. UTC | #6
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 07:59, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/01/19 19:37, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 08:41, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Interestingly, I have today run into "make: write error: stdout"
> > with the existing make check infrastructure. [...]
> > I presume that something in one of the tests we're running,
> > likely QEMU itself, ends up setting stdout to non-blocking.
> > This while rune *used* to be entirely reliable, so maybe
> > something recent has changed ?
>
> I don't know... I tried running make check under "strace -e fcntl" and I
> didn't find any occurrences of fcntl(1, O_SETFL, ...|O_NONBLOCK).
> Perhaps you can add a check after every invocation of a test executable.

> Are you going to apply the pull request since the bug is preexisting?

The pull request takes the problem from "occasionally shows up
in by-hand running of make check in a while loop" to "reliably
causes my automated tests to fail every time". I can't apply
a pullreq that does that, so we need to find at least a workaround.
I'm not sure why your test harness makes it much more likely
that the problem manifests.

(The shell will typically clear the O_NONBLOCK flag on its terminal
before waiting for interactive input, which is why this is a
problem when running make check inside a while loop or in my
pull test script which runs make check for several trees in
succession, but not an issue for individual runs on the command line.)

thanks
-- PMM
Paolo Bonzini Jan. 4, 2019, 11:01 a.m. UTC | #7
On 04/01/19 11:06, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 07:59, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/01/19 19:37, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 08:41, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Interestingly, I have today run into "make: write error: stdout"
>>> with the existing make check infrastructure. [...]
>>> I presume that something in one of the tests we're running,
>>> likely QEMU itself, ends up setting stdout to non-blocking.
>>> This while rune *used* to be entirely reliable, so maybe
>>> something recent has changed ?
>>
>> I don't know... I tried running make check under "strace -e fcntl" and I
>> didn't find any occurrences of fcntl(1, O_SETFL, ...|O_NONBLOCK).
>> Perhaps you can add a check after every invocation of a test executable.
> 
>> Are you going to apply the pull request since the bug is preexisting?
> 
> The pull request takes the problem from "occasionally shows up
> in by-hand running of make check in a while loop" to "reliably
> causes my automated tests to fail every time". I can't apply
> a pullreq that does that, so we need to find at least a workaround.

The certain workaround is to clear O_NONBLOCK before invoking make,
possibly by placing a wrapper in ~/bin:

    import os
    from fcntl import *
    fcntl(1, F_SETFL, fcntl(1, F_GETFL) & ~os.O_NONBLOCK)

If you're using --output-sync, *not* using it might work, but not if the
write error occurs when writing the command (as opposed to the output).
 For what it's worth, I think the latest version of Make is still
susceptible when using --output-sync.  The loop that flushes the
temporary buffer to stdout or stderr is as follows:

  while (1)
    {
      int len;
      EINTRLOOP (len, read (from, buffer, sizeof (buffer)));
      if (len < 0)
        perror ("read()");
      if (len <= 0)
        break;
      if (fwrite (buffer, len, 1, to) < 1)
        {
          perror ("fwrite()");
          break;
        }
      fflush (to);
    }

Maybe it's one of the dependencies of QEMU that is causing it.


Paolo

> I'm not sure why your test harness makes it much more likely
> that the problem manifests.
Peter Maydell Jan. 4, 2019, 11:31 a.m. UTC | #8
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 11:01, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 04/01/19 11:06, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 07:59, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 03/01/19 19:37, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 at 08:41, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> Interestingly, I have today run into "make: write error: stdout"
> >>> with the existing make check infrastructure. [...]
> >>> I presume that something in one of the tests we're running,
> >>> likely QEMU itself, ends up setting stdout to non-blocking.
> >>> This while rune *used* to be entirely reliable, so maybe
> >>> something recent has changed ?
> >>
> >> I don't know... I tried running make check under "strace -e fcntl" and I
> >> didn't find any occurrences of fcntl(1, O_SETFL, ...|O_NONBLOCK).
> >> Perhaps you can add a check after every invocation of a test executable.
> >
> >> Are you going to apply the pull request since the bug is preexisting?
> >
> > The pull request takes the problem from "occasionally shows up
> > in by-hand running of make check in a while loop" to "reliably
> > causes my automated tests to fail every time". I can't apply
> > a pullreq that does that, so we need to find at least a workaround.
>
> The certain workaround is to clear O_NONBLOCK before invoking make,
> possibly by placing a wrapper in ~/bin:
>
>     import os
>     from fcntl import *
>     fcntl(1, F_SETFL, fcntl(1, F_GETFL) & ~os.O_NONBLOCK)

I'll give this a go, but I think this will not necessarily be
sufficient if some program invoked by make sets the O_NONBLOCK flag,
and then make later in the same run tries to output and gets EINTR.
Perhaps it would be better to put it in the test harness that
invokes test binaries, so as to clear the flag as soon
as possible? It could also then in theory print a warning
if a test case had put stdin/stdout into non-blocking mode.

(The semantics of O_NONBLOCK here seem to me to be completely
broken. But they are what they are...)

thanks
-- PMM
Paolo Bonzini Jan. 4, 2019, 12:59 p.m. UTC | #9
On 04/01/19 12:31, Peter Maydell wrote:
> I'll give this a go, but I think this will not necessarily be
> sufficient if some program invoked by make sets the O_NONBLOCK flag,
> and then make later in the same run tries to output and gets EINTR.
> Perhaps it would be better to put it in the test harness that
> invokes test binaries, so as to clear the flag as soon
> as possible? It could also then in theory print a warning
> if a test case had put stdin/stdout into non-blocking mode.

Aha, you gave me the clue I needed. :)  gtester redirected stdin/out/err
to /dev/null.

In the new harness, stdout is piped into tap-driver.pl, but everything
else is left in place.  Leaving stderr should be safe, while stdin is
the most likely culprit.  Adding </dev/null to the test invocation
should fix it; I'll send a new pull request either today or next Monday.

> (The semantics of O_NONBLOCK here seem to me to be completely
> broken. But they are what they are...)

Yes, and F_SETFL is not the only "interesting" fcntl in this respect;
fortunately QEMU is not using F_SETOWN anymore!

Paolo
Peter Maydell Jan. 4, 2019, 1:03 p.m. UTC | #10
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 07:59, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> I don't know... I tried running make check under "strace -e fcntl" and I
> didn't find any occurrences of fcntl(1, O_SETFL, ...|O_NONBLOCK).

I found this strace command worked to track down some possible
culprits:
strace -o /tmp/strace.log -e fcntl,execve,clone -e signal=none -f make
-C build/x86 V=1 check

Extracts from the logs:

29251 execve("tests/test-char", ["tests/test-char", "-q", "-p",
"/char/stdio/subprocess", "--GTestSubprocess", "--GTestLogFD", "4"],
[/* 66 vars */] <unfinished ...>
29251 <... execve resumed> )            = 0
29251 fcntl(3, F_GETFD)                 = 0
29251 fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)     = 0
29251 clone(child_stack=0x7f43946addf0,
flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID,
parent_tidptr=0x7f43946ae9d0, tls=0x7f43946ae700,
child_tidptr=0x7f43946ae9d0) = 29254
29251 fcntl(4, F_GETFD)                 = 0
29251 fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)     = 0
29251 fcntl(4, F_GETFL)                 = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
29251 fcntl(4, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
29251 fcntl(0, F_GETFL)                 = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
29251 fcntl(0, F_GETFL)                 = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
29251 fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
29251 fcntl(1, F_GETFL)                 = 0x1 (flags O_WRONLY)
29251 fcntl(1, F_SETFL, O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
29251 fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
29251 fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
29254 +++ exited with 0 +++
29251 +++ exited with 0 +++

(the attempt to F_SETFL a closed stdin is also interesting).

and

30300 execve("tests/hexloader-test", ["tests/hexloader-test",
"--quiet", "--keep-going", "-m
=quick", "--GTestLogFD=6"], [/* 68 vars */]) = 0
30300 fcntl(3, F_GETFD)                 = 0
30300 fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)     = 0
30300 fcntl(4, F_GETFD)                 = 0
30300 fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)     = 0
30300 clone(child_stack=0,
flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD,
child_tidptr=0x7f26bdc09a10) = 30301
30301 execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "exec
arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm"...], [/* 69 vars */]) = 0
30301 execve("arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm",
["arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm", "-qtest",
"unix:/tmp/qtest-30300.sock,nowai"..., "-qtest-log", "/dev/null",
"-chardev", "socket,path=/tmp/qtest-30300.qmp"..., "-mon",
"chardev=char0,mode=control", "-machine", "accel=qtest", "-display",
"none", "-M", "vexpress-a9", "-nographic", ...], [/* 69 vars */]) = 0
30301 fcntl(3, F_GETFD)                 = 0
30301 fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)     = 0
30301 clone(child_stack=0x7f84f7614730,
flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID,
parent_tidptr=0x7f84f76179d0, tls=0x7f84f7617700,
child_tidptr=0x7f84f76179d0) = 30302
30301 fcntl(7, F_GETFD)                 = 0
30301 fcntl(7, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)     = 0
30301 fcntl(7, F_GETFL)                 = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
30301 fcntl(7, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
30301 fcntl(11, F_GETFL)                = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
30301 fcntl(11, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
30301 fcntl(12, F_GETFL)                = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
30301 fcntl(12, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
30301 clone(child_stack=0x7f84f6e13730,
flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID,
parent_tidptr=0x7f84f6e169d0, tls=0x7f84f6e16700,
child_tidptr=0x7f84f6e169d0) = 30303
30301 fcntl(0, F_GETFL)                 = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
30301 fcntl(0, F_GETFL)                 = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
30301 fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
30301 fcntl(1, F_GETFL)                 = 0x8402 (flags
O_RDWR|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE)
30301 fcntl(1, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_APPEND|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
30301 clone(child_stack=0x7f84f6612730,
flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID,
parent_tidptr=0x7f84f66159d0, tls=0x7f84f6615700,
child_tidptr=0x7f84f66159d0) = 30304
30303 +++ exited with 0 +++
30301 fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
30301 fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
30302 +++ exited with 0 +++
30301 +++ exited with 0 +++

where tests/hexloader-test starts a QEMU process which
makes stdin/stdout non-blocking.

I didn't try to also track dup/dup2/dup3 use to see whether fd 0/1/2
were duped to other fds and then set O_NONBLOCK via those, or
open to see if they were reopened with other contents.

(Test run is still in-progress, I'll update if there are any more
interesting bits of logging.)

thanks
-- PMM
Paolo Bonzini Jan. 4, 2019, 1:34 p.m. UTC | #11
On 04/01/19 14:03, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 07:59, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> I don't know... I tried running make check under "strace -e fcntl" and I
>> didn't find any occurrences of fcntl(1, O_SETFL, ...|O_NONBLOCK).
> 
> I found this strace command worked to track down some possible
> culprits:
> strace -o /tmp/strace.log -e fcntl,execve,clone -e signal=none -f make
> -C build/x86 V=1 check
> 
> Extracts from the logs:
> 
> 29251 execve("tests/test-char", ["tests/test-char", "-q", "-p",
> "/char/stdio/subprocess", "--GTestSubprocess", "--GTestLogFD", "4"],
> [/* 66 vars */] <unfinished ...>
> 29251 <... execve resumed> )            = 0
> 29251 fcntl(3, F_GETFD)                 = 0
> 29251 fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)     = 0
> 29251 clone(child_stack=0x7f43946addf0,
> flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID,
> parent_tidptr=0x7f43946ae9d0, tls=0x7f43946ae700,
> child_tidptr=0x7f43946ae9d0) = 29254
> 29251 fcntl(4, F_GETFD)                 = 0
> 29251 fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)     = 0
> 29251 fcntl(4, F_GETFL)                 = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
> 29251 fcntl(4, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
> 29251 fcntl(0, F_GETFL)                 = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
> 29251 fcntl(0, F_GETFL)                 = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
> 29251 fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
> 29251 fcntl(1, F_GETFL)                 = 0x1 (flags O_WRONLY)
> 29251 fcntl(1, F_SETFL, O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
> 29251 fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
> 29251 fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
> 29254 +++ exited with 0 +++
> 29251 +++ exited with 0 +++

This one is okay, since the subprocess is using a pipe for stdin and stdout.

QEMU restores O_NONBLOCK at exit (see term_exit in
chardev/char-stdio.c); however, for parallel make and no --output-sync,
a small window does remain where make sees a nonblocking stdout.  Even
that wouldn't explain why the second make inside the while loop always
sees a nonblocking stdout, while the first never does.

Paolo

> (the attempt to F_SETFL a closed stdin is also interesting).
> 
> and
> 
> 30300 execve("tests/hexloader-test", ["tests/hexloader-test",
> "--quiet", "--keep-going", "-m
> =quick", "--GTestLogFD=6"], [/* 68 vars */]) = 0
> 30300 fcntl(3, F_GETFD)                 = 0
> 30300 fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)     = 0
> 30300 fcntl(4, F_GETFD)                 = 0
> 30300 fcntl(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)     = 0
> 30300 clone(child_stack=0,
> flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD,
> child_tidptr=0x7f26bdc09a10) = 30301
> 30301 execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "exec
> arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm"...], [/* 69 vars */]) = 0
> 30301 execve("arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm",
> ["arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm", "-qtest",
> "unix:/tmp/qtest-30300.sock,nowai"..., "-qtest-log", "/dev/null",
> "-chardev", "socket,path=/tmp/qtest-30300.qmp"..., "-mon",
> "chardev=char0,mode=control", "-machine", "accel=qtest", "-display",
> "none", "-M", "vexpress-a9", "-nographic", ...], [/* 69 vars */]) = 0
> 30301 fcntl(3, F_GETFD)                 = 0
> 30301 fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)     = 0
> 30301 clone(child_stack=0x7f84f7614730,
> flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID,
> parent_tidptr=0x7f84f76179d0, tls=0x7f84f7617700,
> child_tidptr=0x7f84f76179d0) = 30302
> 30301 fcntl(7, F_GETFD)                 = 0
> 30301 fcntl(7, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)     = 0
> 30301 fcntl(7, F_GETFL)                 = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
> 30301 fcntl(7, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
> 30301 fcntl(11, F_GETFL)                = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
> 30301 fcntl(11, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
> 30301 fcntl(12, F_GETFL)                = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
> 30301 fcntl(12, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
> 30301 clone(child_stack=0x7f84f6e13730,
> flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID,
> parent_tidptr=0x7f84f6e169d0, tls=0x7f84f6e16700,
> child_tidptr=0x7f84f6e169d0) = 30303
> 30301 fcntl(0, F_GETFL)                 = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
> 30301 fcntl(0, F_GETFL)                 = 0x8000 (flags O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
> 30301 fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
> 30301 fcntl(1, F_GETFL)                 = 0x8402 (flags
> O_RDWR|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE)
> 30301 fcntl(1, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_APPEND|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
> 30301 clone(child_stack=0x7f84f6612730,
> flags=CLONE_VM|CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_THREAD|CLONE_SYSVSEM|CLONE_SETTLS|CLONE_PARENT_SETTID|CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID,
> parent_tidptr=0x7f84f66159d0, tls=0x7f84f6615700,
> child_tidptr=0x7f84f66159d0) = 30304
> 30303 +++ exited with 0 +++
> 30301 fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 0
> 30301 fcntl(0, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
> 30302 +++ exited with 0 +++
> 30301 +++ exited with 0 +++
> 
> where tests/hexloader-test starts a QEMU process which
> makes stdin/stdout non-blocking.
> 
> I didn't try to also track dup/dup2/dup3 use to see whether fd 0/1/2
> were duped to other fds and then set O_NONBLOCK via those, or
> open to see if they were reopened with other contents.
> 
> (Test run is still in-progress, I'll update if there are any more
> interesting bits of logging.)
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>
Peter Maydell Jan. 4, 2019, 1:45 p.m. UTC | #12
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 13:03, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 07:59, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I don't know... I tried running make check under "strace -e fcntl" and I
> > didn't find any occurrences of fcntl(1, O_SETFL, ...|O_NONBLOCK).
>
> I found this strace command worked to track down some possible
> culprits:
> strace -o /tmp/strace.log -e fcntl,execve,clone -e signal=none -f make
> -C build/x86 V=1 check
>
> Extracts from the logs:
>
> 29251 execve("tests/test-char", ["tests/test-char", "-q", "-p",
> "/char/stdio/subprocess", "--GTestSubprocess", "--GTestLogFD", "4"],
> [/* 66 vars */] <unfinished ...>

This one seems to be ok, because the call to g_test_trap_subprocess()
does not pass any flags arguments, which means the child gets
its stdin/stdout/stderr all set to /dev/null, and the change
to O_NONBLOCK is thus harmless.

> 30300 execve("tests/hexloader-test", ["tests/hexloader-test",
> "--quiet", "--keep-going", "-m
> =quick", "--GTestLogFD=6"], [/* 68 vars */]) = 0

This one on the other hand does seem like it might be an issue.
Removing the "-nographic" from the qtest_initf() command
causes it no longer to mess with the O_NONBLOCK state
of its stdout. I'm just doing a 'while loop' test run to
see if it fixes the problems I was seeing with that.

It seems a touch brittle if a harmless-looking command
line option to QEMU can break test runs, though -- is
there a way we can make this more robust, eg by having
the QEMU process i/o always redirected ?

thanks
-- PMM