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watchdog: fix deadlock with -watchdog-action pause
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qemu_clock_enable says:

/* Disabling the clock will wait for related timerlists to stop
 * executing qemu_run_timers.  Thus, this functions should not
 * be used from the callback of a timer that is based on @clock.
 * Doing so would cause a deadlock.
 */

and it indeed does: vm_stop uses qemu_clock_enable on QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL
and watchdogs are based on QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL, and we get a deadlock.

Use qemu_system_vmstop_request_prepare()/qemu_system_vmstop_request()
instead; yet another alternative could be a BH.

I checked other occurrences of vm_stop and they should not have this
problem.  RUN_STATE_IO_ERROR could in principle (it depends on the
code in the drivers) but it has been fixed by commit 2bd3bce, "block:
asynchronously stop the VM on I/O errors", 2014-06-05.

Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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bonzini committed Jul 9, 2014
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion hw/watchdog/watchdog.c
Expand Up @@ -122,8 +122,12 @@ void watchdog_perform_action(void)
exit(0);

case WDT_PAUSE: /* same as 'stop' command in monitor */
/* In a timer callback, when vm_stop calls qemu_clock_enable
* you would get a deadlock. Bypass the problem.
*/
qemu_system_vmstop_request_prepare();
qapi_event_send_watchdog(WATCHDOG_EXPIRATION_ACTION_PAUSE, &error_abort);
vm_stop(RUN_STATE_WATCHDOG);
qemu_system_vmstop_request(RUN_STATE_WATCHDOG);
break;

case WDT_DEBUG:
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