[PULL,11/30] replay: don't synchronize memory operations in replay mode

Commit Message

Paolo Bonzini Oct. 2, 2019, 4:51 p.m. UTC

From: Pavel Dovgalyuk <[e-mail]>

Commit 9458a9a1df1a4c719e24512394d548c1fc7abd22 added synchronization
of vCPU and migration operations through calling run_on_cpu operation.
However, in replay mode this synchronization is unneeded, because
I/O and vCPU threads are already synchronized.
This patch disables such synchronization for record/replay mode.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Dovgalyuk <[e-mail]>
---
 exec.c | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
index 8a0a661..1d6e4d8 100644
--- a/exec.c
+++ b/exec.c
@@ -2959,8 +2959,17 @@  static void tcg_log_global_after_sync(MemoryListener *listener)
      * by pushing the migration thread's memory read after the vCPU thread has
      * written the memory.
      */
-    cpuas = container_of(listener, CPUAddressSpace, tcg_as_listener);
-    run_on_cpu(cpuas->cpu, do_nothing, RUN_ON_CPU_NULL);
+    if (replay_mode == REPLAY_MODE_NONE) {
+        /*
+         * VGA can make calls to this function while updating the screen.
+         * In record/replay mode this causes a deadlock, because
+         * run_on_cpu waits for rr mutex. Therefore no races are possible
+         * in this case and no need for making run_on_cpu when
+         * record/replay is not enabled.
+         */
+        cpuas = container_of(listener, CPUAddressSpace, tcg_as_listener);
+        run_on_cpu(cpuas->cpu, do_nothing, RUN_ON_CPU_NULL);
+    }
 }
 
 static void tcg_commit(MemoryListener *listener)