On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 2:07 PM Markus Armbruster <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Jason Wang <[email protected]> writes:
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> > On Sun, Jul 9, 2023 at 11:48 PM Bin Meng <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 11:29 PM Bin Meng <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Current codes using a brute-force traversal of all file descriptors
> >> > do not scale on a system where the maximum number of file descriptors
> >> > is set to a very large value (e.g.: in a Docker container of Manjaro
> >> > distribution it is set to 1073741816). QEMU just looks frozen during
> >> > start-up.
> >> >
> >> > The close-on-exec flag (O_CLOEXEC) was introduced since Linux kernel
> >> > 2.6.23, FreeBSD 8.3, OpenBSD 5.0, Solaris 11. While it's true QEMU
> >> > doesn't need to manually close the fds for child process as the proper
> >> > O_CLOEXEC flag should have been set properly on files with its own
> >> > codes, QEMU uses a huge number of 3rd party libraries and we don't
> >> > trust them to reliably be using O_CLOEXEC on everything they open.
> >> >
> >> > Modern Linux and BSDs have the close_range() call we can use to do the
> >> > job, and on Linux we have one more way to walk through /proc/self/fd
> >> > to complete the task efficiently, which is what qemu_close_range()
> >> > does, a new API we add in util/osdep.c.
> >> >
> >> > V1 link: 
> >> > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]/
> >> >
> >> > Changes in v4:
> >> > - add 'first > last' check logic
> >> > - reorder the ifdefs logic
> >> > - change i to unsigned int type
> >> > - use qemu_strtoi() instead of atoi()
> >> > - limit last upper value to sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) - 1
> >> > - call sysconf directly instead of using a variable
> >> > - put fd on its own line
> >> >
> >> > Changes in v3:
> >> > - fix win32 build failure
> >> > - limit the last_fd of qemu_close_range() to sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX)
> >> >
> >> > Changes in v2:
> >> > - new patch: "tests/tcg/cris: Fix the coding style"
> >> > - new patch: "tests/tcg/cris: Correct the off-by-one error"
> >> > - new patch: "util/async-teardown: Fall back to close fds one by one"
> >> > - new patch: "util/osdep: Introduce qemu_close_range()"
> >> > - new patch: "util/async-teardown: Use qemu_close_range() to close fds"
> >> > - Change to use qemu_close_range() to close fds for child process 
> >> > efficiently
> >> > - v1 link: 
> >> > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]/
> >> >
> >> > Bin Meng (4):
> >> >   tests/tcg/cris: Fix the coding style
> >> >   tests/tcg/cris: Correct the off-by-one error
> >> >   util/async-teardown: Fall back to close fds one by one
> >> >   util/osdep: Introduce qemu_close_range()
> >> >
> >> > Zhangjin Wu (2):
> >> >   util/async-teardown: Use qemu_close_range() to close fds
> >> >   net: tap: Use qemu_close_range() to close fds
> >> >
> >>
> >> Ping for 8.1?
> >
> > Queued.
>
> There are review questions open on PATCH 4+5.

Sorry, I missed that. I've dropped them from the queue now.

Thanks

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