Currently linux-user does not correctly clean up CPU instances properly when running a threaded binary.
On thread exit, do_syscall() removes the thread's CPU from the cpus list and calls object_unref(). However, the CPU still is still referenced from the QOM tree. To correctly clean up we need to object_unparent() to remove the CPU from the QOM tree, then object_unref() to release the final reference we're holding. Once this is done, the explicit remove from the cpus list is no longer necessary, since that's done automatically in the CPU unrealize path. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> --- linux-user/syscall.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) I believe most full system targets also "leak" cpus in the same way, except that since they don't support cpu hot unplug the cpus never would have been disposed anyway. I'll look into fixing that another time. diff --git a/linux-user/syscall.c b/linux-user/syscall.c index 8bf6205..dd91791 100644 --- a/linux-user/syscall.c +++ b/linux-user/syscall.c @@ -6823,10 +6823,7 @@ abi_long do_syscall(void *cpu_env, int num, abi_long arg1, if (CPU_NEXT(first_cpu)) { TaskState *ts; - cpu_list_lock(); - /* Remove the CPU from the list. */ - QTAILQ_REMOVE(&cpus, cpu, node); - cpu_list_unlock(); + object_unparent(OBJECT(cpu)); /* Remove from QOM */ ts = cpu->opaque; if (ts->child_tidptr) { put_user_u32(0, ts->child_tidptr); @@ -6834,7 +6831,7 @@ abi_long do_syscall(void *cpu_env, int num, abi_long arg1, NULL, NULL, 0); } thread_cpu = NULL; - object_unref(OBJECT(cpu)); + object_unref(OBJECT(cpu)); /* Remove the last ref we're holding */ g_free(ts); rcu_unregister_thread(); pthread_exit(NULL); -- 2.7.4