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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Tweaks around virtio-blk start/stop


From: tu bo
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Tweaks around virtio-blk start/stop
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:10:02 +0800
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Hi Fam:

On 03/21/2016 06:57 PM, Fam Zheng wrote:
On Thu, 03/17 19:03, tu bo wrote:

On 03/17/2016 08:39 AM, Fam Zheng wrote:
On Wed, 03/16 14:45, Paolo Bonzini wrote:


On 16/03/2016 14:38, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
If you just remove the calls to virtio_queue_host_notifier_read, here
and in virtio_queue_aio_set_host_notifier_fd_handler, does it work
(keeping patches 2-4 in)?

With these changes and patch 2-4 it does no longer locks up.
I keep it running some hour to check if a crash happens.

Tu Bo, your setup is currently better suited for reproducing. Can you also 
check?

Great, I'll prepare a patch to virtio then sketching the solution that
Conny agreed with.

While Fam and I agreed that patch 1 is not required, I'm not sure if the
mutex is necessary in the end.

If we can fix this from the virtio_queue_host_notifier_read side, the mutex/BH
are not necessary; but OTOH the mutex does catch such bugs, so maybe it's good
to have it. I'm not sure about the BH.

And on a hindsight I realize we don't want patches 2-3 too. Actually the
begin/end pair won't work as expected because of the blk_set_aio_context.

Let's hold on this series.


So if Tu Bo can check without the virtio_queue_host_notifier_read calls,
and both with/without Fam's patches, it would be great.

Tu Bo, only with/withoug patch 4, if you want to check. Sorry for the noise.

1. without the virtio_queue_host_notifier_read calls,  without patch 4

crash happens very often,

(gdb) bt
#0  bdrv_co_do_rw (opaque=0x0) at block/io.c:2172
#1  0x000002aa165da37e in coroutine_trampoline (i0=<optimized out>,
i1=1812051552) at util/coroutine-ucontext.c:79
#2  0x000003ff7dd5150a in __makecontext_ret () from /lib64/libc.so.6


2. without the virtio_queue_host_notifier_read calls, with patch 4

crash happens very often,

(gdb) bt
#0  bdrv_co_do_rw (opaque=0x0) at block/io.c:2172
#1  0x000002aa39dda43e in coroutine_trampoline (i0=<optimized out>,
i1=-1677715600) at util/coroutine-ucontext.c:79
#2  0x000003ffab6d150a in __makecontext_ret () from /lib64/libc.so.6



Tu Bo,

Could you help test this patch (on top of master, without patch 4)?

diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
index 08275a9..47f8043 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -1098,7 +1098,14 @@ void virtio_queue_notify_vq(VirtQueue *vq)

  void virtio_queue_notify(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n)
  {
-    virtio_queue_notify_vq(&vdev->vq[n]);
+    VirtQueue *vq = &vdev->vq[n];
+    EventNotifier *n;
+    n = virtio_queue_get_host_notifier(vq);
+    if (n) {
+        event_notifier_set(n);
+    } else {
+        virtio_queue_notify_vq(vq);
+    }
  }

  uint16_t virtio_queue_vector(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n)



I got a build error as below,

/BUILD/qemu-2.5.50/hw/virtio/virtio.c: In function 'virtio_queue_notify':
/BUILD/qemu-2.5.50/hw/virtio/virtio.c:1102:20: error: 'n' redeclared as different kind of symbol
     EventNotifier *n;
                    ^
/BUILD/qemu-2.5.50/hw/virtio/virtio.c:1099:50: note: previous definition of 'n' was here
 void virtio_queue_notify(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n)


Then I did some change for your patch as below,
diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
index 08275a9..a10da39 100644
--- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
+++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
@@ -1098,7 +1098,14 @@ void virtio_queue_notify_vq(VirtQueue *vq)

 void virtio_queue_notify(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n)
 {
-    virtio_queue_notify_vq(&vdev->vq[n]);
+    VirtQueue *vq = &vdev->vq[n];
+    EventNotifier *en;
+    en = virtio_queue_get_host_notifier(vq);
+    if (en) {
+        event_notifier_set(en);
+    } else {
+        virtio_queue_notify_vq(vq);
+    }
 }

 uint16_t virtio_queue_vector(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n)

With qemu master + modified patch above(without patch 4, without Conny's patches), I did NOT get crash so far. thanks








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