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Re: [Qemu-devel] possible ahci/migrate fix
From: |
Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] possible ahci/migrate fix |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:51:21 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
* Alex Bennée (address@hidden) wrote:
>
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi Alex,
> > Can you see if the attached patch fixes the ahci/migrate failure you
> > see; it won't fail for me however mean I am to it.
>
> over 2000 iterations without issue, commit before crashed within 30
>
> Tested-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
Great, just reposted as a proper patch.
> How quickly can we get this merged?
Once it gets a review-by I'm happy if someone wants to merge it directly
given the pain it's causing.
Alternatively we'll do a migration pull next week with it.
Dave
> >
> >
> > From f4c327d14d656d1c0f0e694d0efc6165493416f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:04:37 +0000
> > Subject: [PATCH] migration: Cleanup during exit
> >
> > Currently we cleanup the migration object as we exit main after the
> > main_loop finishes; however if there's a migration running things
> > get messy and we can end up with the migration thread still trying
> > to access freed structures.
> >
> > We now take a ref to the object around the migration thread itself,
> > so the act of dropping the ref during exit doesn't cause us to lose
> > the state until the thread quits.
> >
> > Cancelling the migration during migration also tries to get the thread
> > to quit.
> >
> > We do this a bit earlier; so hopefully migration gets out of the way
> > before all the devices etc are freed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > migration/migration.c | 8 ++++++++
> > vl.c | 7 ++++++-
> > 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c
> > index e44f77af02..f612313d09 100644
> > --- a/migration/migration.c
> > +++ b/migration/migration.c
> > @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ static bool migration_object_check(MigrationState *ms,
> > Error **errp);
> > static int migration_maybe_pause(MigrationState *s,
> > int *current_active_state,
> > int new_state);
> > +static void migrate_fd_cancel(MigrationState *s);
> >
> > void migration_object_init(void)
> > {
> > @@ -169,6 +170,11 @@ void migration_object_init(void)
> >
> > void migration_object_finalize(void)
> > {
> > + /*
> > + * Cancel the current migration - that will (eventually)
> > + * stop the migration using this structure
> > + */
> > + migrate_fd_cancel(current_migration);
> > object_unref(OBJECT(current_migration));
> > }
> >
> > @@ -3134,6 +3140,7 @@ static void *migration_thread(void *opaque)
> >
> > rcu_register_thread();
> >
> > + object_ref(OBJECT(s));
> > s->iteration_start_time = qemu_clock_get_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_REALTIME);
> >
> > qemu_savevm_state_header(s->to_dst_file);
> > @@ -3230,6 +3237,7 @@ static void *migration_thread(void *opaque)
> >
> > trace_migration_thread_after_loop();
> > migration_iteration_finish(s);
> > + object_unref(OBJECT(s));
> > rcu_unregister_thread();
> > return NULL;
> > }
> > diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> > index 2f340686a7..c1920165f3 100644
> > --- a/vl.c
> > +++ b/vl.c
> > @@ -4579,6 +4579,12 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
> >
> > gdbserver_cleanup();
> >
> > + /*
> > + * cleaning up the migration object cancels any existing migration
> > + * try to do this early so that it also stops using devices.
> > + */
> > + migration_object_finalize();
> > +
> > /* No more vcpu or device emulation activity beyond this point */
> > vm_shutdown();
> >
> > @@ -4594,7 +4600,6 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
> > monitor_cleanup();
> > qemu_chr_cleanup();
> > user_creatable_cleanup();
> > - migration_object_finalize();
> > /* TODO: unref root container, check all devices are ok */
> >
> > return 0;
> > --
> > 2.20.1
>
>
> --
> Alex Bennée
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK