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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] migration/postcopy: check PostcopyState before settin
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] migration/postcopy: check PostcopyState before setting to POSTCOPY_INCOMING_RUNNING |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:12:09 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15) |
* Wei Yang (address@hidden) wrote:
> Currently, we set PostcopyState blindly to RUNNING, even we found the
> previous state is not LISTENING. This will lead to a corner case.
>
> First let's look at the code flow:
>
> qemu_loadvm_state_main()
> ret = loadvm_process_command()
> loadvm_postcopy_handle_run()
> return -1;
> if (ret < 0) {
> if (postcopy_state_get() == POSTCOPY_INCOMING_RUNNING)
> ...
> }
>
> >From above snippet, the corner case is loadvm_postcopy_handle_run()
> always sets state to RUNNING. And then it checks the previous state. If
> the previous state is not LISTENING, it will return -1. But at this
> moment, PostcopyState is already been set to RUNNING.
>
> Then ret is checked in qemu_loadvm_state_main(), when it is -1
> PostcopyState is checked. Current logic would pause postcopy and retry
> if PostcopyState is RUNNING. This is not what we expect, because
> postcopy is not active yet.
>
> This patch makes sure state is set to RUNNING only previous state is
> LISTENING by checking the state first.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <address@hidden>
> Suggested by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> ---
> migration/savevm.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/migration/savevm.c b/migration/savevm.c
> index 78c2965ca4..b9f30a7090 100644
> --- a/migration/savevm.c
> +++ b/migration/savevm.c
> @@ -1934,7 +1934,7 @@ static void loadvm_postcopy_handle_run_bh(void *opaque)
> /* After all discards we can start running and asking for pages */
> static int loadvm_postcopy_handle_run(MigrationIncomingState *mis)
> {
> - PostcopyState ps = postcopy_state_set(POSTCOPY_INCOMING_RUNNING);
> + PostcopyState ps = postcopy_state_get();
>
> trace_loadvm_postcopy_handle_run();
> if (ps != POSTCOPY_INCOMING_LISTENING) {
> @@ -1942,6 +1942,7 @@ static int
> loadvm_postcopy_handle_run(MigrationIncomingState *mis)
> return -1;
> }
>
> + postcopy_state_set(POSTCOPY_INCOMING_RUNNING);
> mis->bh = qemu_bh_new(loadvm_postcopy_handle_run_bh, mis);
> qemu_bh_schedule(mis->bh);
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK