Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/2] qemu-ga: execute hook to quiesce the guest on fsfreeze-freeze/thaw

[mdroth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:56:56PM +0900, Tomoki Sekiyama wrote:
> To use the online disk snapshot for online-backup, application-level
> consistency of the snapshot image is required. However, currently the
> guest agent can provide only filesystem-level consistency, and the
> snapshot may contain dirty data, for example, incomplete transactions.
> This patch provides the opportunity to quiesce applications before
> snapshot is taken.
> 
> When the qemu-ga receives fsfreeze-freeze command, the hook script
> specified in --fsfreeze-hook option is executed with "freeze" argument
> before the filesystem is frozen. For fsfreeze-thaw command, the hook
> script is executed with "thaw" argument after the filesystem is thawed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com>
> ---
>  qemu-ga.c              |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  qga/commands-posix.c   |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  qga/guest-agent-core.h |    1 +
>  3 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qemu-ga.c b/qemu-ga.c
> index 9b59a52..d1d9b89 100644
> --- a/qemu-ga.c
> +++ b/qemu-ga.c
> @@ -34,6 +34,12 @@
>  #include "qga/service-win32.h"
>  #include <windows.h>
>  #endif
> +#ifdef __linux__
> +#include <linux/fs.h>
> +#ifdef FIFREEZE
> +#define CONFIG_FSFREEZE
> +#endif
> +#endif
> 
>  #ifndef _WIN32
>  #define QGA_VIRTIO_PATH_DEFAULT "/dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0"
> @@ -42,6 +48,9 @@
>  #endif
>  #define QGA_STATEDIR_DEFAULT CONFIG_QEMU_LOCALSTATEDIR "/run"
>  #define QGA_PIDFILE_DEFAULT QGA_STATEDIR_DEFAULT "/qemu-ga.pid"
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FSFREEZE
> +#define QGA_FSFREEZE_HOOK_DEFAULT CONFIG_QEMU_CONFDIR "/fsfreeze-hook"
> +#endif
>  #define QGA_SENTINEL_BYTE 0xFF
> 
>  struct GAState {
> @@ -64,6 +73,9 @@ struct GAState {
>          const char *log_filepath;
>          const char *pid_filepath;
>      } deferred_options;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FSFREEZE
> +    const char *fsfreeze_hook;
> +#endif
>  };
> 
>  struct GAState *ga_state;
> @@ -153,6 +165,10 @@ static void usage(const char *cmd)
>  "                    %s)\n"
>  "  -l, --logfile     set logfile path, logs to stderr by default\n"
>  "  -f, --pidfile     specify pidfile (default is %s)\n"
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FSFREEZE
> +"  -F, --fsfreeze_hook\n"

Small nit, but can we change this to --fsfreeze-hook?

> +"                    specify fsfreeze hook (default is %s)\n"
> +#endif
>  "  -t, --statedir    specify dir to store state information (absolute paths\n"
>  "                    only, default is %s)\n"
>  "  -v, --verbose     log extra debugging information\n"
> @@ -167,6 +183,9 @@ static void usage(const char *cmd)
>  "\n"
>  "Report bugs to <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>\n"
>      , cmd, QEMU_VERSION, QGA_VIRTIO_PATH_DEFAULT, QGA_PIDFILE_DEFAULT,
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FSFREEZE
> +    QGA_FSFREEZE_HOOK_DEFAULT,
> +#endif
>      QGA_STATEDIR_DEFAULT);
>  }
> 
> @@ -401,6 +420,13 @@ void ga_unset_frozen(GAState *s)
>      }
>  }
> 
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FSFREEZE
> +const char *ga_fsfreeze_hook(GAState *s)
> +{
> +    return s->fsfreeze_hook;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
>  static void become_daemon(const char *pidfile)
>  {
>  #ifndef _WIN32
> @@ -678,10 +704,13 @@ VOID WINAPI service_main(DWORD argc, TCHAR *argv[])
> 
>  int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  {
> -    const char *sopt = "hVvdm:p:l:f:b:s:t:";
> +    const char *sopt = "hVvdm:p:l:f:F:b:s:t:";
>      const char *method = NULL, *path = NULL;
>      const char *log_filepath = NULL;
>      const char *pid_filepath = QGA_PIDFILE_DEFAULT;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FSFREEZE
> +    const char *fsfreeze_hook = QGA_FSFREEZE_HOOK_DEFAULT;
> +#endif
>      const char *state_dir = QGA_STATEDIR_DEFAULT;
>  #ifdef _WIN32
>      const char *service = NULL;
> @@ -691,6 +720,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>          { "version", 0, NULL, 'V' },
>          { "logfile", 1, NULL, 'l' },
>          { "pidfile", 1, NULL, 'f' },
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FSFREEZE
> +        { "fsfreeze-hook", 1, NULL, 'F' },
> +#endif
>          { "verbose", 0, NULL, 'v' },
>          { "method", 1, NULL, 'm' },
>          { "path", 1, NULL, 'p' },
> @@ -723,6 +755,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>          case 'f':
>              pid_filepath = optarg;
>              break;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FSFREEZE
> +        case 'F':
> +            fsfreeze_hook = optarg;
> +            break;
> +#endif
>          case 't':
>               state_dir = optarg;
>               break;
> @@ -786,6 +823,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>      s = g_malloc0(sizeof(GAState));
>      s->log_level = log_level;
>      s->log_file = stderr;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FSFREEZE
> +    s->fsfreeze_hook = fsfreeze_hook;
> +#endif
>      g_log_set_default_handler(ga_log, s);
>      g_log_set_fatal_mask(NULL, G_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR);
>      ga_enable_logging(s);
> diff --git a/qga/commands-posix.c b/qga/commands-posix.c
> index 726930a..8c3e341 100644
> --- a/qga/commands-posix.c
> +++ b/qga/commands-posix.c
> @@ -396,6 +396,45 @@ GuestFsfreezeStatus qmp_guest_fsfreeze_status(Error **err)
>      return GUEST_FSFREEZE_STATUS_THAWED;
>  }
> 

Rather than passing freeze/thaw in as a string, I think an enum
parameter of the form:

typedef enum {
    FSFREEZE_HOOK_THAW,    
    FSFREEZE_HOOK_FREEZE,    
} FsfreezeHook;

would be better in terms of documenting the interface.

> +static void execute_fsfreeze_hook(const char *arg)
> +{
> +    int status;
> +    pid_t pid, rpid;
> +    const char *hook;
> +
> +    hook = ga_fsfreeze_hook(ga_state);
> +    if (!hook || access(hook, X_OK) != 0) {
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    slog("executing fsfreeze hook with arg `%s'", arg);
> +    pid = fork();
> +    if (pid == 0) {
> +        setsid();
> +        reopen_fd_to_null(0);
> +        reopen_fd_to_null(1);
> +        reopen_fd_to_null(2);
> +
> +        execle(hook, hook, arg, NULL, environ);
> +        _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> +    } else if (pid < 0) {
> +        slog("execution of fsfreeze hook failed: %s", strerror(errno));
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    do {
> +        rpid = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
> +    } while (rpid == -1 && errno == EINTR);
> +    if (rpid == pid && WIFEXITED(status)) {
> +        int st = WEXITSTATUS(status);
> +        if (st) {
> +            slog("fsfreeze hook failed with status %d", st);
> +        }
> +    } else if (rpid == pid && WIFSIGNALED(status)) {
> +        slog("fsfreeze hook killed by signal %d", WTERMSIG(status));
> +    }
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Walk list of mounted file systems in the guest, and freeze the ones which
>   * are real local file systems.
> @@ -410,6 +449,8 @@ int64_t qmp_guest_fsfreeze_freeze(Error **err)
> 
>      slog("guest-fsfreeze called");
> 
> +    execute_fsfreeze_hook("freeze");
> +

I think if a user configures a pre-freeze hook, it's failure should be
treated as a failure of the fsfreeze call in general, otherwise we risk
moving forward based on false assumptions that can lead to data loss or
other issues. I think the thaw hook is okay the way it is though, they
can review the logs for any issues arising after the VM is
unfrozen.

>      QTAILQ_INIT(&mounts);
>      ret = build_fs_mount_list(&mounts);
>      if (ret < 0) {
> @@ -513,6 +554,9 @@ int64_t qmp_guest_fsfreeze_thaw(Error **err)
> 
>      ga_unset_frozen(ga_state);
>      free_fs_mount_list(&mounts);
> +
> +    execute_fsfreeze_hook("thaw");
> +
>      return i;
>  }
> 
> diff --git a/qga/guest-agent-core.h b/qga/guest-agent-core.h
> index 49a7abe..c6e8de0 100644
> --- a/qga/guest-agent-core.h
> +++ b/qga/guest-agent-core.h
> @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ void ga_set_response_delimited(GAState *s);
>  bool ga_is_frozen(GAState *s);
>  void ga_set_frozen(GAState *s);
>  void ga_unset_frozen(GAState *s);
> +const char *ga_fsfreeze_hook(GAState *s);
> 
>  #ifndef _WIN32
>  void reopen_fd_to_null(int fd);
>