Re: [Qemu-devel] Devdax backend for vnvdimm not working

[Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 08:13:27PM +0000, Kamal Kakri via Qemu-devel wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a namespace (backed by real nvdimm h/w) configured in devdax mode:
># ndctl list -N -n namespace0.0
>[
>  {
>    "dev":"namespace0.0",
>    "mode":"devdax",
>    "map":"dev",
>    "size":16909336576,
>    "uuid":"e5265c0a-d902-41ce-b1d1-87a78c358aa4",
>    "chardev":"dax0.0"
>  }
>]
>

Above is your host configuration, right?

>
>When I try to configure my vm using "virsh" with something like this:
>    <memory model='nvdimm' access='shared'>
>      <source>
>        <path>/dev/dax0.0</path>
>        <align unit='KiB'>2048</align>
>        <pmem/>
>      </source>
>      <target>
>        <size unit='KiB'>2097152</size>
>        <node>0</node>
>      </target>
>      <alias name='nvdimm0'/>
>      <address type='dimm' slot='0'/>
>    </memory>
>

I am not familiar with virsh, while I guess align here is the parameter passed
to qemu.

Hmm...  as I being told, the alignment should be 128M.

>
>I get an error while starting my vm:
># virsh start fox22vm
>start: domain(optdata): fox22vm
>start: found option <domain>: fox22vm
>start: <domain> trying as domain NAME
>error: Failed to start domain fox22vm
>error: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: ftruncate: Invalid argument
>2019-01-15T18:00:36.587467Z qemu-kvm: -object memory-backend-file,id=memnvdimm0,prealloc=yes,mem-path=/dev/dax0.0,share=yes,size=2147483648: unable to map backing store for guest RAM: Invalid argument

The error message here shows the error is caused by mmap for an invalid
argument. Hmm... but I am not sure which one is incorrect.


Usually I run qemu directly, here is a qemu command line which works at my
side:

qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine pc,nvdimm \
	-m 6G,slots=4,maxmem=128G -smp 8 --enable-kvm \
	-drive file=/home/richard/guest/fedora29.img,format=raw -nographic \
	-drive file=/home/richard/guest/project.img,format=raw \
	-object memory-backend-file,id=mem1,share=on,mem-path=/dev/dax0.0,size=10G,align=128M \
	-device nvdimm,id=nvdimm1,memdev=mem1,label-size=128k

Maybe you can compare the difference between your virsh result to see the
difference.

>
>I have tried to add "align unit" to my virsh xml but it does not seem to pass it onto qemu (as much as I can see from the qemu cmd line in the logs at /var/log/libvirt/qemu)
>
>
>Can anyone pls hint as to what possibly could be the issue ? Is this alignment related or something else ?
>
>Here are my versions:
># virsh --version
>4.5.0
>[root@fox22hv libexec]# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm --version
>QEMU emulator version 2.12.0 (qemu-kvm-rhev-2.12.0-18.el7_6.1)
>Copyright (c) 2003-2017 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
># uname -a
>Linux fox22hv 4.19.0-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 22 10:40:32 EDT 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
>

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