Re: [PATCH 2/2] migration: Postpone the kick of the fault thread after recover

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Peter Xu (peterx@redhat.com) wrote:
> The new migrate_send_rp_req_pages_pending() call should greatly improve
> destination responsiveness because it will resync faulted address after
> postcopy recovery.  However it is also the 1st place to initiate the page
> request from the main thread.
> 
> One thing is overlooked on that migrate_send_rp_message_req_pages() is not
> designed to be thread-safe.  So if we wake the fault thread before syncing all
> the faulted pages in the main thread, it means they can race.
> 
> Postpone the wake up operation after the sync of faulted addresses.
> 
> Fixes: 0c26781c09 ("migration: Sync requested pages after postcopy recovery")
> Tested-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

> ---
>  migration/savevm.c | 11 ++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/migration/savevm.c b/migration/savevm.c
> index e8834991ec..5f937a2762 100644
> --- a/migration/savevm.c
> +++ b/migration/savevm.c
> @@ -2069,12 +2069,9 @@ static int loadvm_postcopy_handle_resume(MigrationIncomingState *mis)
>  
>      /*
>       * This means source VM is ready to resume the postcopy migration.
> -     * It's time to switch state and release the fault thread to
> -     * continue service page faults.
>       */
>      migrate_set_state(&mis->state, MIGRATION_STATUS_POSTCOPY_RECOVER,
>                        MIGRATION_STATUS_POSTCOPY_ACTIVE);
> -    qemu_sem_post(&mis->postcopy_pause_sem_fault);
>  
>      trace_loadvm_postcopy_handle_resume();
>  
> @@ -2095,6 +2092,14 @@ static int loadvm_postcopy_handle_resume(MigrationIncomingState *mis)
>       */
>      migrate_send_rp_req_pages_pending(mis);
>  
> +    /*
> +     * It's time to switch state and release the fault thread to continue
> +     * service page faults.  Note that this should be explicitly after the
> +     * above call to migrate_send_rp_req_pages_pending().  In short:
> +     * migrate_send_rp_message_req_pages() is not thread safe, yet.
> +     */
> +    qemu_sem_post(&mis->postcopy_pause_sem_fault);
> +
>      return 0;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.26.2
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK