Re: [PULL 00/18] migration queue

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 06:20:54PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 at 17:55, Dr. David Alan Gilbert
> > <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> > > > One thing that makes this bug investigation trickier, incidentally,
> > > > is that the migration-test code seems to depend on userfaultfd.
> > > > That means you can't run it under 'rr'.
> > >
> > > That should only be the postcopy tests; the others shouldn't use that.
> > 
> > tests/qtest/migration-test.c:main() exits immediately without adding
> > any of the test cases if ufd_version_check() fails, so no userfaultfd
> > means no tests run at all, currently.
> 
> Ouch! I could swear we had a fix for that.
> 
> Anyway, it would be really good to see what migrate-query was returning;
> if it's stuck in running or cancelling then it's a problem with multifd
> that needs to learn to let go if someone is trying to cancel.
> If it's failed or similar then the test needs fixing to not lockup.

This patch of mine may well be helpful:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-03/msg03192.html

when debugging my TLS tests various mistakes meant I ended up with
a failed session, but the test was spinning forever on 'query-migrate'.
It was waiting for it to finish one iteration, and never bothering to
validate that the reported status == active.

If that patch was merged, it might well cause the test to abort in an
assertion rather than spining forever, if status == failed.

Of course someone would still need to find out why it failed, but
none the less, I think assert is nicer than spin forever.

Regards,
Daniel
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