Re: Windows 2008 Guest BSODS with CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT on VM migration

["Zhang Haoyu" <zhanghy@sangfor.com.cn>]

On 2015-01-28 03:10:23, Jidong Xiao wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Mikhail Sennikovskii
> <mikhail.sennikovskii@profitbricks.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
>>
> > I've posted the bolow mail to the qemu-dev mailing list, but I've got no
> > response there.
> > That's why I decided to re-post it here as well, and besides that I think
> > this could be a kvm-specific issue as well.
> >
> > Some additional thing to note:
> > I can reproduce the issue on my Debian 7 with 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 kernel as
> > well.
> > I would typically use a max_downtime adjusted to 1 second instead of default
> > 30 ms.
> > I also noticed that the issue happens much more rarelly if I increase the
> > migration bandwidth, i.e. like
> >
> > diff --git a/migration.c b/migration.c
> > index 26f4b65..d2e3b39 100644
>> --- a/migration.c
> > +++ b/migration.c
> > @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ enum {
> >      MIG_STATE_COMPLETED,
> >  };
> >
> > -#define MAX_THROTTLE  (32 << 20)      /* Migration speed throttling */
> > +#define MAX_THROTTLE  (90 << 20)      /* Migration speed throttling */
> >
> > Like I said below, I would be glad to provide you with any additional
> > information.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mikhail
> >
> Hi, Mikhail,
>
> So if you choose to use one vcpu, instead of smp, this issue would not
> happen, right?
> 
I think you can try cpu feature hv_relaxed, like
-cpu Haswell,hv_relaxed

> -Jidong
> 
> > On 23.01.2015 15:03, Mikhail Sennikovskii wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I'm running a slitely modified migration over tcp test in virt-test, which
> >> does a migration from one "smp=2" VM to another on the same host over TCP,
> >> and exposes some dummy CPU load inside the GUEST while migration, and
> >> after a series of runs I'm alwais getting a CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT BSOD
> >> inside the guest,
> >> which happens when
>>> "
> >> An expected clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor in
> >> an
> >> MP system within the allocated interval. This indicates that the specified
> >> processor is hung and not processing interrupts.
> >> "
> >>
> >> This seems to happen with any qemu version I've tested (1.2 and above,
> >> including upstream),
> >> and I was testing it with 3.13.0-44-generic kernel on my Ubuntu 14.04.1
> >> LTS with SMP4 host, as well as on 3.12.26-1 kernel with Debian 6 with SMP6
> >> host.
> >>
> >> One thing I noticed is that exposing a dummy CPU load on the HOST (like
> >> running multiple instances of the "while true; do false; done" script) in
> >> parallel with doing migration makes the issue to be quite easily
>>> reproducible.
> >>
> >>
> >> Looking inside the windows crash dump, the second CPU is just running at
> >> IRQL 0, and it aparently not hung, as Windows is able to save its state in
> >> the crash dump correctly, which assumes running some code on it.
> >> So this aparently seems to be some timing issue (like host scheduler does
> >> not schedule the thread executing secondary CPU's code in time).
> >>
> >> Could you give me some insight on this, i.e. is there a way to customize
> >> QEMU/KVM to avoid such issue?
> >>
> >> If you think this might be a qemu/kvm issue, I can provide you any info,
> >> like windows crash dumps, or the test-case to reproduce this.
> >>
> >>
>>> qemu is started as:
> >>
> >> from-VM:
> >>
> >> qemu-system-x86_64 \
> >>     -S  \
> >>     -name 'virt-tests-vm1'  \
> >>     -sandbox off  \
> >>     -M pc-1.0  \
> >>     -nodefaults  \
> >>     -vga std  \
> >>     -chardev
> >> socket,id=qmp_id_qmp1,path=/tmp/monitor-qmp1-20150123-112624-aFZmIkNT,server,nowait
> >> \
> >>     -mon chardev=qmp_id_qmp1,mode=control  \
> >>     -chardev
>>> socket,id=serial_id_serial0,path=/tmp/serial-serial0-20150123-112624-aFZmIkNT,server,nowait
> >> \
> >>     -device isa-serial,chardev=serial_id_serial0  \
> >>     -chardev
> >> socket,id=seabioslog_id_20150123-112624-aFZmIkNT,path=/tmp/seabios-20150123-112624-aFZmIkNT,server,nowait
> >> \
> >>     -device
> >> isa-debugcon,chardev=seabioslog_id_20150123-112624-aFZmIkNT,iobase=0x402 \
> >>     -device ich9-usb-uhci1,id=usb1,bus=pci.0,addr=03 \
> >>     -drive id=drive_image1,if=none,file=/path/to/image.qcow2 \
> >>     -device
> >> virtio-blk-pci,id=image1,drive=drive_image1,bootindex=0,bus=pci.0,addr=04 \
> >>     -device
> >> virtio-net-pci,mac=9a:74:75:76:77:78,id=idFdaC4M,vectors=4,netdev=idKFZNXH,bus=pci.0,addr=05
> >> \
> >>     -netdev
>>> user,id=idKFZNXH,hostfwd=tcp::5000-:22,hostfwd=tcp::5001-:10023  \
> >>     -m 2G  \
> >>     -smp 2,maxcpus=2,cores=1,threads=1,sockets=2  \
> >>     -cpu phenom \
> >>     -device usb-tablet,id=usb-tablet1,bus=usb1.0,port=1  \
> >>     -vnc :0  \
> >>     -rtc base=localtime,clock=host,driftfix=none  \
> >>     -boot order=cdn,once=c,menu=off \
> >>     -enable-kvm
> >>
> >> to-VM:
> >>
> >> qemu-system-x86_64 \
> >>     -S  \
> >>     -name 'virt-tests-vm1'  \
> >>     -sandbox off  \
>>>     -M pc-1.0  \
> >>     -nodefaults  \
> >>     -vga std  \
> >>     -chardev
> >> socket,id=qmp_id_qmp1,path=/tmp/monitor-qmp1-20150123-112750-VehjvEqK,server,nowait
> >> \
> >>     -mon chardev=qmp_id_qmp1,mode=control  \
> >>     -chardev
> >> socket,id=serial_id_serial0,path=/tmp/serial-serial0-20150123-112750-VehjvEqK,server,nowait
> >> \
> >>     -device isa-serial,chardev=serial_id_serial0  \
> >>     -chardev
> >> socket,id=seabioslog_id_20150123-112750-VehjvEqK,path=/tmp/seabios-20150123-112750-VehjvEqK,server,nowait
> >> \
> >>     -device
> >> isa-debugcon,chardev=seabioslog_id_20150123-112750-VehjvEqK,iobase=0x402 \
>>>     -device ich9-usb-uhci1,id=usb1,bus=pci.0,addr=03 \
> >>     -drive id=drive_image1,if=none,file=/path/to/image.qcow2 \
> >>     -device
> >> virtio-blk-pci,id=image1,drive=drive_image1,bootindex=0,bus=pci.0,addr=04 \
> >>     -device
> >> virtio-net-pci,mac=9a:74:75:76:77:78,id=idI46M9C,vectors=4,netdev=idl9vRQt,bus=pci.0,addr=05
> >> \
> >>     -netdev
> >> user,id=idl9vRQt,hostfwd=tcp::5002-:22,hostfwd=tcp::5003-:10023  \
> >>     -m 2G  \
> >>     -smp 2,maxcpus=2,cores=1,threads=1,sockets=2  \
> >>     -cpu phenom \
> >>     -device usb-tablet,id=usb-tablet1,bus=usb1.0,port=1  \
> >>     -vnc :1  \
> >>     -rtc base=localtime,clock=host,driftfix=none  \
> >>     -boot order=cdn,once=c,menu=off \
>>>     -enable-kvm \
> >>     -incoming tcp:0:5200
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mikhail