From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] migration: qemu-coroutine-lock.c:141: qemu_co_mutex_unlock: Assertion `mutex->locked == 1' failed
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:47:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140919084703.GA7667@noname.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5418343A.1050600@redhat.com>
Am 16.09.2014 um 14:59 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
> Il 16/09/2014 14:52, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
> > Yes, that's true. We can't fix this problem in qcow2, though, because
> > it's a more general one. I think we must make sure that
> > bdrv_invalidate_cache() doesn't yield.
> >
> > Either by forbidding to run bdrv_invalidate_cache() in a coroutine and
> > moving the problem to the caller (where and why is it even called from a
> > coroutine?), or possibly by creating a new coroutine for the driver
> > callback and running that in a nested event loop that only handles
> > bdrv_invalidate_cache() callbacks, so that the NBD server doesn't get a
> > chance to process new requests in this thread.
>
> Incoming migration runs in a coroutine (the coroutine entry point is
> process_incoming_migration_co). But everything after qemu_fclose() can
> probably be moved into a separate bottom half, so that it gets out of
> coroutine context.
Alexey, you should probably rather try this (and add a bdrv_drain_all()
in bdrv_invalidate_cache) than messing around with qcow2 locks. This
isn't a problem that can be completely fixed in qcow2.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-19 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-15 10:50 [Qemu-devel] migration: qemu-coroutine-lock.c:141: qemu_co_mutex_unlock: Assertion `mutex->locked == 1' failed Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-16 12:02 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-16 12:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 12:34 ` Kevin Wolf
2014-09-16 12:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 12:52 ` Kevin Wolf
2014-09-16 12:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-19 8:47 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2014-09-23 8:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qcow2: Fix race in cache invalidation Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-24 7:30 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-24 9:48 ` Kevin Wolf
2014-09-25 8:41 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-25 8:57 ` Kevin Wolf
2014-09-25 9:55 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-25 10:20 ` Kevin Wolf
2014-09-25 12:29 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-25 12:39 ` Kevin Wolf
2014-09-25 14:05 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-28 11:14 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-17 6:46 ` [Qemu-devel] migration: qemu-coroutine-lock.c:141: qemu_co_mutex_unlock: Assertion `mutex->locked == 1' failed Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-16 14:52 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-17 9:06 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-09-17 9:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-17 13:44 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-17 15:07 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-09-18 3:26 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-18 9:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-19 8:23 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-17 15:04 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-09-17 15:17 ` Eric Blake
2014-09-17 15:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
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