Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug?] BQL about live migration

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 03/03 09:29, Gonglei (Arei) wrote:
> Hello Juan & Dave,
> 
> We hit a bug in our test:
> Network error occurs when migrating a guest, libvirt then rollback the
> migration, causes qemu coredump
> qemu log:
> 2017-03-01T12:54:33.904949+08:00|info|qemu[17672]|[33614]|monitor_qapi_event_emit[479]|: {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1488344073, "microseconds": 904914}, "event": "STOP"}
> 2017-03-01T12:54:37.522500+08:00|info|qemu[17672]|[17672]|handle_qmp_command[3930]|: qmp_cmd_name: migrate_cancel
> 2017-03-01T12:54:37.522607+08:00|info|qemu[17672]|[17672]|monitor_qapi_event_emit[479]|: {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1488344077, "microseconds": 522556}, "event": "MIGRATION", "data": {"status": "cancelling"}}
> 2017-03-01T12:54:37.524671+08:00|info|qemu[17672]|[17672]|handle_qmp_command[3930]|: qmp_cmd_name: cont
> 2017-03-01T12:54:37.524733+08:00|info|qemu[17672]|[17672]|virtio_set_status[725]|: virtio-balloon device status is 7 that means DRIVER OK
> 2017-03-01T12:54:37.525434+08:00|info|qemu[17672]|[17672]|virtio_set_status[725]|: virtio-net device status is 7 that means DRIVER OK
> 2017-03-01T12:54:37.525484+08:00|info|qemu[17672]|[17672]|virtio_set_status[725]|: virtio-blk device status is 7 that means DRIVER OK
> 2017-03-01T12:54:37.525562+08:00|info|qemu[17672]|[17672]|virtio_set_status[725]|: virtio-serial device status is 7 that means DRIVER OK
> 2017-03-01T12:54:37.527653+08:00|info|qemu[17672]|[17672]|vm_start[981]|: vm_state-notify:3ms
> 2017-03-01T12:54:37.528523+08:00|info|qemu[17672]|[17672]|monitor_qapi_event_emit[479]|: {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1488344077, "microseconds": 527699}, "event": "RESUME"}
> 2017-03-01T12:54:37.530680+08:00|info|qemu[17672]|[33614]|migration_bitmap_sync[720]|: this iteration cycle takes 3s, new dirtied data:0MB
> 2017-03-01T12:54:37.530909+08:00|info|qemu[17672]|[33614]|monitor_qapi_event_emit[479]|: {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1488344077, "microseconds": 530733}, "event": "MIGRATION_PASS", "data": {"pass": 3}}
> 2017-03-01T04:54:37.530997Z qemu-kvm: socket_writev_buffer: Got err=32 for (131583/18446744073709551615)
> qemu-kvm: /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/qemu-kvm-2.6.0/hw/net/virtio_net.c:1519: virtio_net_save: Assertion `!n->vhost_started' failed.
> 2017-03-01 12:54:43.028: shutting down
> 
> From qemu log, qemu received and processed migrate_cancel/cont qmp commands
> after guest been stopped and entered the last round of migration. Then
> migration thread try to save device state when guest is running(started by
> cont command), causes assert and coredump.
> This is because in last iter, we call cpu_synchronize_all_states() to
> synchronize vcpu states, this call will release qemu_global_mutex and wait
> for do_kvm_cpu_synchronize_state() to be executed on target vcpu:
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007f763d1046d5 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> #1  0x00007f7643e51d7f in qemu_cond_wait (cond=0x7f764445eca0 <qemu_work_cond>, mutex=0x7f764445eba0 <qemu_global_mutex>) at util/qemu-thread-posix.c:132
> #2  0x00007f7643a2e154 in run_on_cpu (cpu=0x7f7644e06d80, func=0x7f7643a46413 <do_kvm_cpu_synchronize_state>, data=0x7f7644e06d80) at /mnt/public/yanghy/qemu-kvm/cpus.c:995
> #3  0x00007f7643a46487 in kvm_cpu_synchronize_state (cpu=0x7f7644e06d80) at /mnt/public/yanghy/qemu-kvm/kvm-all.c:1805
> #4  0x00007f7643a2c700 in cpu_synchronize_state (cpu=0x7f7644e06d80) at /mnt/public/yanghy/qemu-kvm/include/sysemu/kvm.h:457
> #5  0x00007f7643a2db0c in cpu_synchronize_all_states () at /mnt/public/yanghy/qemu-kvm/cpus.c:766
> #6  0x00007f7643a67b5b in qemu_savevm_state_complete_precopy (f=0x7f76462f2d30, iterable_only=false) at /mnt/public/yanghy/qemu-kvm/migration/savevm.c:1051
> #7  0x00007f7643d121e9 in migration_completion (s=0x7f76443e78c0 <current_migration.37571>, current_active_state=4, old_vm_running=0x7f74343fda00, start_time=0x7f74343fda08) at migration/migration.c:1753
> #8  0x00007f7643d126c5 in migration_thread (opaque=0x7f76443e78c0 <current_migration.37571>) at migration/migration.c:1922
> #9  0x00007f763d100dc5 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> #10 0x00007f763ce2e71d in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> (gdb) p iothread_locked
> $1 = true
> 
> and then, qemu main thread been executed, it won't block because migration
> thread released the qemu_global_mutex:
> (gdb) thr 1
> [Switching to thread 1 (Thread 0x7fe298e08bc0 (LWP 30767))]
> #0  os_host_main_loop_wait (timeout=931565) at main-loop.c:270
> 270                 QEMU_LOG(LOG_INFO,"***** after qemu_pool_ns: timeout %d\n", timeout);
> (gdb) p iothread_locked
> $2 = true
> (gdb) l 268
> 263
> 264         ret = qemu_poll_ns((GPollFD *)gpollfds->data, gpollfds->len, timeout);
> 265
> 266
> 267         if (timeout) {
> 268             qemu_mutex_lock_iothread();
> 269             if (runstate_check(RUN_STATE_FINISH_MIGRATE)) {
> 270                 QEMU_LOG(LOG_INFO,"***** after qemu_pool_ns: timeout %d\n", timeout);
> 271             }
> 272         }
> (gdb)
> 
> So, although we've hold iothread_lock in stop&copy phase of migration, we
> can't guarantee the iothread been locked all through the stop & copy phase,
> any thoughts on how to solve this problem?

Could you post a backtrace of the assertion?

Fam