Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] migration: Reset rather than destroy main_thread_load_event

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

* Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> On 25 August 2017 at 15:19, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
> <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> >
> > migration_incoming_state_destroy doesn't really destroy, it cleans up.
> > After a loadvm it's called, but the loadvm command can be run twice,
> > and so destroying an init-once mutex breaks on the second loadvm.
> >
> > Reported-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  migration/migration.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c
> > index c3fe0ed9ca..a625551ce5 100644
> > --- a/migration/migration.c
> > +++ b/migration/migration.c
> > @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ void migration_incoming_state_destroy(void)
> >          mis->from_src_file = NULL;
> >      }
> >
> > -    qemu_event_destroy(&mis->main_thread_load_event);
> > +    qemu_event_reset(&mis->main_thread_load_event);
> >  }
> 
> Is it worth doing more here?

In the longer-term, yes;  it seemed right just to get
this bug fixed first though.

> For instance:
>  * rename the function to something that better reflects
>    what it's doing
>  * make sure it actually goes back to the state it's in
>    after you first call migration_incoming_get_current()
>    (eg setting mis_current.state, zeroing various fields)
>  * maybe instead of a "get current state" that does a
>    reset if it's not been called before and a "destroy"
>    that does cleanup stuff (like telling the source we've
>    stopped) and also resetting back to clean state, we
>    could structure this with a function that does
>    "give me a clean completely reset state" which you
>    must call first, then use get_current() purely to
>    get the current state with no 'reset on first call'
>    semantics, and finally a "complete" function that just
>    does the "tell source we've stopped" and close
>    resources we no longer need  ?

Yes; an init/current/clean does make sense;  one of my comments
on one of Peter's patchsets was to point out the
migration_incoming_get_current isn't thread safe if you're
not sure you've already called it, so it could do with fixing.

There has also been a few things that have wanted to gather stats
that are available after the end of an incoming migration;
so we don't really want to destroy that state, we just want
to get rid of anything temporary.

You could argue that this thread_load_event is best init'd
at the start of the incoming migration and then destroyed at the
end.

> PS, in migration_incoming_get_current() we do
>         mis_current.state = MIGRATION_STATUS_NONE;
>         memset(&mis_current, 0, sizeof(MigrationIncomingState));
> 
> and the first line there is pointless because the memset
> blasts zeroes over it anyway.

Hmm yes.

Dave

> thanks
> -- PMM
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK