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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: Peter Xu <zhexu@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Ivan Ren <renyime@gmail.com>, quintela@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: always initial RAMBlock.bmap to 1 for new migration
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:50:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190715095022.GE2689@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190715014729.GA9050@xz-x1>

* Peter Xu (zhexu@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 10:51:19PM +0800, Ivan Ren wrote:
> > Reproduce the problem:
> > migrate
> > migrate_cancel
> > migrate
> > 
> > Error happen for memory migration
> 
> Can mention "this mostly revert 0315851938 but with comments kept"
> when merge...
> 
> > 
> > The reason as follows:
> > 1. qemu start, ram_list.dirty_memory[DIRTY_MEMORY_MIGRATION] all set to
> >    1 by a series of cpu_physical_memory_set_dirty_range
> > 2. migration start:ram_init_bitmaps
> >    - memory_global_dirty_log_start: begin log diry
> >    - memory_global_dirty_log_sync: sync dirty bitmap to
> >      ram_list.dirty_memory[DIRTY_MEMORY_MIGRATION]
> >    - migration_bitmap_sync_range: sync ram_list.
> >      dirty_memory[DIRTY_MEMORY_MIGRATION] to RAMBlock.bmap
> >      and ram_list.dirty_memory[DIRTY_MEMORY_MIGRATION] is set to zero
> > 3. migration data...
> > 4. migrate_cancel, will stop log dirty
> > 5. migration start:ram_init_bitmaps
> >    - memory_global_dirty_log_start: begin log diry
> >    - memory_global_dirty_log_sync: sync dirty bitmap to
> >      ram_list.dirty_memory[DIRTY_MEMORY_MIGRATION]
> >    - migration_bitmap_sync_range: sync ram_list.
> >      dirty_memory[DIRTY_MEMORY_MIGRATION] to RAMBlock.bmap
> >      and ram_list.dirty_memory[DIRTY_MEMORY_MIGRATION] is set to zero
> > 
> >    Here RAMBlock.bmap only have new logged dirty pages, don't contain
> >    the whole guest pages.
> 
> Fixes: 03158519384f158
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ivan Ren <ivanren@tencent.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> 
> I think this is a bit severe and should be rc2 material.  Dave/Juan?

Yes agreed; I've added it to the planning/4.1 page.

> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Peter Xu
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK


  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-15  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-14 14:51 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: always initial RAMBlock.bmap to 1 for new migration Ivan Ren
2019-07-15  1:47 ` Peter Xu
2019-07-15  9:50   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2019-07-15  9:40 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-08-01  2:55 ` Wei Yang
2019-08-01  7:58   ` Ivan Ren
2019-08-02  0:50     ` Wei Yang

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