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From: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, mhohmann@physnet.uni-hamburg.de,
	berrange@redhat.com, ehabkost@redhat.com, qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] hostmem: don't use mbind() if host-nodes is epmty
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:46:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200430154606.6421-1-imammedo@redhat.com> (raw)

Since 5.0 QEMU uses hostmem backend for allocating main guest RAM.
The backend however calls mbind() which is typically NOP
in case of default policy/absent host-nodes bitmap.
However when runing in container with black-listed mbind()
syscall, QEMU fails to start with error
 "cannot bind memory to host NUMA nodes: Operation not permitted"
even when user hasn't provided host-nodes to pin to explictly
(which is the case with -m option)

To fix issue, call mbind() only in case when user has provided
host-nodes explicitly (i.e. host_nodes bitmap is not empty).
That should allow to run QEMU in containers with black-listed
mbind() without memory pinning. If QEMU provided memory-pinning
is required user still has to white-list mbind() in container
configuration.

Reported-by: Manuel Hohmann <mhohmann@physnet.uni-hamburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
---
CC: berrange@redhat.com
CC: ehabkost@redhat.com
CC: pbonzini@redhat.com
CC: mhohmann@physnet.uni-hamburg.de
CC: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
---
 backends/hostmem.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backends/hostmem.c b/backends/hostmem.c
index 327f9eebc3..0efd7b7bd6 100644
--- a/backends/hostmem.c
+++ b/backends/hostmem.c
@@ -383,8 +383,10 @@ host_memory_backend_memory_complete(UserCreatable *uc, Error **errp)
         assert(sizeof(backend->host_nodes) >=
                BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NODES + 1) * sizeof(unsigned long));
         assert(maxnode <= MAX_NODES);
-        if (mbind(ptr, sz, backend->policy,
-                  maxnode ? backend->host_nodes : NULL, maxnode + 1, flags)) {
+
+        if (maxnode &&
+            mbind(ptr, sz, backend->policy, backend->host_nodes, maxnode + 1,
+                  flags)) {
             if (backend->policy != MPOL_DEFAULT || errno != ENOSYS) {
                 error_setg_errno(errp, errno,
                                  "cannot bind memory to host NUMA nodes");
-- 
2.18.1



             reply	other threads:[~2020-04-30 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-30 15:46 Igor Mammedov [this message]
2020-04-30 16:42 ` [PATCH] hostmem: don't use mbind() if host-nodes is epmty Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-01  7:28   ` Manuel Hohmann
2020-05-01  8:57 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-05-04 14:31   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-04 15:44 ` Eduardo Habkost
2020-05-11 16:00   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-11 19:24     ` Igor Mammedov
2020-05-11 20:03       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé

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