* [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
@ 2015-11-09 3:10 Alexandre DERUMIER
2015-11-09 3:23 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
2015-11-09 7:19 ` Denis V. Lunev
0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Alexandre DERUMIER @ 2015-11-09 3:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ceph-devel, qemu-devel
Hi,
with qemu (2.4.1), if I do an internal snapshot of an rbd device,
then I pause the vm with vm_stop,
the qemu process is hanging forever
monitor commands to reproduce:
# snapshot_blkdev_internal drive-virtio0 yoursnapname
# stop
I don't see this with qcow2 or sheepdog block driver for example.
Regards,
Alexandre
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
2015-11-09 3:10 [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever Alexandre DERUMIER
@ 2015-11-09 3:23 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
2015-11-09 3:54 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
2015-11-09 7:19 ` Denis V. Lunev
1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Alexandre DERUMIER @ 2015-11-09 3:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ceph-devel, qemu-devel
Some other infos:
I can reproduce it too with manual snapshot with rbd command
#rbd --image myrbdvolume snap create --snap snap1
qemu monitor:
#stop
This is with ceph hammer 0.94.5.
in qemu vm_stop, the only thing related to block driver are
bdrv_drain_all();
ret = bdrv_flush_all();
----- Mail original -----
De: "aderumier" <aderumier@odiso.com>
À: "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Envoyé: Lundi 9 Novembre 2015 04:10:45
Objet: qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
Hi,
with qemu (2.4.1), if I do an internal snapshot of an rbd device,
then I pause the vm with vm_stop,
the qemu process is hanging forever
monitor commands to reproduce:
# snapshot_blkdev_internal drive-virtio0 yoursnapname
# stop
I don't see this with qcow2 or sheepdog block driver for example.
Regards,
Alexandre
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
2015-11-09 3:23 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
@ 2015-11-09 3:54 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
2015-11-09 4:18 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Alexandre DERUMIER @ 2015-11-09 3:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ceph-devel, qemu-devel
Also,
this occur only with rbd_cache=false or qemu drive cache=none.
If I use rbd_cache=true or qemu drive cache=writeback, I don't have this bug.
----- Mail original -----
De: "aderumier" <aderumier@odiso.com>
À: "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Envoyé: Lundi 9 Novembre 2015 04:23:10
Objet: Re: qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
Some other infos:
I can reproduce it too with manual snapshot with rbd command
#rbd --image myrbdvolume snap create --snap snap1
qemu monitor:
#stop
This is with ceph hammer 0.94.5.
in qemu vm_stop, the only thing related to block driver are
bdrv_drain_all();
ret = bdrv_flush_all();
----- Mail original -----
De: "aderumier" <aderumier@odiso.com>
À: "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Envoyé: Lundi 9 Novembre 2015 04:10:45
Objet: qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
Hi,
with qemu (2.4.1), if I do an internal snapshot of an rbd device,
then I pause the vm with vm_stop,
the qemu process is hanging forever
monitor commands to reproduce:
# snapshot_blkdev_internal drive-virtio0 yoursnapname
# stop
I don't see this with qcow2 or sheepdog block driver for example.
Regards,
Alexandre
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
2015-11-09 3:54 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
@ 2015-11-09 4:18 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
0 siblings, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Alexandre DERUMIER @ 2015-11-09 4:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ceph-devel, qemu-devel
Something is really wrong,
because guest is also freezing, with a simple snapshot, with cache=none / rbd_cache=false
qemu monitor : snapshot_blkdev_internal drive-virtio0 snap1
or
rbd command : rbd --image myrbdvolume snap create --snap snap1
Then the guest can't read/write to disk anymore.
I have tested with last ceph internalis, same problem
----- Mail original -----
De: "aderumier" <aderumier@odiso.com>
À: "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Envoyé: Lundi 9 Novembre 2015 04:54:23
Objet: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
Also,
this occur only with rbd_cache=false or qemu drive cache=none.
If I use rbd_cache=true or qemu drive cache=writeback, I don't have this bug.
----- Mail original -----
De: "aderumier" <aderumier@odiso.com>
À: "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Envoyé: Lundi 9 Novembre 2015 04:23:10
Objet: Re: qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
Some other infos:
I can reproduce it too with manual snapshot with rbd command
#rbd --image myrbdvolume snap create --snap snap1
qemu monitor:
#stop
This is with ceph hammer 0.94.5.
in qemu vm_stop, the only thing related to block driver are
bdrv_drain_all();
ret = bdrv_flush_all();
----- Mail original -----
De: "aderumier" <aderumier@odiso.com>
À: "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Envoyé: Lundi 9 Novembre 2015 04:10:45
Objet: qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
Hi,
with qemu (2.4.1), if I do an internal snapshot of an rbd device,
then I pause the vm with vm_stop,
the qemu process is hanging forever
monitor commands to reproduce:
# snapshot_blkdev_internal drive-virtio0 yoursnapname
# stop
I don't see this with qcow2 or sheepdog block driver for example.
Regards,
Alexandre
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
2015-11-09 3:10 [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever Alexandre DERUMIER
2015-11-09 3:23 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
@ 2015-11-09 7:19 ` Denis V. Lunev
2015-11-09 7:22 ` Denis V. Lunev
1 sibling, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Denis V. Lunev @ 2015-11-09 7:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexandre DERUMIER, ceph-devel, qemu-devel
On 11/09/2015 06:10 AM, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with qemu (2.4.1), if I do an internal snapshot of an rbd device,
> then I pause the vm with vm_stop,
>
> the qemu process is hanging forever
>
>
> monitor commands to reproduce:
>
>
> # snapshot_blkdev_internal drive-virtio0 yoursnapname
> # stop
>
>
>
>
> I don't see this with qcow2 or sheepdog block driver for example.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Alexandre
>
this could look like the problem I have recenty trying to
fix with dataplane enabled. Patch series is named as
[PATCH for 2.5 v6 0/10] dataplane snapshot fixes
Den
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
2015-11-09 7:19 ` Denis V. Lunev
@ 2015-11-09 7:22 ` Denis V. Lunev
2015-11-09 10:48 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Denis V. Lunev @ 2015-11-09 7:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexandre DERUMIER, ceph-devel, qemu-devel
On 11/09/2015 10:19 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> On 11/09/2015 06:10 AM, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> with qemu (2.4.1), if I do an internal snapshot of an rbd device,
>> then I pause the vm with vm_stop,
>>
>> the qemu process is hanging forever
>>
>>
>> monitor commands to reproduce:
>>
>>
>> # snapshot_blkdev_internal drive-virtio0 yoursnapname
>> # stop
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't see this with qcow2 or sheepdog block driver for example.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Alexandre
>>
> this could look like the problem I have recenty trying to
> fix with dataplane enabled. Patch series is named as
>
> [PATCH for 2.5 v6 0/10] dataplane snapshot fixes
>
> Den
anyway, even if above will not help, can you collect gdb
traces from all threads in QEMU process. May be I'll be
able to give a hit.
Den
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
2015-11-09 7:22 ` Denis V. Lunev
@ 2015-11-09 10:48 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
2015-11-09 13:42 ` Jason Dillaman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 10+ messages in thread
From: Alexandre DERUMIER @ 2015-11-09 10:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ceph-devel; +Cc: jdurgin, qemu-devel
adding to ceph.conf
[client]
rbd_non_blocking_aio = false
fix the problem for me (with rbd_cache=false)
(@cc jdurgin@redhat.com)
----- Mail original -----
De: "Denis V. Lunev" <den-lists@parallels.com>
À: "aderumier" <aderumier@odiso.com>, "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Envoyé: Lundi 9 Novembre 2015 08:22:34
Objet: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
On 11/09/2015 10:19 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> On 11/09/2015 06:10 AM, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> with qemu (2.4.1), if I do an internal snapshot of an rbd device,
>> then I pause the vm with vm_stop,
>>
>> the qemu process is hanging forever
>>
>>
>> monitor commands to reproduce:
>>
>>
>> # snapshot_blkdev_internal drive-virtio0 yoursnapname
>> # stop
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't see this with qcow2 or sheepdog block driver for example.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Alexandre
>>
> this could look like the problem I have recenty trying to
> fix with dataplane enabled. Patch series is named as
>
> [PATCH for 2.5 v6 0/10] dataplane snapshot fixes
>
> Den
anyway, even if above will not help, can you collect gdb
traces from all threads in QEMU process. May be I'll be
able to give a hit.
Den
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
2015-11-09 10:48 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
@ 2015-11-09 13:42 ` Jason Dillaman
2015-11-09 13:43 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2015-11-09 14:02 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Jason Dillaman @ 2015-11-09 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexandre DERUMIER; +Cc: ceph-devel, qemu-devel, jdurgin
Can you reproduce with Ceph debug logging enabled (i.e. debug rbd=20 in your ceph.conf)? If you could attach the log to the Ceph tracker ticket I opened [1], that would be very helpful.
[1] http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/13726
Thanks,
Jason
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexandre DERUMIER" <aderumier@odiso.com>
> To: "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, jdurgin@redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 5:48:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
>
> adding to ceph.conf
>
> [client]
> rbd_non_blocking_aio = false
>
>
> fix the problem for me (with rbd_cache=false)
>
>
> (@cc jdurgin@redhat.com)
>
>
>
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Denis V. Lunev" <den-lists@parallels.com>
> À: "aderumier" <aderumier@odiso.com>, "ceph-devel"
> <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
> Envoyé: Lundi 9 Novembre 2015 08:22:34
> Objet: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop
> is hanging forever
>
> On 11/09/2015 10:19 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> > On 11/09/2015 06:10 AM, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> with qemu (2.4.1), if I do an internal snapshot of an rbd device,
> >> then I pause the vm with vm_stop,
> >>
> >> the qemu process is hanging forever
> >>
> >>
> >> monitor commands to reproduce:
> >>
> >>
> >> # snapshot_blkdev_internal drive-virtio0 yoursnapname
> >> # stop
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I don't see this with qcow2 or sheepdog block driver for example.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Alexandre
> >>
> > this could look like the problem I have recenty trying to
> > fix with dataplane enabled. Patch series is named as
> >
> > [PATCH for 2.5 v6 0/10] dataplane snapshot fixes
> >
> > Den
>
> anyway, even if above will not help, can you collect gdb
> traces from all threads in QEMU process. May be I'll be
> able to give a hit.
>
> Den
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
2015-11-09 13:42 ` Jason Dillaman
@ 2015-11-09 13:43 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2015-11-09 14:02 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG @ 2015-11-09 13:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jason Dillaman, Alexandre DERUMIER; +Cc: ceph-devel, qemu-devel, jdurgin
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Alexandre DERUMIER" <aderumier@odiso.com>
>> To: "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>
>> Cc: "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, jdurgin@redhat.com
>> Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 5:48:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
>>
>> adding to ceph.conf
>>
>> [client]
>> rbd_non_blocking_aio = false
>>
>>
>> fix the problem for me (with rbd_cache=false)
>>
>>
>> (@cc jdurgin@redhat.com)
+1 same to me.
Stefan
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Denis V. Lunev" <den-lists@parallels.com>
>> À: "aderumier" <aderumier@odiso.com>, "ceph-devel"
>> <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
>> Envoyé: Lundi 9 Novembre 2015 08:22:34
>> Objet: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop
>> is hanging forever
>>
>> On 11/09/2015 10:19 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
>>> On 11/09/2015 06:10 AM, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> with qemu (2.4.1), if I do an internal snapshot of an rbd device,
>>>> then I pause the vm with vm_stop,
>>>>
>>>> the qemu process is hanging forever
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> monitor commands to reproduce:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # snapshot_blkdev_internal drive-virtio0 yoursnapname
>>>> # stop
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't see this with qcow2 or sheepdog block driver for example.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Alexandre
>>>>
>>> this could look like the problem I have recenty trying to
>>> fix with dataplane enabled. Patch series is named as
>>>
>>> [PATCH for 2.5 v6 0/10] dataplane snapshot fixes
>>>
>>> Den
>>
>> anyway, even if above will not help, can you collect gdb
>> traces from all threads in QEMU process. May be I'll be
>> able to give a hit.
>>
>> Den
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* Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
2015-11-09 13:42 ` Jason Dillaman
2015-11-09 13:43 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
@ 2015-11-09 14:02 ` Alexandre DERUMIER
1 sibling, 0 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Alexandre DERUMIER @ 2015-11-09 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jason Dillaman; +Cc: ceph-devel, qemu-devel, jdurgin
>>Can you reproduce with Ceph debug logging enabled (i.e. debug rbd=20 in your ceph.conf)? If you could attach the log to the Ceph tracker ticket I opened [1], that would be very helpful.
>>
>>[1] http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/13726
yes,I'm able to reproduce it 100%, I have attached the log to the tracker.
Alexandre
----- Mail original -----
De: "Jason Dillaman" <dillaman@redhat.com>
À: "aderumier" <aderumier@odiso.com>
Cc: "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, jdurgin@redhat.com
Envoyé: Lundi 9 Novembre 2015 14:42:42
Objet: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
Can you reproduce with Ceph debug logging enabled (i.e. debug rbd=20 in your ceph.conf)? If you could attach the log to the Ceph tracker ticket I opened [1], that would be very helpful.
[1] http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/13726
Thanks,
Jason
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexandre DERUMIER" <aderumier@odiso.com>
> To: "ceph-devel" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, jdurgin@redhat.com
> Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 5:48:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop is hanging forever
>
> adding to ceph.conf
>
> [client]
> rbd_non_blocking_aio = false
>
>
> fix the problem for me (with rbd_cache=false)
>
>
> (@cc jdurgin@redhat.com)
>
>
>
> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Denis V. Lunev" <den-lists@parallels.com>
> À: "aderumier" <aderumier@odiso.com>, "ceph-devel"
> <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
> Envoyé: Lundi 9 Novembre 2015 08:22:34
> Objet: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu : rbd block driver internal snapshot and vm_stop
> is hanging forever
>
> On 11/09/2015 10:19 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> > On 11/09/2015 06:10 AM, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> with qemu (2.4.1), if I do an internal snapshot of an rbd device,
> >> then I pause the vm with vm_stop,
> >>
> >> the qemu process is hanging forever
> >>
> >>
> >> monitor commands to reproduce:
> >>
> >>
> >> # snapshot_blkdev_internal drive-virtio0 yoursnapname
> >> # stop
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I don't see this with qcow2 or sheepdog block driver for example.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Alexandre
> >>
> > this could look like the problem I have recenty trying to
> > fix with dataplane enabled. Patch series is named as
> >
> > [PATCH for 2.5 v6 0/10] dataplane snapshot fixes
> >
> > Den
>
> anyway, even if above will not help, can you collect gdb
> traces from all threads in QEMU process. May be I'll be
> able to give a hit.
>
> Den
> --
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