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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] do not call monitor_resume() from migrate_fd_put_buffer() error path
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:19:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E3B1B07.2000400@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E3AFA5F.4040708@msgid.tls.msk.ru>

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On 2011-08-04 22:00, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 04.08.2011 23:52, Michael Tokarev пишет:
>> 04.08.2011 23:24, Luiz Capitulino пишет:
>>> On Wed,  3 Aug 2011 18:51:44 +0400
>>> Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If we do, it results in double monitor_resume() (second being called
>>>> from migrate_fd_cleanup() anyway) and monitor suspend count becoming
>>>> negative.
>>>
>>> Are you hitting an specific issue or did you find this by code inspection?
>>
>> The specific case I'm talking about can trivially be triggered.
>> Run migrate "exec:nosuchfile" and your monitor will be stuck
>> forever.
>>
>>> IIRC, I asked Marcelo to add the monitor_resume() call in the fix for
>>> e447b1a603 because the monitor wasn't being resumed in some cases. Don't
>>> remember which though, do you Marcelo?
>>
>> And this (e447b1a603) is actually exactly the same thing: when the
>> child terminates before qemu completes sending stuff to it.
>>
>>> I see two possibilities here:
>>>
>>>  1. After e447b1a603 there was some change that made the monitor_resume() call
>>>     in migrate_fd_put_buffer() unnecessary
>>>
>>>  2. We're calling it in the wrong place
>>>
>>> Taking a quick look at the code I see that migrate_fd_cleanup() doesn't
>>> seem to be called when qemu_savevm_state_iterate() fails, for example.
>>
>> Yes indeed, but that will lead to a havoc in other places, like
>> leaving callback notifier registered even after migration gets
>> cancelled, or keeping the file open.
>>
>> Note that qemu_savevm_state_iterate() gets called from a callback
>> routine.
>>
>> What I observe here is that when the exec: process exits prematurely,
>> qemu will continue writing stuff to pipe up till migrate_fd_put_buffer()
>> hits error (EPIPE iirc), at which point we'll call mon->resume() twice.
>> The same happens in case of tcp migration when the other end closes
>> the connection.
>>
>> I don't know when qemu_savevm_state_iterate() may fail, or why
>> qemu_file_has_error() in there does not return true.
>>
>> Maybe the problem here is much more severe actually, -- that's why
>> I initially asked what it is all about, -- before offering the patch.
> 
> This looks like a race condition: which of the two places
> will detect the error first.
> 
> Sometimes I see this (-monitor stdio):
> 
> (qemu) migrate "exec:nothing"
> sh: nothing: not found
> 
> (qemu)
> 
> and after this, monitor is stuck as I described.  But sometimes
> I see this:
> 
> (qemu) migrate "exec:nothing"
> sh: nothing: not found
> (qemu)
> 
> And it continues working.  Note the extra newline.
> If the error gets detected sooner (like in case of
> exec:nothing, or even better, after removing
> /bin/sh so that system(3) will fail), the chance
> to have stuck monitor is much higher.  If the
> error gets detected later, it will survive most
> likely.  Or something like that anyway.

Resume on error in migrate_fd_put_buffer raced with migrate_fd_cleanup
triggered via migrate_fd_put_ready called from migrate_fd_connect.

This migration code is a horrible maze. Patch below tries to move
monitor_resume a bit out of this. Please check if it works for you, then
I'll send it out properly.

Thanks,
Jan

---

diff --git a/migration.c b/migration.c
index 2a15b98..756fa62 100644
--- a/migration.c
+++ b/migration.c
@@ -292,18 +292,17 @@ int migrate_fd_cleanup(FdMigrationState *s)
             ret = -1;
         }
         s->file = NULL;
+    } else {
+        if (s->mon) {
+            monitor_resume(s->mon);
+        }
     }
 
-    if (s->fd != -1)
+    if (s->fd != -1) {
         close(s->fd);
-
-    /* Don't resume monitor until we've flushed all of the buffers */
-    if (s->mon) {
-        monitor_resume(s->mon);
+        s->fd = -1;
     }
 
-    s->fd = -1;
-
     return ret;
 }
 
@@ -330,9 +329,6 @@ ssize_t migrate_fd_put_buffer(void *opaque, const void *data, size_t size)
     if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
         qemu_set_fd_handler2(s->fd, NULL, NULL, migrate_fd_put_notify, s);
     } else if (ret < 0) {
-        if (s->mon) {
-            monitor_resume(s->mon);
-        }
         s->state = MIG_STATE_ERROR;
         notifier_list_notify(&migration_state_notifiers, NULL);
     }
@@ -458,6 +454,9 @@ int migrate_fd_close(void *opaque)
 {
     FdMigrationState *s = opaque;
 
+    if (s->mon) {
+        monitor_resume(s->mon);
+    }
     qemu_set_fd_handler2(s->fd, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
     return s->close(s);
 }


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-04 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-03 14:51 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] do not call monitor_resume() from migrate_fd_put_buffer() error path Michael Tokarev
2011-08-04 19:24 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-08-04 19:52   ` Michael Tokarev
2011-08-04 20:00     ` Michael Tokarev
2011-08-04 22:19       ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2011-08-05  6:51         ` Michael Tokarev
2011-08-05  7:11           ` Jan Kiszka
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-19 11:46 Michael Tokarev
2011-07-19 21:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-07-20 16:34   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-07-20 22:06     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-03  7:38       ` Michael Tokarev
2011-08-03 13:22         ` Jan Kiszka

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