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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Hongyang Yang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>,
	Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fix Remus failover regression
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 08:43:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53E32E10.5090306@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53E2D37D.4070503@cn.fujitsu.com>

On 07/08/2014 02:16, Hongyang Yang wrote:
> Ping!
>
> 在 07/28/2014 12:03 PM, Yang Hongyang 写道:
>> commit: c2ba706c
>> tools/libxc: goto correct label on error paths by Andrew Cooper
>> broke Remus in Xen 4.4 or earlier versions that has this commit
>> backported.
>>
>> With Remus, this jump essentially discards the current incomplete
>> checkpoint received by the backup and restore backup from the
>> last complete checkpoint.
>> This is required for Remus to work and this does not break live
>> migration.
>> It has been around since Xen 4.0.
>>
>> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
>> CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
>>

It is elsewhere in this thread, but Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper
<andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

>> CC: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
>> Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>>   tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c | 13 +++++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c
>> b/tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c
>> index e73e0a2..b9a56d5 100644
>> --- a/tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c
>> +++ b/tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c
>> @@ -1783,20 +1783,29 @@ int xc_domain_restore(xc_interface *xch, int
>> io_fd, uint32_t dom,
>>
>>       if ( pagebuf_get(xch, ctx, &pagebuf, io_fd, dom) ) {
>>           PERROR("error when buffering batch, finishing");
>> -        goto out;
>> +        /*
>> +         * Remus: discard the current incomplete checkpoint and restore
>> +         * backup from the last complete checkpoint.
>> +         */
>> +        goto finish;
>>       }
>>       memset(&tmptail, 0, sizeof(tmptail));
>>       tmptail.ishvm = hvm;
>>       if ( buffer_tail(xch, ctx, &tmptail, io_fd, max_vcpu_id, vcpumap,
>>                        ext_vcpucontext, vcpuextstate_size) < 0 ) {
>>           ERROR ("error buffering image tail, finishing");
>> -        goto out;
>> +        /*
>> +         * Remus: discard the current incomplete checkpoint and restore
>> +         * backup from the last complete checkpoint.
>> +         */
>> +        goto finish;
>>       }
>>       tailbuf_free(&tailbuf);
>>       memcpy(&tailbuf, &tmptail, sizeof(tailbuf));
>>
>>       goto loadpages;
>>
>> +  /* With Remus: restore from last complete checkpoint */
>>     finish:
>>       if ( hvm )
>>           goto finish_hvm;
>>
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-07  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-28  4:03 [PATCH v2] fix Remus failover regression Yang Hongyang
2014-07-28  4:05 ` Shriram Rajagopalan
2014-07-28  9:24 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-07-28  9:29   ` Hongyang Yang
2014-07-28 10:11     ` Andrew Cooper
2014-08-07  1:16 ` Hongyang Yang
2014-08-07  7:43   ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2014-08-21  8:12     ` Hongyang Yang
2014-08-21 22:49     ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-21 22:50     ` Ian Campbell

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