We currently have an unfavorable situation around multifd channels
creation and the migration thread execution.
We create the multifd channels with qio_channel_socket_connect_async
-> qio_task_run_in_thread, but only connect them at the
multifd_new_send_channel_async callback, called from
qio_task_complete, which is registered as a glib event.
So at multifd_send_setup() we create the channels, but they will only
be actually usable after the whole multifd_send_setup() calling stack
returns back to the main loop. Which means that the migration thread
is already up and running without any possibility for the multifd
channels to be ready on time.
We currently rely on the channels-ready semaphore blocking
multifd_send_sync_main() until channels start to come up and release
it. However there have been bugs recently found when a channel's
creation fails and multifd_send_cleanup() is allowed to run while
other channels are still being created.
Let's start to organize this situation by moving the
multifd_send_setup() call into the migration thread. That way we
unblock the main-loop to dispatch the completion callbacks and
actually have a chance of getting the multifd channels ready for when
the migration thread needs them.
The next patches will deal with the synchronization aspects.
Note that this takes multifd_send_setup() out of the BQL.
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240206215118.6171-5-farosas@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
The commit in the fixes line mistakenly modified the channels and
transport compatibility check logic so it now checks multi-channel
support only for socket transport type.
Thus, running multifd migration using a transport other than socket that
is incompatible with multi-channels (such as "exec") would lead to a
segmentation fault instead of an error message.
For example:
(qemu) migrate_set_capability multifd on
(qemu) migrate -d "exec:cat > /tmp/vm_state"
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Fix it by checking multi-channel compatibility for all transport types.
Cc: qemu-stable <qemu-stable@nongnu.org>
Fixes: d95533e1cd ("migration: modify migration_channels_and_uri_compatible() for new QAPI syntax")
Signed-off-by: Avihai Horon <avihaih@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240125162528.7552-2-avihaih@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Most of the multifd code uses send/recv to represent the two sides, but
some rare cases use save/load.
Since send/recv is the majority, replacing the save/load use cases to use
send/recv globally. Now we reach a consensus on the naming.
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202102857.110210-22-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
A memory page poisoned from the hypervisor level is no longer readable.
The migration of a VM will crash Qemu when it tries to read the
memory address space and stumbles on the poisoned page with a similar
stack trace:
Program terminated with signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
#0 _mm256_loadu_si256
#1 buffer_zero_avx2
#2 select_accel_fn
#3 buffer_is_zero
#4 save_zero_page
#5 ram_save_target_page_legacy
#6 ram_save_host_page
#7 ram_find_and_save_block
#8 ram_save_iterate
#9 qemu_savevm_state_iterate
#10 migration_iteration_run
#11 migration_thread
#12 qemu_thread_start
To avoid this VM crash during the migration, prevent the migration
when a known hardware poison exists on the VM.
Signed-off-by: William Roche <william.roche@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240130190640.139364-2-william.roche@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Now that the migration state reference counting is correct, further
wrap the bottom half dispatch process to avoid future issues.
Move BH creation and scheduling together and wrap the dispatch with an
intermediary function that will ensure we always keep the ref/unref
balanced.
Also move the responsibility of deleting the BH into the wrapper and
remove the now unnecessary pointers.
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240119233922.32588-6-farosas@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
We're currently allowing the process_incoming_migration_bh bottom-half
to run without holding a reference to the 'current_migration' object,
which leads to a segmentation fault if the BH is still live after
migration_shutdown() has dropped the last reference to
current_migration.
In my system the bug manifests as migrate_multifd() returning true
when it shouldn't and multifd_load_shutdown() calling
multifd_recv_terminate_threads() which crashes due to an uninitialized
multifd_recv_state.
Fix the issue by holding a reference to the object when scheduling the
BH and dropping it before returning from the BH. The same is already
done for the cleanup_bh at migrate_fd_cleanup_schedule().
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1969
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240119233922.32588-2-farosas@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
The Big QEMU Lock (BQL) has many names and they are confusing. The
actual QemuMutex variable is called qemu_global_mutex but it's commonly
referred to as the BQL in discussions and some code comments. The
locking APIs, however, are called qemu_mutex_lock_iothread() and
qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread().
The "iothread" name is historic and comes from when the main thread was
split into into KVM vcpu threads and the "iothread" (now called the main
loop thread). I have contributed to the confusion myself by introducing
a separate --object iothread, a separate concept unrelated to the BQL.
The "iothread" name is no longer appropriate for the BQL. Rename the
locking APIs to:
- void bql_lock(void)
- void bql_unlock(void)
- bool bql_locked(void)
There are more APIs with "iothread" in their names. Subsequent patches
will rename them. There are also comments and documentation that will be
updated in later patches.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Acked-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Farman <farman@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harshpb@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hyman Huang <yong.huang@smartx.com>
Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
Message-id: 20240102153529.486531-2-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
According to Error API, usage of ERRP_GUARD() or a local Error instead
of errp is needed if errp is passed to void functions, where it is later
dereferenced to see if an error occurred.
There are several places in migration.c that use local Error although it
is not needed. Change these places to use errp directly.
Signed-off-by: Avihai Horon <avihaih@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231231093016.14204-11-avihaih@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
If multifd_load_setup() fails in migration_ioc_process_incoming(),
error_setg() is called with errp. This will lead to an assert because in
that case errp already contains an error.
Fix it by removing the redundant error_setg().
Fixes: 6720c2b327 ("migration: check magic value for deciding the mapping of channels")
Signed-off-by: Avihai Horon <avihaih@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231231093016.14204-9-avihaih@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
A guest that is migrated in the suspended state automaticaly wakes and
continues execution. This is wrong; the guest should end migration in
the same state it started. The root cause is that the outgoing migration
code automatically wakes the guest, then saves the RUNNING runstate in
global_state_store(), hence the incoming migration code thinks the guest is
running and continues the guest if autostart is true.
On the outgoing side, delete the call to qemu_system_wakeup_request().
Now that vm_stop completely stops a vm in the suspended state (from the
preceding patches), the existing call to vm_stop_force_state is sufficient
to correctly migrate all vmstate.
On the incoming side, call vm_start if the pre-migration state was running
or suspended. For the latter, vm_start correctly restores the suspended
state, and a future system_wakeup monitor request will cause the vm to
resume running.
Signed-off-by: Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1704312341-66640-7-git-send-email-steven.sistare@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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