Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] unplug_request and migration

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 11:09:10AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 00:41:06 +1000
> David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Dave & Juan,
> > 
> > I'm hoping one of you can answer this.
> > 
> > I'm currently grappling with (amongst other things) a pseries machine
> > racing a hot unplug operation with a migrate.  There's various issues
> > with what interim state we need, and which bits of it need to be
> > migrated that I'm still investigating.  But, there's a more general
> > question that I'm guessing must have already been addressed for x86.
> > 
> > For any "soft" unplug device - i.e. using ->unplug_request, rather
> > than ->unplug, giving a device_del command will just ask the guest
> > nicely to release the device, with the completion of the unplug
> > happening only if and when the guest indicates it's ready for the
> > device to go away.  AFAICT, the device_del command will return as soon
> > as the request is made, but if the guest is busy, the completion of
> > the hot unplug could take arbitrarily long.
> > 
> > So, what happens if there's a migration in between the unplug_request
> > and the guest completing the unplug?  How does libvirt (or whatever)
> > know whether to include the device on the destination machine command
> > line?
> > 
> 
> looking at qdev_unplug():
>     if (!migration_is_idle()) { 
>         error_setg(errp, "device_del not allowed while migrating");
>         return;
>     }
> 
> so unplug request should fail if migration is in progress , it won't reach 
> guest
> and mgmt side will have to repeat request on migration completion.
> 
> But it's still possible to issue unplug request first and then start
> migration,

Right, that's the case I'm interested in, not the other way around.

> that's where race between DEVICE_DELETED and migration start (starting DST 
> with
> being unplugged device) occurs.
> 
> it could be possible:
>  1: on unplug_request() set global flag that there is pending unplug and 
> forbid
>     migration until completion. But there is no guarantee that unplug will
>     be completed nor a way to notice that it's failed/rejected by guest.
>     I'm not sure how that could be solved.
>  2: set per device pending_unplug flag and delay unplug event from guest
>     until migration is completed if migration is in progress when unplug
>     callback is called.
>     mgmt will treat the case as usual migration, i.e. start dst with being
>     unplugged device, and device will be removed on dst side on migration
>     completion.
>     (it should be generic solution as x86 is also affected), as place where
>     to put this common logic I'd suggest hotplug_handler_unplug()

So.. it seems like the short version is that racing migration and
unplug is broken already.

Which is unfortunate, but at least means I don't need to worry about
it particularly for Power.

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