Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH] virtio-blk: Cancel the pending BH when the dataplane is reset

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 02:35:56PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/16/19 1:15 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > When 'system_reset' is called, the main loop clear the memory
> > region cache before the BH has a chance to execute. Later when
> > the deferred function is called, some assumptions that were
> > made when scheduling them are no longer true when they actually
> > execute.
> > 
> > This is what happens using a virtio-blk device (fresh RHEL7.8 install):
> > 
> >  $ (sleep 12.3; echo system_reset; sleep 12.3; echo system_reset; sleep 1; 
> > echo q) \
> >    | qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4G -smp 8 -boot menu=on \
> >      -device virtio-blk-pci,id=image1,drive=drive_image1 \
> >      -drive 
> > file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel78.qcow2,if=none,id=drive_image1,format=qcow2,cache=none
> >  \
> >      -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,id=nic0,mac=52:54:00:c4:e7:84 \
> >      -netdev tap,id=net0,script=/bin/true,downscript=/bin/true,vhost=on \
> >      -monitor stdio -serial null -nographic
> >   (qemu) system_reset
> >   (qemu) system_reset
> >   (qemu) qemu-system-x86_64: hw/virtio/virtio.c:225: 
> > vring_get_region_caches: Assertion `caches != NULL' failed.
> >   Aborted
> > 
> >   (gdb) bt
> >   Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f109c17b680 (LWP 10939)):
> >   #0  0x00005604083296d1 in vring_get_region_caches (vq=0x56040a24bdd0) at 
> > hw/virtio/virtio.c:227
> >   #1  0x000056040832972b in vring_avail_flags (vq=0x56040a24bdd0) at 
> > hw/virtio/virtio.c:235
> >   #2  0x000056040832d13d in virtio_should_notify (vdev=0x56040a240630, 
> > vq=0x56040a24bdd0) at hw/virtio/virtio.c:1648
> >   #3  0x000056040832d1f8 in virtio_notify_irqfd (vdev=0x56040a240630, 
> > vq=0x56040a24bdd0) at hw/virtio/virtio.c:1662
> >   #4  0x00005604082d213d in notify_guest_bh (opaque=0x56040a243ec0) at 
> > hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c:75
> >   #5  0x000056040883dc35 in aio_bh_call (bh=0x56040a243f10) at 
> > util/async.c:90
> >   #6  0x000056040883dccd in aio_bh_poll (ctx=0x560409161980) at 
> > util/async.c:118
> >   #7  0x0000560408842af7 in aio_dispatch (ctx=0x560409161980) at 
> > util/aio-posix.c:460
> >   #8  0x000056040883e068 in aio_ctx_dispatch (source=0x560409161980, 
> > callback=0x0, user_data=0x0) at util/async.c:261
> >   #9  0x00007f10a8fca06d in g_main_context_dispatch () at 
> > /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0
> >   #10 0x0000560408841445 in glib_pollfds_poll () at util/main-loop.c:215
> >   #11 0x00005604088414bf in os_host_main_loop_wait (timeout=0) at 
> > util/main-loop.c:238
> >   #12 0x00005604088415c4 in main_loop_wait (nonblocking=0) at 
> > util/main-loop.c:514
> >   #13 0x0000560408416b1e in main_loop () at vl.c:1923
> >   #14 0x000056040841e0e8 in main (argc=20, argv=0x7ffc2c3f9c58, 
> > envp=0x7ffc2c3f9d00) at vl.c:4578
> > 
> > Fix this by cancelling the BH when the virtio dataplane is stopped.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Yihuang Yu <address@hidden>
> > Suggested-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> > Fixes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1839428
> > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c 
> > b/hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c
> > index 9299a1a7c2..4030faa21d 100644
> > --- a/hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c
> > +++ b/hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c
> > @@ -301,6 +301,8 @@ void virtio_blk_data_plane_stop(VirtIODevice *vdev)
> >      /* Clean up guest notifier (irq) */
> >      k->set_guest_notifiers(qbus->parent, nvqs, false);
> >  
> > +    qemu_bh_cancel(s->bh);
> > +
> >      vblk->dataplane_started = false;
> >      s->stopping = false;
> >  }
> > 
> 
> Naive question:
> 
> Since we're canceling the BH here and we're stopping the device; do we
> need to do anything like clear out batch_notify_vqs? I assume in
> system_reset contexts that's going to be handled anyway, are there
> non-reset contexts where it matters?

Spurious guest notifications aren't a problem but missing notifications
can hang the guest.  I have proposed a modified version of this code
that ensures pending batched notifications are sent.

Stefan

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