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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] kvmclock: Ensure time in migration never goe


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] kvmclock: Ensure time in migration never goes backward
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 13:13:49 +0200
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Il 03/06/2014 07:16, Marcelo Tosatti ha scritto:
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:31:44PM +0200, Marcin Gibuła wrote:
+    cpu_physical_memory_read(kvmclock_struct_pa, &time, sizeof(time));
+
+    delta = migration_tsc - time.tsc_timestamp;

Hi,

when I was testing live storage migration with libvirt I found out
that this patch can cause virtual machine to hang when completing
mirror job.

This is (probably) because kvmclock_current_nsec() is called twice
in a row and on second call time.tsc_timestamp is larger than
migration_tsc. This causes delta to be huge and sets timer to
invalid value.

The double call happens when switching from old to new disk
(pivoting in libvirt's nomenclature).

Example values:

First call: migration_tsc: 12052203518652476, time_tsc:
12052203301565676, delta 108543400

Second call: migration_tsc: 12052203518652476, time_tsc:
12052204478600322, delta 9223372036374801885

Perhaps it is worth adding:

if (time.tsc_timestamp > migration_tsc) {
    return 0;
}

there? Untested though...

Hi Marcin,

Can you give this patch a try?  Should read the guest TSC values after
stopping the VM.


diff --git a/hw/i386/kvm/clock.c b/hw/i386/kvm/clock.c
index 6f4ed28a..bef2504 100644
--- a/hw/i386/kvm/clock.c
+++ b/hw/i386/kvm/clock.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 #include "qemu/host-utils.h"
 #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
 #include "sysemu/kvm.h"
+#include "sysemu/cpus.h"
 #include "hw/sysbus.h"
 #include "hw/kvm/clock.h"

@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ static uint64_t kvmclock_current_nsec(KVMClockState *s)

     cpu_physical_memory_read(kvmclock_struct_pa, &time, sizeof(time));

+    assert(time.tsc_timestamp <= migration_tsc);
     delta = migration_tsc - time.tsc_timestamp;
     if (time.tsc_shift < 0) {
         delta >>= -time.tsc_shift;
@@ -123,6 +125,8 @@ static void kvmclock_vm_state_change(void *opaque, int 
running,
         if (s->clock_valid) {
             return;
         }
+
+        cpu_synchronize_all_states();
         ret = kvm_vm_ioctl(kvm_state, KVM_GET_CLOCK, &data);
         if (ret < 0) {
             fprintf(stderr, "KVM_GET_CLOCK failed: %s\n", strerror(ret));


Can you send it with a real commit message?

Paolo



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