Re: [PATCH v7 0/8] Introduce 'yank' oob qmp command to recover from hanging qemu

[Lukas Straub]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:26:31 +0200
Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 10:11:22 +0200
> Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Everyone,
> > In many cases, if qemu has a network connection (qmp, migration, chardev, 
> > etc.)
> > to some other server and that server dies or hangs, qemu hangs too.
> > These patches introduce the new 'yank' out-of-band qmp command to recover 
> > from
> > these kinds of hangs. The different subsystems register callbacks which get
> > executed with the yank command. For example the callback can shutdown() a
> > socket. This is intended for the colo use-case, but it can be used for other
> > things too of course.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Lukas Straub
> > 
> > v7:
> >  -yank_register_instance now returns error via Error **errp instead of 
> > aborting
> >  -dropped "chardev/char.c: Check for duplicate id before  creating chardev"
> > 
> > v6:
> >  -add Reviewed-by and Acked-by tags
> >  -rebase on master
> >  -lots of changes in nbd due to rebase
> >  -only take maintainership of util/yank.c and include/qemu/yank.h (Daniel 
> > P. Berrangé)
> >  -fix a crash discovered by the newly added chardev test
> >  -fix the test itself
> > 
> > v5:
> >  -move yank.c to util/
> >  -move yank.h to include/qemu/
> >  -add license to yank.h
> >  -use const char*
> >  -nbd: use atomic_store_release and atomic_load_aqcuire
> >  -io-channel: ensure thread-safety and document it
> >  -add myself as maintainer for yank
> > 
> > v4:
> >  -fix build errors...
> > 
> > v3:
> >  -don't touch softmmu/vl.c, use __contructor__ attribute instead (Paolo 
> > Bonzini)
> >  -fix build errors
> >  -rewrite migration patch so it actually passes all tests
> > 
> > v2:
> >  -don't touch io/ code anymore
> >  -always register yank functions
> >  -'yank' now takes a list of instances to yank
> >  -'query-yank' returns a list of yankable instances
> > 
> > Lukas Straub (8):
> >   Introduce yank feature
> >   block/nbd.c: Add yank feature
> >   chardev/char-socket.c: Add yank feature
> >   migration: Add yank feature
> >   io/channel-tls.c: make qio_channel_tls_shutdown thread-safe
> >   io: Document thread-safety of qio_channel_shutdown
> >   MAINTAINERS: Add myself as maintainer for yank feature
> >   tests/test-char.c: Wait for the chardev to connect in
> >     char_socket_client_dupid_test
> > 
> >  MAINTAINERS                   |   6 ++
> >  block/nbd.c                   | 129 +++++++++++++++---------
> >  chardev/char-socket.c         |  31 ++++++
> >  include/io/channel.h          |   2 +
> >  include/qemu/yank.h           |  80 +++++++++++++++
> >  io/channel-tls.c              |   6 +-
> >  migration/channel.c           |  12 +++
> >  migration/migration.c         |  25 ++++-
> >  migration/multifd.c           |  10 ++
> >  migration/qemu-file-channel.c |   6 ++
> >  migration/savevm.c            |   6 ++
> >  qapi/misc.json                |  45 +++++++++
> >  tests/Makefile.include        |   2 +-
> >  tests/test-char.c             |   1 +
> >  util/Makefile.objs            |   1 +
> >  util/yank.c                   | 184 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  16 files changed, 493 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 include/qemu/yank.h
> >  create mode 100644 util/yank.c
> > 
> > --
> > 2.20.1  
> 
> Ping...

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Also, can the different subsystems have a look at this and give their ok?

Regards,
Lukas Straub

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