[libvirt] [PATCH 3/3 v2] qemu: Deal with stucked qemu on daemon startup

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Tue Aug 23 18:22:18 UTC 2011


If libvirt daemon gets restarted and there is (at least) one
unresponsive qemu, the startup procedure hangs up. This patch creates
one thread per vm in which we try to reconnect to monitor. Therefore,
blocking in one thread will not affect other APIs.
---
 src/qemu/qemu_driver.c  |   23 +++++----
 src/qemu/qemu_process.c |  123 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
index c8dda73..8c2e356 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
@@ -143,16 +143,18 @@ qemuAutostartDomain(void *payload, const void *name ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, void *opaq
 
     virDomainObjLock(vm);
     virResetLastError();
-    if (qemuDomainObjBeginJobWithDriver(data->driver, vm,
-                                        QEMU_JOB_MODIFY) < 0) {
-        err = virGetLastError();
-        VIR_ERROR(_("Failed to start job on VM '%s': %s"),
-                  vm->def->name,
-                  err ? err->message : _("unknown error"));
-    } else {
-        if (vm->autostart &&
-            !virDomainObjIsActive(vm) &&
-            qemuDomainObjStart(data->conn, data->driver, vm,
+    if (vm->autostart &&
+        !virDomainObjIsActive(vm)) {
+        if (qemuDomainObjBeginJobWithDriver(data->driver, vm,
+                                            QEMU_JOB_MODIFY) < 0) {
+            err = virGetLastError();
+            VIR_ERROR(_("Failed to start job on VM '%s': %s"),
+                      vm->def->name,
+                      err ? err->message : _("unknown error"));
+            goto cleanup;
+        }
+
+        if (qemuDomainObjStart(data->conn, data->driver, vm,
                                false, false,
                                data->driver->autoStartBypassCache) < 0) {
             err = virGetLastError();
@@ -165,6 +167,7 @@ qemuAutostartDomain(void *payload, const void *name ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, void *opaq
             vm = NULL;
     }
 
+cleanup:
     if (vm)
         virDomainObjUnlock(vm);
 }
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
index 21e73a5..4cc8ae6 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
@@ -820,6 +820,7 @@ qemuConnectMonitor(struct qemud_driver *driver, virDomainObjPtr vm)
 {
     qemuDomainObjPrivatePtr priv = vm->privateData;
     int ret = -1;
+    qemuMonitorPtr mon = NULL;
 
     if (virSecurityManagerSetSocketLabel(driver->securityManager, vm) < 0) {
         VIR_ERROR(_("Failed to set security context for monitor for %s"),
@@ -831,15 +832,29 @@ qemuConnectMonitor(struct qemud_driver *driver, virDomainObjPtr vm)
      * deleted while the monitor is active */
     virDomainObjRef(vm);
 
-    priv->mon = qemuMonitorOpen(vm,
-                                priv->monConfig,
-                                priv->monJSON,
-                                &monitorCallbacks);
+    ignore_value(virTimeMs(&priv->monStart));
+    virDomainObjUnlock(vm);
+    qemuDriverUnlock(driver);
+
+    mon = qemuMonitorOpen(vm,
+                          priv->monConfig,
+                          priv->monJSON,
+                          &monitorCallbacks);
+
+    qemuDriverLock(driver);
+    virDomainObjLock(vm);
+    priv->monStart = 0;
 
     /* Safe to ignore value since ref count was incremented above */
-    if (priv->mon == NULL)
+    if (mon == NULL)
         ignore_value(virDomainObjUnref(vm));
 
+    if (!virDomainObjIsActive(vm)) {
+        qemuMonitorClose(mon);
+        goto error;
+    }
+    priv->mon = mon;
+
     if (virSecurityManagerClearSocketLabel(driver->securityManager, vm) < 0) {
         VIR_ERROR(_("Failed to clear security context for monitor for %s"),
                   vm->def->name);
@@ -2484,24 +2499,30 @@ qemuProcessRecoverJob(struct qemud_driver *driver,
 struct qemuProcessReconnectData {
     virConnectPtr conn;
     struct qemud_driver *driver;
+    void *payload;
+    struct qemuDomainJobObj oldjob;
 };
 /*
  * Open an existing VM's monitor, re-detect VCPU threads
  * and re-reserve the security labels in use
  */
 static void
-qemuProcessReconnect(void *payload, const void *name ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, void *opaque)
+qemuProcessReconnect(void *opaque)
 {
-    virDomainObjPtr obj = payload;
     struct qemuProcessReconnectData *data = opaque;
     struct qemud_driver *driver = data->driver;
+    virDomainObjPtr obj = data->payload;
     qemuDomainObjPrivatePtr priv;
     virConnectPtr conn = data->conn;
     struct qemuDomainJobObj oldjob;
 
+    memcpy(&oldjob, &data->oldjob, sizeof(oldjob));
+
+    VIR_FREE(data);
+
+    qemuDriverLock(driver);
     virDomainObjLock(obj);
 
-    qemuDomainObjRestoreJob(obj, &oldjob);
 
     VIR_DEBUG("Reconnect monitor to %p '%s'", obj, obj->def->name);
 
@@ -2572,12 +2593,21 @@ qemuProcessReconnect(void *payload, const void *name ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, void *opa
     if (virDomainObjUnref(obj) > 0)
         virDomainObjUnlock(obj);
 
+    if (qemuDomainObjEndJob(driver, obj) == 0)
+        obj = NULL;
+
+    qemuDriverUnlock(driver);
+
     return;
 
 error:
+    if (qemuDomainObjEndJob(driver, obj) == 0)
+        obj = NULL;
+
     if (!virDomainObjIsActive(obj)) {
         if (virDomainObjUnref(obj) > 0)
             virDomainObjUnlock(obj);
+        qemuDriverUnlock(driver);
         return;
     }
 
@@ -2591,6 +2621,81 @@ error:
         else
             virDomainObjUnlock(obj);
     }
+    qemuDriverUnlock(driver);
+}
+
+static void
+qemuProcessReconnectHelper(void *payload,
+                           const void *name ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
+                           void *opaque)
+{
+    virThread thread;
+    struct qemuProcessReconnectData *src = opaque;
+    struct qemuProcessReconnectData *data;
+    virDomainObjPtr obj = payload;
+
+    if (VIR_ALLOC(data) < 0) {
+        virReportOOMError();
+        return;
+    }
+
+    memcpy(data, src, sizeof(*data));
+    data->payload = payload;
+
+    /* This iterator is called with driver being locked.
+     * We create a separate thread to run qemuProcessReconnect in it.
+     * However, qemuProcessReconnect needs to:
+     * 1. lock driver
+     * 2. just before monitor reconnect do lightweight MonitorEnter
+     *    (increase VM refcount, unlock VM & driver)
+     * 3. reconnect to monitor
+     * 4. do lightweight MonitorExit (lock driver & VM)
+     * 5. continue reconnect process
+     * 6. EndJob
+     * 7. unlock driver
+     *
+     * It is necessary to NOT hold driver lock for the entire run
+     * of reconnect, otherwise we will get blocked if there is
+     * unresponsive qemu.
+     * However, iterating over hash table MUST be done on locked
+     * driver.
+     *
+     * NB, we can't do normal MonitorEnter & MonitorExit because
+     * these two lock the monitor lock, which does not exists in
+     * this early phase.
+     */
+
+    virDomainObjLock(obj);
+
+    qemuDomainObjRestoreJob(obj, &data->oldjob);
+
+    if (qemuDomainObjBeginJobWithDriver(src->driver, obj, QEMU_JOB_MODIFY) < 0)
+        goto error;
+
+    if (virThreadCreate(&thread, true, qemuProcessReconnect, data) < 0) {
+        qemuReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s",
+                        _("Could not create thread. QEMU initialization "
+                          "might be incomplete"));
+        if (qemuDomainObjEndJob(src->driver, obj) == 0) {
+            obj = NULL;
+        } else if (virDomainObjUnref(obj) > 0) {
+           /* We can't spawn a thread and thus connect to monitor.
+            * Kill qemu */
+            qemuProcessStop(src->driver, obj, 0, VIR_DOMAIN_SHUTOFF_FAILED);
+            if (!obj->persistent)
+                virDomainRemoveInactive(&src->driver->domains, obj);
+            else
+                virDomainObjUnlock(obj);
+        }
+        goto error;
+    }
+
+    virDomainObjUnlock(obj);
+
+    return;
+
+error:
+    VIR_FREE(data);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -2603,7 +2708,7 @@ void
 qemuProcessReconnectAll(virConnectPtr conn, struct qemud_driver *driver)
 {
     struct qemuProcessReconnectData data = {conn, driver};
-    virHashForEach(driver->domains.objs, qemuProcessReconnect, &data);
+    virHashForEach(driver->domains.objs, qemuProcessReconnectHelper, &data);
 }
 
 int qemuProcessStart(virConnectPtr conn,
-- 
1.7.3.4




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