[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix starting domains when kernel has no cgroups support
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Mon May 13 08:30:07 UTC 2013
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 01:13:20PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:40:40PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> >
> >> Found that I was unable to start existing domains after updating
> >> to a kernel with no cgroups support
> >>
> >> # zgrep CGROUP /proc/config.gz
> >> # CONFIG_CGROUPS is not set
> >> # virsh start test
> >> error: Failed to start domain test
> >> error: Unable to initialize /machine cgroup: Cannot allocate memory
> >>
> >> virCgroupPartitionNeedsEscaping() correctly returns errno (ENOENT) when
> >> attempting to open /proc/cgroups on such a system, but it was being
> >> dropped in virCgroupSetPartitionSuffix().
> >>
> >> Change virCgroupSetPartitionSuffix() to propogate errors returned by
> >> its callees. Also check for ENOENT in qemuInitCgroup() when determining
> >> if cgroups support is available.
> >> ---
> >> src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c | 3 ++-
> >> src/util/vircgroup.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
> >> 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c b/src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c
> >> index 9c45b76..40777aa 100644
> >> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c
> >> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c
> >> @@ -414,7 +414,8 @@ int qemuInitCgroup(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
> >> if (rc != 0) {
> >> if (rc == -ENXIO ||
> >> rc == -EPERM ||
> >> - rc == -EACCES) { /* No cgroups mounts == success */
> >> + rc == -EACCES ||
> >> + rc == -ENOENT) { /* No cgroups mounts == success */
> >> VIR_DEBUG("No cgroups present/configured/accessible, ignoring error");
> >> goto done;
> >> }
> >> diff --git a/src/util/vircgroup.c b/src/util/vircgroup.c
> >> index 473d2fc..ef619dc 100644
> >> --- a/src/util/vircgroup.c
> >> +++ b/src/util/vircgroup.c
> >> @@ -1167,14 +1167,14 @@ static int virCgroupPartitionEscape(char **path)
> >> return 0;
> >> }
> >>
> >> -static char *virCgroupSetPartitionSuffix(const char *path)
> >> +static int virCgroupSetPartitionSuffix(const char *path, char **res)
> >>
> >
> > You're changing the signature, but I don't see you changing any
> > callers to adapt.
> >
>
> Opps, that wouldn't even compile :). I created/tested this patch on a
> test machine and somehow dropped a hunk when merging on my dev machine.
> Unfortunately, I also didn't run my pre-patch-submit-tests on my dev
> setup, totally missing this.
>
> Here's the updated patch.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
> From 63e878b287b98e418b65db46888c1f5d1a01d805 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 12:05:00 -0600
> Subject: [PATCH] Fix starting domains when kernel has no cgroups support
>
> Found that I was unable to start existing domains after updating
> to a kernel with no cgroups support
>
> # zgrep CGROUP /proc/config.gz
> # CONFIG_CGROUPS is not set
> # virsh start test
> error: Failed to start domain test
> error: Unable to initialize /machine cgroup: Cannot allocate memory
>
> virCgroupPartitionNeedsEscaping() correctly returns errno (ENOENT) when
> attempting to open /proc/cgroups on such a system, but it was being
> dropped in virCgroupSetPartitionSuffix().
>
> Change virCgroupSetPartitionSuffix() to propogate errors returned by
s/propogate/propagate/
> its callees. Also check for ENOENT in qemuInitCgroup() when determining
> if cgroups support is available.
> ---
> src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c | 3 ++-
> src/util/vircgroup.c | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
ACK
Daniel
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