Biggest change is that AioContext locking got removed, but no changes
required other than dropping the calls to acquire and release it. As a
consequence, the single parameter for the bdrv_graph_wrlock() call got
removed which also required adaptation.
QAPI docs became stricter requiring to document all members.
Other minor changes:
- Single parameter from migration_is_running() was dropped.
- qemu_mutex_(un)lock_iothread() got renamed to bql_(un)lock().
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
This version includes both the AioContext lock and the block graph
lock, so there might be some deadlocks lurking. It's not possible to
disable the block graph lock like was done in QEMU 8.1, because there
are no changes like the function bdrv_schedule_unref() that require
it. QEMU 9.0 will finally get rid of the AioContext locking.
During live-restore with a VirtIO SCSI drive with iothread there is a
known racy deadlock related to the AioContext lock. Not new [1], but
not sure if more likely now. Should be fixed in QEMU 9.0.
The block graph lock comes with annotations that can be checked by
clang's TSA. This required changes to the block drivers, i.e.
alloc-track, pbs, zeroinit as well as taking the appropriate locks
in pve-backup, savevm-async, vma-reader.
Local variable shadowing is prohibited via a compiler flag now,
required slight adaptation in vma.c.
Major changes only affect alloc-track:
* It is not possible to call a generated co-wrapper like
bdrv_get_info() while holding the block graph lock exclusively [0],
which does happen during initialization of alloc-track when the
backing hd is set and the refresh_limits driver callback is invoked.
The bdrv_get_info() call to get the cluster size is moved to
directly after opening the file child in track_open().
The important thing is that at least the request alignment for the
write target is used, because then the RMW cycle in bdrv_pwritev
will gather enough data from the backing file. Partial cluster
allocations in the target are not a fundamental issue, because the
driver returns its allocation status based on the bitmap, so any
other data that maps to the same cluster will still be copied later
by a stream job (or during writes to that cluster).
* Replacing the node cannot be done in the
track_co_change_backing_file() callback, because it is a coroutine
and cannot hold the block graph lock exclusively. So it is moved to
the stream job itself with the auto-remove option not having an
effect anymore (qemu-server would always set it anyways).
In the future, there could either be a special option for the stream
job, or maybe the upcoming blockdev-replace QMP command can be used.
Replacing the backing child is actually already done in the stream
job, so no need to do it in the track_co_change_backing_file()
callback. It also cannot be called from a coroutine. Looking at the
implementation in the qcow2 driver, it doesn't seem to be intended
to change the backing child itself, just update driver-internal
state.
Other changes:
* alloc-track: Error out early when used without auto-remove. Since
replacing the node now happens in the stream job, where the option
cannot be read from (it's internal to the driver), it will always be
treated as 'on'. Makes sure to have users beside qemu-server notice
the change (should they even exist). The option can be fully dropped
in the future while adding a version guard in qemu-server.
* alloc-track: Avoid seemingly superfluous child permission update.
Doesn't seem necessary nowadays (maybe after commit "alloc-track:
fix deadlock during drop" where the dropping is not rescheduled and
delayed anymore or some upstream change). Replacing the block node
will already update the permissions of the new node (which was the
file child before). Should there really be some issue, instead of
having a drop state, this could also be just based off the fact
whether there is still a backing child.
Dumping the cumulative (shared) permissions for the BDS with a debug
print yields the same values after this patch and with QEMU 8.1,
namely 3 and 5.
* PBS block driver: compile unconditionally. Proxmox VE always needs
it and something in the build process changed to make it not enabled
by default. Probably would need to move the build option to meson
otherwise.
* backup: job unreferencing during cleanup needs to happen outside of
coroutine, so it was moved to before invoking the clean
* mirror: Cherry-pick stable fix to avoid potential deadlock.
* savevm-async: migrate_init now can fail, so propagate potential
error.
* savevm-async: compression counters are not accessible outside
migration/ram-compress now, so drop code that prophylactically set
it to zero.
[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/220be383-3b0d-4938-b584-69ad214e5d5d@proxmox.com/
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/e13b488e-bf13-44f2-acca-e724d14f43fd@proxmox.com/
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
In many configurations, e.g. multiple vNICs with multiple queues or
with many Ceph OSDs, the default soft limit of 1024 is not enough.
QEMU is supposed to work fine with file descriptors >= 1024 and does
not use select() on POSIX. Bump the soft limit to the allowed hard
limit to avoid issues with the aforementioned configurations.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Most notable fixes from a Proxmox VE perspective are:
* "virtio-net: correctly copy vnet header when flushing TX"
To prevent a stack overflow that could lead to leaking parts of the
QEMU process's memory.
* "hw/pflash: implement update buffer for block writes"
To prevent an edge case for half-completed writes. This potentially
affected EFI disks.
* Fixes to i386 emulation and ARM emulation.
No changes for patches were necessary (all are just automatic context
changes).
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Bigger notable changes:
* Commit 1a30b0f5d7 ("block: .bdrv_open is non-coroutine and
unlocked") broke the PVE backup patches, in particular setting up
the backup dump block driver, because bdrv_new_open_driver() cannot
be called from a coroutine. To fix it, bdrv_co_open() is used
instead, and while it's a much more involved function, the result
should be essentially the same. The only difference I noticed is
that the BDRV_O_ALLOW_RDWR flag is also set in the resulting bds
(block driver state), but that shouldn't hurt.
Smaller notable changes:
* aio_set_fd_handler() dropped its 'is_external' parameter stating
that all callers now pass false in 60f782b6b7 ("aio: remove
aio_disable_external() API"). The calls in the PVE patches also
passed false, so just drop the parameter too.
* global_state_store() does not have a return value anymore, so the
user in the PVE savevm-async patch was adapted. For context, see
c33f1829f8 ("migration: never fail in global_state_store()").
* Renames affecting the PVE savevm-async patch:
migrate_use_block() -> migrate_block() and ram_counters -> mig_stats
9d4b1e5f22 ("migration: Move migrate_use_block() to options.c")
aff3f6606d ("migration: Rename ram_counters to mig_stats")
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
where there is no good reason to keep them separate. It's a pain
during rebase if there are multiple patches changing the same code
over and over again. This was especially bad for the backup-related
patches. If the history of patches really is needed, it can be
extracted via git. Additionally, compilation with partial application
of patches was broken since a long time, because one of the master key
changes became part of an earlier patch during a past rebase.
If only the same files were changed by a subsequent patch and the
changes felt to belong together (obvious for later bug fixes, but also
done for features e.g. adding master key support for PBS), the patches
were squashed together.
The PBS namespace support patch was split into the individual parts
it changes, i.e. PBS block driver, pbs-restore binary and QMP backup
infrastructure, and squashed into the respective patches.
No code change is intended, git diff in the submodule should not show
any difference between applying all patches before this commit and
applying all patches after this commit.
The query-proxmox-support QMP function has been left as part of the
"PVE-Backup: Proxmox backup patches for QEMU" patch, because it's
currently only used there. If it ever is used elsewhere too, it can
be split out from there.
The recent alloc-track and BQL-related savevm-async changes have been
left separate for now, because it's not 100% clear they are the best
approach yet. This depends on what upstream decides about the BQL
stuff and whether and what kind of issues with the changes pop up.
The qemu-img dd snapshot patch has been re-ordered to after the other
qemu-img dd patches.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Many changes were necessary this time around:
* QAPI was changed to avoid redundant has_* variables, see commit
44ea9d9be3 ("qapi: Start to elide redundant has_FOO in generated C")
for details. This affected many QMP commands added by Proxmox too.
* Pending querying for migration got split into two functions, one to
estimate, one for exact value, see commit c8df4a7aef ("migration:
Split save_live_pending() into state_pending_*") for details. Relevant
for savevm-async and PBS dirty bitmap.
* Some block (driver) functions got converted to coroutines, so the
Proxmox block drivers needed to be adapted.
* Alloc track auto-detaching during PBS live restore got broken by
AioContext-related changes resulting in a deadlock. The current, hacky
method was replaced by a simpler one. Stefan apparently ran into a
problem with that when he wrote the driver, but there were
improvements in the stream job code since then and I didn't manage to
reproduce the issue. It's a separate patch "alloc-track: fix deadlock
during drop" for now, you can find the details there.
* Async snapshot-related changes:
- The pending querying got adapted to the above-mentioned split and
a patch is added to optimize it/make it more similar to what
upstream code does.
- Added initialization of the compression counters (for
future-proofing).
- It's necessary the hold the BQL (big QEMU lock = iothread mutex)
during the setup phase, because block layer functions are used there
and not doing so leads to racy, hard-to-debug crashes or hangs. It's
necessary to change some upstream code too for this, a version of
the patch "migration: for snapshots, hold the BQL during setup
callbacks" is intended to be upstreamed.
- Need to take the bdrv graph read lock before flushing.
* hmp_info_balloon was moved to a different file.
* Needed to include a new headers from time to time to still get the
correct functions.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
User-facing breaking change:
The slirp submodule for user networking got removed. It would be
necessary to add the --enable-slirp option to the build and/or install
the appropriate library to continue building it. Since PVE is not
explicitly supporting it, it would require additionally installing the
libslirp0 package on all installations and there is *very* little
mention on the community forum when searching for "slirp" or
"netdev user", the plan is to only enable it again if there is some
real demand for it.
Notable changes:
* The big change for this release is the rework of job locking, using
a job mutex and introducing _locked() variants of job API functions
moving away from call-side AioContext locking. See (in the qemu
submodule) commit 6f592e5aca ("job.c: enable job lock/unlock and
remove Aiocontext locks") and previous commits for context.
Changes required for the backup patches:
* Use WITH_JOB_LOCK_GUARD() and call the _locked() variant of job
API functions where appropriate (many are only availalbe as
a _locked() variant).
* Remove acquiring/releasing AioContext around functions taking the
job mutex lock internally.
The patch introducing sequential transaction support for jobs needs
to temporarily unlock the job mutex to call job_start() when
starting the next job in the transaction.
* The zeroinit block driver now marks its child as primary.
The documentation in include/block/block-common.h states:
> Filter node has exactly one FILTERED|PRIMARY child, and may have
> other children which must not have these bits
Without this, an assert will trigger when copying to a zeroinit target
with qemu-img convert, because bdrv_child_cb_attach() expects any
non-PRIMARY child to be not FILTERED:
> qemu-img convert -n -p -f raw -O raw input.raw zeroinit:output.raw
> qemu-img: ../block.c:1476: bdrv_child_cb_attach: Assertion
> `!(child->role & BDRV_CHILD_FILTERED)' failed.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Notable changes:
* The only big change is the switch to using a custom QIOChannel for
savevm-async, because the previously used QEMUFileOps was dropped.
Changes to the current implementation:
* Switch to vector based methods as required for an IO channel. For
short reads the passed-in IO vector is stuffed with zeroes at the
end, just to be sure.
* For reading: The documentation in include/io/channel.h states that
at least one byte should be read, so also error out when whe are
at the very end instead of returning 0.
* For reading: Fix off-by-one error when request goes beyond end.
The wrong code piece was:
if ((pos + size) > maxlen) {
size = maxlen - pos - 1;
}
Previously, the last byte would not be read. It's actually
possible to get a snapshot .raw file that has content all the way
up the final 512 byte (= BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE) boundary without any
trailing zero bytes (I wrote a script to do it).
Luckily, it didn't cause a real issue, because qemu_loadvm_state()
is not interested in the final (i.e. QEMU_VM_VMDESCRIPTION)
section. The buffer for reading it is simply freed up afterwards
and the function will assume that it read the whole section, even
if that's not the case.
* For writing: Make use of the generated blk_pwritev() wrapper
instead of manually wrapping the coroutine to simplify and save a
few lines.
* Adapt to changed interfaces for blk_{pread,pwrite}:
* a9262f551e ("block: Change blk_{pread,pwrite}() param order")
* 3b35d4542c ("block: Add a 'flags' param to blk_pread()")
* bf5b16fa40 ("block: Make blk_{pread,pwrite}() return 0 on success")
Those changes especially affected the qemu-img dd patches, because
the context also changed, but also some of our block drivers used
the functions.
* Drop qemu-common.h include: it got renamed after essentially
everything was moved to other headers. The only remaining user I
could find for things dropped from the header between 7.0 and 7.1
was qemu_get_vm_name() in the iscsi-initiatorname patch, but it
already includes the header to which the function was moved.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
This drops debian/patches/pve/0005-PVE-Config-smm_available-false.patch
(and renumbers the remaining patches)
From what I could gather, this patch was originally added
due to issues with old kernels. Now we have users which
seem to run into issues *with* the patch.
All this does is toggle an option, and it's available via a
qemu CLI option anyway, so if dropping this patch causes
issues for some people we can just add an option to
qemu-server & UI control smm explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>
Cc: Alexandre Derumier <aderumier@odiso.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
Mostly minor changes, bigger ones summarized:
* QEMU's internal backup code now uses a new async system, which allows
parallel requests - the default max_workers settings is 64, I chose
less, since 64 put enough stress on QEMU that the guest became
practically unusable during the backup, and 16 still shows quite a
nice measureable performance improvement. Little code changes for us
though.
* 'malformed' QAPI parameters/functions are now a build error (i.e.
using '_' vs '-'), I chose to just whitelist our calls in the name of
backwards compatibility.
* monitor OOB race fix now uses the upstream variant, cherry-picked from
origin/master since it's not in 6.0 by default
* last patch fixes a bug with snapshot rollback related to the new yank
system
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
Lots of patches touched and some slight changes to the build process
since QEMU switched to meson as their build system. Functionality-wise
very little rebasing required.
New patches introduced:
* pve/0058: to fix VMA backups and clean up some code in general with
new 5.2 features now available to us (namely coroutine-enabled QMP).
* extra/0002: don't build man pages for guest agent when disabled
* extra/0003: fix live-migration with hugepages
* 0017 and 0018 are adjusted to fix snapshot abort and improve
snap performance a bit
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
No major semantic changes, mostly just deprecations and changed function
signatures. Drop the extra/ patches, as they have been applied upstream.
The added extra/ patch was accepted upstream[0] but has not been picked
up for 5.1. It is required for non-4M aligned backups to work with PBS.
[0] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-08/msg01671.html
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <s.reiter@proxmox.com>
Fiona Ebner