RE: [PATCH 1/3] net/colo-compare.c: Create event_bh with the right AioContext

["Zhang, Chen" <chen.zhang@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Su <dereksu@qnap.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 12:37 PM
> To: Zhang, Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>; Lukas Straub
> <lukasstraub2@web.de>
> Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>; Li Zhijian
> <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>; Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>; Marc-
> André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>; Paolo Bonzini
> <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net/colo-compare.c: Create event_bh with the right
> AioContext
> 
> On 2020/4/23 下午3:29, Zhang, Chen wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:40 PM
> >> To: Zhang, Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>
> >> Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>; Li Zhijian
> >> <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>; Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>; Marc-
> >> André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>; Paolo Bonzini
> >> <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net/colo-compare.c: Create event_bh with the
> >> right AioContext
> >>
> >> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:03:00 +0000
> >> "Zhang, Chen" <chen.zhang@intel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de>
> >>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 4:43 PM
> >>>> To: Zhang, Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>
> >>>> Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>; Li Zhijian
> >>>> <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>; Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>;
> Marc-
> >>>> André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>; Paolo Bonzini
> >>>> <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net/colo-compare.c: Create event_bh with
> >>>> the right AioContext
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:29:39 +0000
> >>>> "Zhang, Chen" <chen.zhang@intel.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>> From: Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de>
> >>>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 2:34 AM
> >>>>>> To: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
> >>>>>> Cc: Zhang, Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>; Li Zhijian
> >>>>>> <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>; Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>;
> >>>>>> Marc- André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>; Paolo
> Bonzini
> >>>>>> <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> >>>>>> Subject: [PATCH 1/3] net/colo-compare.c: Create event_bh with the
> >>>>>> right AioContext
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> qemu_bh_new will set the bh to be executed in the main loop.
> >>>>>> This causes problems as colo_compare_handle_event assumes that
> it
> >>>>>> has exclusive access the queues, which are also accessed in the
> >>>>>> iothread. It also assumes that it runs in a different thread than
> >>>>>> the caller and takes the appropriate locks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Create the bh with the AioContext of the iothread to fulfill
> >>>>>> these assumptions.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Looks good for me, I assume it will increase performance. Do you
> >>>>> have
> >>>> related data?
> >>>>
> >>>> No, this fixes several crashes because the queues where accessed
> >>>> concurrently from multiple threads. Sorry for my bad wording.
> >>>
> >>> Can you describe some details about the crash? Step by step?
> >>> Maybe I can re-produce and test it for this patch.
> >>
> >> There is no clear test case. For me the crashes happened after 1-20h
> >> of runtime with lots of checkpoints (800ms) and some network traffic.
> >> The coredump always showed that two threads where doing operations
> on
> >> the queues simultaneously.
> >> Unfortunately, I don't have the coredumps anymore.
> >
> > OK, Although I have not encountered the problem you described.
> > I have test this patch, looks running fine.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Zhang Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Zhang Chen
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I encountered PVM crash caused by the race condition issue in v4.2.0.
> Here is the coredump for reference.
> 
> ```
> warning: core file may not match specified executable file.
>   Core was generated by `qemu-system-x86_64 -name source -enable-kvm -
> cpu core2duo -m 1024 -global kvm-a'.
>   Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>   #0 0x000055cb478bcd25 in qemu_hexdump (buf=0x0, fp=0x7f6e9122b680
> <IO_2_1_stderr>, prefix=0x55cb47a388f5 "colo-compare spkt", size=1514) at
> util/hexdump.c:34
>   34 fprintf(fp, " %02x", (unsigned char)buf[b + i]);
>   [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f6da1ade700 (LWP 6119))]
>   (gdb) where
>   #0 0x000055cb478bcd25 in qemu_hexdump (buf=0x0, fp=0x7f6e9122b680
> <IO_2_1_stderr>, prefix=0x55cb47a388f5 "colo-compare spkt", size=1514) at
> util/hexdump.c:34
>   #1 0x000055cb476fa1b5 in colo_compare_tcp (s=0x55cb496429f0,
> conn=0x7f6e78003e30) at net/colo-compare.c:462
>   #2 0x000055cb476fa8c1 in colo_compare_connection
> (opaque=0x7f6e78003e30, user_data=0x55cb496429f0) at net/colo-
> compare.c:687
>   #3 0x000055cb476fb4ab in compare_pri_rs_finalize
> (pri_rs=0x55cb49642b18) at net/colo-compare.c:1001
>   #4 0x000055cb476eb46f in net_fill_rstate (rs=0x55cb49642b18,
> buf=0x7f6da1add2c8 "", size=1064) at net/net.c:1764
>   #5 0x000055cb476faafa in compare_pri_chr_in (opaque=0x55cb496429f0,
> buf=0x7f6da1adc6f0 "`E˧V\210RT", size=4096) at net/colo-compare.c:776
>   #6 0x000055cb47815363 in qemu_chr_be_write_impl (s=0x55cb48c87ec0,
> buf=0x7f6da1adc6f0 "`E˧V\210RT", len=4096) at chardev/char.c:177
>   #7 0x000055cb478153c7 in qemu_chr_be_write (s=0x55cb48c87ec0,
> buf=0x7f6da1adc6f0 "`E˧V\210RT", len=4096) at chardev/char.c:189
>   #8 0x000055cb4781e002 in tcp_chr_read (chan=0x55cb48ef7690,
> cond=G_IO_IN, opaque=0x55cb48c87ec0) at chardev/char-socket.c:525
>   #9 0x000055cb47839655 in qio_channel_fd_source_dispatch
> (source=0x7f6e78002050, callback=0x55cb4781de53 <tcp_chr_read>,
> user_data=0x55cb48c87ec0) at io/channel-watch.c:84
>   #10 0x00007f6e950e1285 in g_main_context_dispatch () at
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
>   #11 0x00007f6e950e1650 in () at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
>   #12 0x00007f6e950e1962 in g_main_loop_run () at
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0
>   #13 0x000055cb474920ae in iothread_run (opaque=0x55cb48c67f10) at
> iothread.c:82
>   #14 0x000055cb478a699d in qemu_thread_start (args=0x55cb498035d0) at
> util/qemu-thread-posix.c:519
>   #15 0x00007f6e912376db in start_thread (arg=0x7f6da1ade700) at
> pthread_create.c:463
>   #16 0x00007f6e90f6088f in clone () at
> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:95
>   (gdb)
> ```
> 
> COLO works well after applying this patch in my tests.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Derek Su <dereksu@qnap.com>
> Tested-by: Derek Su <dereksu@qnap.com>
> 

Thanks Derek.

> Regards,
> Derek
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Lukas Straub
> >>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Zhang Chen
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Lukas Straub
> >>>>
> >>>>> Thanks
> >>>>> Zhang Chen
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de>
> >>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>   net/colo-compare.c | 3 ++-
> >>>>>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> diff --git a/net/colo-compare.c b/net/colo-compare.c index
> >>>>>> 10c0239f9d..1de4220fe2 100644
> >>>>>> --- a/net/colo-compare.c
> >>>>>> +++ b/net/colo-compare.c
> >>>>>> @@ -890,6 +890,7 @@ static void colo_compare_handle_event(void
> >>>>>> *opaque)
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   static void colo_compare_iothread(CompareState *s)  {
> >>>>>> +    AioContext *ctx = iothread_get_aio_context(s->iothread);
> >>>>>>       object_ref(OBJECT(s->iothread));
> >>>>>>       s->worker_context =
> >>>>>> iothread_get_g_main_context(s->iothread);
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> @@ -906,7 +907,7 @@ static void
> >>>>>> colo_compare_iothread(CompareState
> >>>> *s)
> >>>>>>       }
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>       colo_compare_timer_init(s);
> >>>>>> -    s->event_bh = qemu_bh_new(colo_compare_handle_event, s);
> >>>>>> +    s->event_bh = aio_bh_new(ctx, colo_compare_handle_event, s);
> >>>>>>   }
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   static char *compare_get_pri_indev(Object *obj, Error **errp)
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> 2.20.1
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >