From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Yash Mankad <ymankad@redhat.com>,
Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>,
Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>,
"Danilo C. L. de Paula" <ddepaula@redhat.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] pc: Don't make CPU properties mandatory unless necessary
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:42:41 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190816174241.GE3908@habkost.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h86hpae5.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 02:22:58PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 08:10:20AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > We have this issue reported when using libvirt to hotplug CPUs:
> >> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1741451
> >> >
> >> > Basically, libvirt is not copying die-id from
> >> > query-hotpluggable-cpus, but die-id is now mandatory.
> >>
> >> Uh-oh, "is now mandatory": making an optional property mandatory is an
> >> incompatible change. When did we do that? Commit hash, please.
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >
> > I don't even see it as being optional ever - the property wasn't even
> > recognized before commit 176d2cda0de introduced it as mandatory.
>
> Compatibility break.
>
> Commit 176d2cda0de is in v4.1.0. If I had learned about it a bit
> earlier, I would've argued for a last minute fix or a revert. Now we
> have a regression in the release.
>
> Eduardo, I think this fix should go into v4.1.1. Please add cc:
> qemu-stable.
I did it in v2.
>
> How can we best avoid such compatibility breaks to slip in undetected?
>
> A static checker would be nice. For vmstate, we have
> scripts/vmstate-static-checker.py. Not sure it's used.
I don't think this specific bug would be detected with a static
checker. "die-id is mandatory" is not something that can be
extracted by looking at QOM data structures. The new rule was
being enforced by the hotplug handler callbacks, and the hotplug
handler call tree is a bit complex (too complex for my taste, but
I digress).
We could have detected this with a simple CPU hotplug automated
test case, though. Or with a very simple -device test case like
the one I have submitted with this patch.
This was detected by libvirt automated test cases. It would be
nice if this was run during the -rc stage and not only after the
4.1.0 release, though.
I don't know details of the test job. Danilo, Mirek, Yash: do
you know how this bug was detected, and what we could do to run
the same test jobs in upstream QEMU release candidates?
--
Eduardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-16 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-15 18:38 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] pc: Fix die-id validation and compatibility with libvirt Eduardo Habkost
2019-08-15 18:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] pc: Fix error message on die-id validation Eduardo Habkost
2019-08-15 20:04 ` Vanderson Martins do Rosario
2019-08-16 1:04 ` Like Xu
2019-08-16 13:49 ` Eduardo Habkost
2019-08-19 0:53 ` Like Xu
2019-08-16 6:06 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-08-16 14:04 ` Igor Mammedov
2019-08-15 18:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] pc: Improve error message when die-id is omitted Eduardo Habkost
2019-08-15 20:11 ` Vanderson Martins do Rosario
2019-08-16 14:06 ` Igor Mammedov
2019-08-15 18:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] pc: Don't make CPU properties mandatory unless necessary Eduardo Habkost
2019-08-16 6:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-08-16 7:49 ` Erik Skultety
2019-08-16 12:22 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-08-16 17:42 ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]
2019-08-16 21:07 ` Yash Mankad
2019-08-20 21:06 ` Eduardo Habkost
2019-08-17 5:34 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-08-16 16:49 ` Eduardo Habkost
2019-08-16 13:20 ` Igor Mammedov
2019-08-16 16:56 ` Eduardo Habkost
2019-08-17 6:17 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-08-26 14:51 ` Igor Mammedov
2019-08-27 16:15 ` Markus Armbruster
2019-08-28 15:27 ` Igor Mammedov
2019-08-19 19:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] pc: Fix die-id validation and compatibility with libvirt Michael S. Tsirkin
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