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From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
To: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: bitmap migration bug with -drive while block mirror runs
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 13:45:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191001114514.GA9210@angien.pipo.sk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f84745dc-68df-c10a-a91b-a28498e54870@virtuozzo.com>

On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 08:57:37 +0000, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> 01.10.2019 3:09, John Snow wrote:
> > Hi folks, I identified a problem with the migration code that Red Hat QE
> > found and thought you'd like to see it:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652424#c20
> > 
> > Very, very briefly: drive-mirror inserts a filter node that changes what
> > bdrv_get_device_or_node_name() returns, which causes a migration problem.
> > 
> > 
> > Ignorant question #1: Can we multi-parent the filter node and
> > source-node? It looks like at the moment both consider their only parent
> > to be the block-job and don't have a link back to their parents otherwise.
> > 
> > 
> > Otherwise: I have a lot of cloudy ideas on how to solve this, but
> > ultimately what we want is to be able to find the "addressable" name for
> > the node the bitmap is attached to, which would be the name of the first
> > ancestor node that isn't a filter. (OR, the name of the block-backend
> > above that node.)
> 
> 
> Better would be to migrate by node-name only.. But am I right that node-names
> are different on source and destination? Or this situation changed?

They may be different. Some time ago when I asked I was told that node
names are not bound to any state in qemu and thus can be re-created on
destination. Otherwise they technically become guest ABI which would
require changes to libvirt's blockdev usage.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-01 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-01  0:09 bitmap migration bug with -drive while block mirror runs John Snow
2019-10-01  4:28 ` Peter Krempa
2019-10-01  9:07   ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-01  8:57 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-01  9:54   ` Kevin Wolf
2019-10-01 10:05     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-01 13:24     ` Peter Krempa
2019-10-01 15:09     ` John Snow
2019-10-01 15:58       ` Kevin Wolf
2019-10-01 16:12         ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-01 16:24           ` Kevin Wolf
2019-10-01 16:23         ` John Snow
2019-10-01 11:45   ` Peter Krempa [this message]
2019-10-01  9:17 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-01 14:00 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-01 14:10   ` John Snow
2019-10-01 15:57     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-01 16:07       ` John Snow
2019-10-02  8:12         ` Kevin Wolf
2019-10-02 10:46         ` Peter Krempa
2019-10-02 11:11           ` Kevin Wolf
2019-10-02 12:22             ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-02 13:48               ` Peter Krempa
2019-10-02 13:43             ` Peter Krempa
2019-10-02 14:03               ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-02 21:35           ` John Snow
2019-10-03 10:14             ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-03 23:34               ` John Snow
2019-10-04  8:33                 ` Peter Krempa
2019-10-04  9:21                   ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-06  3:15                   ` John Snow
2019-10-04  9:24                 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-04 13:07                   ` Eric Blake
2019-10-06  3:19                     ` John Snow
2019-10-01 16:16       ` Kevin Wolf
2019-10-01 16:17         ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-01 14:13   ` Max Reitz
2019-10-01 14:27     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-01 14:34       ` Max Reitz
2019-10-01 14:53         ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-10-01 15:26           ` Max Reitz
2019-10-02  7:34             ` Peter Krempa
2019-10-01 15:09         ` Kevin Wolf
2019-10-01 15:27           ` Max Reitz
2019-10-01 16:12             ` Kevin Wolf
2019-10-01 16:17               ` Max Reitz
2019-10-01 16:22                 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy

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