Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] qemu: Adjust max memlock on mdev hotplug

When starting a domain, we use the presence of a vfio-pci or mdev hostdev to determine if the memlock maximum needs to be increased. But if we hotplug either of these devices, only the vfio-pci path gets that love. This means that attaching a, say, vfio-ccw device will appear to succeed but the device may be unusable as the guest may see I/O errors on long CCW chains. The host, meanwhile, would be flooded with these messages: vfio_pin_page_external: Task qemu-system-s39 (11584) RLIMIT_MEMLOCK (65536) exceeded Let's adjust the maximum memlock value in the mdev hotplug path, so that the domain has the same value as if it were started with one or more mdev devices in its configuration. (Note: I started trying to refactor qemuDomainAdjustMaxMemLockHostdev() to address the "A better way to handle this would be nice" comment, but the result was getting way too involved for the problem I was trying to fix. Maybe another day.) Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman(a)linux.ibm.com&gt; ---

src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c index 979e97b608..ae7c5395d2 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c @@ -2755,6 +2755,7 @@ qemuDomainAttachMediatedDevice(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, bool teardowncgroup = false; bool teardownlabel = false; bool teardowndevice = false; + bool teardownmemlock = false; qemuDomainObjPrivatePtr priv = vm->privateData; virDomainDeviceDef dev = { VIR_DOMAIN_DEVICE_HOSTDEV, { .hostdev = hostdev } }; @@ -2798,6 +2799,10 @@ qemuDomainAttachMediatedDevice(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, if (VIR_REALLOC_N(vm->def->hostdevs, vm->def->nhostdevs + 1) < 0) goto cleanup; + if (qemuDomainAdjustMaxMemLockHostdev(vm, hostdev) < 0) + goto cleanup; + teardownmemlock = true; + qemuDomainObjEnterMonitor(driver, vm); ret = qemuMonitorAddDevice(priv->mon, devstr); if (qemuDomainObjExitMonitor(driver, vm) < 0) { @@ -2813,6 +2818,8 @@ qemuDomainAttachMediatedDevice(virQEMUDriverPtr driver, ret = 0; cleanup: if (ret < 0) { + if (teardownmemlock && qemuDomainAdjustMaxMemLock(vm) < 0) + VIR_WARN("Unable to reset maximum locked memory on hotplug fail"); if (teardowncgroup && qemuTeardownHostdevCgroup(vm, hostdev) < 0) VIR_WARN("Unable to remove host device cgroup ACL on hotplug fail"); if (teardownlabel &&