Re: [libvirt] Problems with attach-device/detach-device using libvirt 0.7.6
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:24:11PM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
Hi,
first a short summary of what the situation is:
I'm running qemu 0.12.2, libvirt 0.7.6 on a E5520 based machine with kernel
2.6.33. I also tried 2.6.32.7 as I was using that before and still had the old
kernel around, but kernel version doesn't matter AFAICT. The host is a gentoo
AMD64 installation, the client is SuSE 11.0 (both 32 and 64 bit tested).
This system is our machine to run automated PCIe device tests on, so the idea
is to move PCIe devices from the host to different vms, run some testcases
there and then move them away again. This has worked before (I'm not
absolutely sure, but I would bet a bit of money that it was libvirt 0.7.5).
So, what I'm going to do is simply
virsh # attach-device suse11.0-AMD64 dev-pci-AD1-CL.xml
Device attached successfully
virsh # detach-device suse11.0-AMD64 dev-pci-AD1-CL.xml
Device detached successfully
This is just was I expect and what I now get with the two patches attached.
The original situation was somewhat different (i.e. broken):
-first I got complains in the log stating:
tried to create id "(null)" twice for "device"
Well, adding two devices with the same id is bad, and if that id is a NULL
pointer anyway IMHO it's better to not pass the parameter at all. That's what
the "null-pci-id" patch does.
The goal of libvirt when using QEMU >= 0.12 is that 'id=' parameter is set
for all devices. This enables libvirt reliably identify devices when talking
to QEMU. Since you were seeing '(null)' there must be a place in the code
where we've forgotton to generate the device alias name for hotplug. We should
fix that, rather than hiding the problem.
-next, detaching failed. I found out that the command sent to qemu was "
pci_del pci_addr=fc67add0:7f41:fe38b65a" which is obviously bogus. After some
hours of digging through the command stack up and down I found that it was the
memcpy addressed in the "pci_memcpy" patch.
When the device is attached qemu just replies with an empty string. Afterwards
from the guestAddr the address of the PCI device in the client is copied back
to the info structure. Too bad that this structure was never initialized to
anything useful (at least not for me). When I kick out the memcpy() everything
works fine.
Ok, I see what's wrong here. The code has two ways of attaching devices
if (qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_DEVICE)
ret = qemuMonitorAddDevice(priv->mon, devstr);
else
ret = qemuMonitorAddPCIHostDevice(priv->mon,
&hostdev->source.subsys.u.pci,
&guestAddr);
With the qemuMonitorAddDevice() method, libvirt decides the PCi address ahead
of time. In the qemuMonitorAddPCIHostDevice() method, QEMU decides the PCI
addresses & tells us about it. Thus we only want todo the memcpy() bit in the
'else' case, never the 'if' case.
Note: when the client PCI id is passed to qemu anyway it would be
cool if that
could be specified in the device XML. For USB devices, too.
You already can supply the PCI address in the XML - if you run 'virsh dumpxml'
on your running guest you'll see the syntax for PCI addresses. For USB devices,
the device IDs on the bus are assigned by the guest OS when it activates the
USB devices, so I don't think there's any way to allow user specification of
that
Regards,
Daniel
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