8:25 a.m.
All the details are in the commit message for patch 2/2.
Andrea Bolognani (2):
qemu: Clean up qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine()
qemu: Order PCI controllers on the command line
src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 91 +++++++++++++++-------
.../qemuxml2argv-pci-autoadd-idx.args | 2 +-
.../qemuxml2argv-pseries-many-buses-2.args | 4 +-
3 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
--
2.13.5
8:25 a.m.
New subject: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] qemu: Clean up qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine()
Add a cleanup: label, which will be used later, and improve
the readability of one of the checks by making it conform to
our formatting standard and moving a comment.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com>
---
src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index 9a27987d4..83430b33f 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -3122,6 +3122,7 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_VIRTIO_SERIAL,
VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_CCID,
};
+ int ret = -1;
for (j = 0; j < ARRAY_CARDINALITY(contOrder); j++) {
for (i = 0; i < def->ncontrollers; i++) {
@@ -3183,7 +3184,7 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s",
_("Multiple legacy USB controllers are "
"not supported"));
- return -1;
+ goto cleanup;
}
usblegacy = true;
continue;
@@ -3191,7 +3192,7 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
if (qemuBuildControllerDevStr(def, cont, qemuCaps,
&devstr, &usbcontroller) < 0)
- return -1;
+ goto cleanup;
if (devstr) {
virCommandAddArg(cmd, "-device");
@@ -3201,16 +3202,20 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
}
}
- /* We haven't added any USB controller yet, but we haven't been asked
- * not to add one either. Add a legacy USB controller, unless we're
- * creating a kind of guest we want to keep legacy-free */
if (usbcontroller == 0 &&
!qemuDomainIsQ35(def) &&
!qemuDomainIsVirt(def) &&
- !ARCH_IS_S390(def->os.arch))
+ !ARCH_IS_S390(def->os.arch)) {
+ /* We haven't added any USB controller yet, but we haven't been asked
+ * not to add one either. Add a legacy USB controller, unless we're
+ * creating a kind of guest we want to keep legacy-free */
virCommandAddArg(cmd, "-usb");
+ }
- return 0;
+ ret = 0;
+
+ cleanup:
+ return ret;
}
--
2.13.5
10:31 a.m.
New subject: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] qemu: Clean up qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine()
On 09/05/2017 09:25 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Add a cleanup: label, which will be used later, and improve
the readability of one of the checks by making it conform to
our formatting standard and moving a comment.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com>
---
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine(a)laine.org>
(or "ACK" if you prefer. I'm still unclear who is on which side of this
debate, and why.)
src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index 9a27987d4..83430b33f 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -3122,6 +3122,7 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_VIRTIO_SERIAL,
VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_CCID,
};
+ int ret = -1;
for (j = 0; j < ARRAY_CARDINALITY(contOrder); j++) {
for (i = 0; i < def->ncontrollers; i++) {
@@ -3183,7 +3184,7 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s",
_("Multiple legacy USB controllers are "
"not supported"));
- return -1;
+ goto cleanup;
}
usblegacy = true;
continue;
@@ -3191,7 +3192,7 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
if (qemuBuildControllerDevStr(def, cont, qemuCaps,
&devstr, &usbcontroller) < 0)
- return -1;
+ goto cleanup;
if (devstr) {
virCommandAddArg(cmd, "-device");
@@ -3201,16 +3202,20 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
}
}
- /* We haven't added any USB controller yet, but we haven't been asked
- * not to add one either. Add a legacy USB controller, unless we're
- * creating a kind of guest we want to keep legacy-free */
if (usbcontroller == 0 &&
!qemuDomainIsQ35(def) &&
!qemuDomainIsVirt(def) &&
- !ARCH_IS_S390(def->os.arch))
+ !ARCH_IS_S390(def->os.arch)) {
+ /* We haven't added any USB controller yet, but we haven't been asked
+ * not to add one either. Add a legacy USB controller, unless we're
+ * creating a kind of guest we want to keep legacy-free */
virCommandAddArg(cmd, "-usb");
+ }
- return 0;
+ ret = 0;
+
+ cleanup:
+ return ret;
}
8:25 a.m.
New subject: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] qemu: Order PCI controllers on the command line
Unlike other controllers, PCI controller can plug into each other,
which might turn into a problem if they are not listed in the
expected order on the QEMU command line, because the guest will
then not be able to start with an error such as
qemu-kvm: -device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=3,id=pci.3,bus=pci.2.0,addr=0x7:
Bus 'pci.2.0' not found
Add some logic to make sure PCI controller appear in the correct
order on the QEMU command line, regardless of the order they were
added to the guest configuration.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1479674
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com>
---
src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++------
.../qemuxml2argv-pci-autoadd-idx.args | 2 +-
.../qemuxml2argv-pseries-many-buses-2.args | 4 +-
3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index 83430b33f..c0e60a184 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -3096,6 +3096,8 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
virQEMUCapsPtr qemuCaps)
{
size_t i, j;
+ size_t *pciContIndex;
+ size_t npciContIndex;
int usbcontroller = 0;
bool usblegacy = false;
int contOrder[] = {
@@ -3107,14 +3109,10 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
* machines. For newer Q35 machines it is added out of the
* controllers loop, after the floppy drives.
*
- * We don't add PCI/PCIe root controller either, because it's
- * implicit, but we do add PCI bridges and other PCI
- * controllers, so we leave that in to check each
- * one. Likewise, we don't do anything for the primary IDE
+ * Likewise, we don't do anything for the primary IDE
* controller on an i440fx machine or primary SATA on q35, but
* we do add those beyond these two exceptions.
*/
- VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_PCI,
VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_USB,
VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_SCSI,
VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_IDE,
@@ -3124,6 +3122,54 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
};
int ret = -1;
+ /* PCI controllers require special handling because they plug into
+ * each other, which makes getting the ordering right on the QEMU
+ * command line crucial: if we don't, and eg. list a pci-bridge
+ * before the pci-root it plugs into, the guest will not start */
+
+ npciContIndex = 0;
+ if (VIR_ALLOC_N(pciContIndex, def->ncontrollers) < 0)
+ goto cleanup;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < def->ncontrollers; i++) {
+ virDomainControllerDefPtr cont = def->controllers[i];
+
+ if (cont->type != VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_PCI)
+ continue;
+
+ pciContIndex[cont->idx] = i;
+ npciContIndex = MAX(npciContIndex, cont->idx + 1);
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < npciContIndex; i++) {
+ virDomainControllerDefPtr cont = def->controllers[pciContIndex[i]];
+ char *devstr;
+
+ if (cont->type != VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_PCI)
+ continue;
+
+ /* skip pcie-root */
+ if (cont->model == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_MODEL_PCIE_ROOT)
+ continue;
+
+ /* Skip pci-root, except for pSeries guests (which actually
+ * support more than one PCI Host Bridge per guest) */
+ if (!qemuDomainIsPSeries(def) &&
+ cont->model == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_MODEL_PCI_ROOT) {
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (qemuBuildControllerDevStr(def, cont, qemuCaps,
+ &devstr, &usbcontroller) < 0)
+ goto cleanup;
+
+ if (devstr) {
+ virCommandAddArg(cmd, "-device");
+ virCommandAddArg(cmd, devstr);
+ VIR_FREE(devstr);
+ }
+ }
+
for (j = 0; j < ARRAY_CARDINALITY(contOrder); j++) {
for (i = 0; i < def->ncontrollers; i++) {
virDomainControllerDefPtr cont = def->controllers[i];
@@ -3139,20 +3185,6 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
continue;
}
- /* skip pcie-root */
- if (cont->type == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_PCI &&
- cont->model == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_MODEL_PCIE_ROOT) {
- continue;
- }
-
- /* Skip pci-root, except for pSeries guests (which actually
- * support more than one PCI Host Bridge per guest) */
- if (!qemuDomainIsPSeries(def) &&
- cont->type == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_PCI &&
- cont->model == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_MODEL_PCI_ROOT) {
- continue;
- }
-
/* first SATA controller on Q35 machines is implicit */
if (cont->type == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_SATA &&
cont->idx == 0 && qemuDomainIsQ35(def))
@@ -3215,6 +3247,8 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
ret = 0;
cleanup:
+ VIR_FREE(pciContIndex);
+
return ret;
}
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pci-autoadd-idx.args
b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pci-autoadd-idx.args
index 6b2f21bba..c03f72d96 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pci-autoadd-idx.args
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pci-autoadd-idx.args
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
server,nowait \
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline \
-boot c \
--device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=8,id=pci.8,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=1,id=pci.1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 \
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=2,id=pci.2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 \
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=3,id=pci.3,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 \
@@ -25,6 +24,7 @@ server,nowait \
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=5,id=pci.5,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 \
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=6,id=pci.6,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9 \
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=7,id=pci.7,bus=pci.0,addr=0xa \
+-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=8,id=pci.8,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
-usb \
-drive file=/var/iso/f18kde.iso,format=raw,if=none,media=cdrom,\
id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on \
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-many-buses-2.args
b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-many-buses-2.args
index 13fed02f8..7b2171f59 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-many-buses-2.args
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-many-buses-2.args
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@ QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
server,nowait \
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline \
-boot c \
--device spapr-pci-host-bridge,index=1,id=pci.2 \
--device spapr-pci-host-bridge,index=2,id=pci.1
+-device spapr-pci-host-bridge,index=2,id=pci.1 \
+-device spapr-pci-host-bridge,index=1,id=pci.2
--
2.13.5
8:36 p.m.
New subject: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] qemu: Order PCI controllers on the command line
On 09/05/2017 09:25 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Unlike other controllers, PCI controller can plug into each other,
s/PCI controller/PCI controllers/
which might turn into a problem if they are not listed in the
expected order on the QEMU command line, because the guest will
then not be able to start with an error such as
qemu-kvm: -device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=3,id=pci.3,bus=pci.2.0,addr=0x7:
Bus 'pci.2.0' not found
Add some logic to make sure PCI controller appear in the correct
s/PCI controller/PCI controllers/
order on the QEMU command line, regardless of the order they were
added to the guest configuration.
Before examining the code, one concern I had was whether an
*unnecessary* re-ordering would cause a guest ABI change. So I decided
to try testing it by making an XML file with the pci controller indexes
out of order. Unfortunately, when you try to do that, libvirt ends up
inserting the controllers into its internal list in sorted order, so
it's not even possible to force/fake libvirt into putting the
controllers in the wrong order - no matter what you try, the following
will happen:
1) if the indexes are out of order in the input XML, libvirt will
re-order them as it parses.
2) if any pci controller's address (the slot it's plugged into) has a
bus attribute that is higher than that controller's own index, libvirt
logs an error and fails the operation.
So under normal circumstances, I think that the situation you're talking
about can't happen.
*BUT*
The one exception to this is when libvirt auto-adds controllers in order
to fill in unused indexes (e.g. if you have a pci controller with
index='8', but none with index='7', you'll automatically get an extra
controller added with index='7') or to provide a controller at the
proper index for a device that has a PCI address pointing to a
non-existent bus (this is the bug described in the referenced BZ). The
problem is that, when libvirt auto-adds these new controllers to the
controller array, it just appends them to the end, rather than inserting
them in proper sorted order. THAT is what leads to the problem. (as a
matter of fact, the next time you edit the domain in *any way*, the
issue is resolved because the parser re-orders the list of controllers).
I haven't tried it, but it looks to me like this could all be fixed by
simply changing the function virDomainDefAddController() to call
virDomainControllerInsert() to add the new controller at the proper
(sorted) place in the controller array instead of using
VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT_COPY() (which is what it does now). That has the nice
side effect of keeping the controllers listed in the XML in sorted
order, and making sure that the XML doesn't magically change when you
edit something unrelated.
I don't doubt that the code you've written below fixes the problem at
the time the commandline is generated (haven't tried it either :-), but
I think it's better to fix it back at its source, when the controllers
are auto-added.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1479674
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com>
---
src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++------
.../qemuxml2argv-pci-autoadd-idx.args | 2 +-
.../qemuxml2argv-pseries-many-buses-2.args | 4 +-
3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index 83430b33f..c0e60a184 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -3096,6 +3096,8 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
virQEMUCapsPtr qemuCaps)
{
size_t i, j;
+ size_t *pciContIndex;
+ size_t npciContIndex;
int usbcontroller = 0;
bool usblegacy = false;
int contOrder[] = {
@@ -3107,14 +3109,10 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
* machines. For newer Q35 machines it is added out of the
* controllers loop, after the floppy drives.
*
- * We don't add PCI/PCIe root controller either, because it's
- * implicit, but we do add PCI bridges and other PCI
- * controllers, so we leave that in to check each
- * one. Likewise, we don't do anything for the primary IDE
+ * Likewise, we don't do anything for the primary IDE
* controller on an i440fx machine or primary SATA on q35, but
* we do add those beyond these two exceptions.
*/
- VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_PCI,
VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_USB,
VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_SCSI,
VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_IDE,
@@ -3124,6 +3122,54 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
};
int ret = -1;
+ /* PCI controllers require special handling because they plug into
+ * each other, which makes getting the ordering right on the QEMU
+ * command line crucial: if we don't, and eg. list a pci-bridge
+ * before the pci-root it plugs into, the guest will not start */
+
+ npciContIndex = 0;
+ if (VIR_ALLOC_N(pciContIndex, def->ncontrollers) < 0)
+ goto cleanup;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < def->ncontrollers; i++) {
+ virDomainControllerDefPtr cont = def->controllers[i];
+
+ if (cont->type != VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_PCI)
+ continue;
+
+ pciContIndex[cont->idx] = i;
+ npciContIndex = MAX(npciContIndex, cont->idx + 1);
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < npciContIndex; i++) {
+ virDomainControllerDefPtr cont = def->controllers[pciContIndex[i]];
+ char *devstr;
+
+ if (cont->type != VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_PCI)
+ continue;
+
+ /* skip pcie-root */
+ if (cont->model == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_MODEL_PCIE_ROOT)
+ continue;
+
+ /* Skip pci-root, except for pSeries guests (which actually
+ * support more than one PCI Host Bridge per guest) */
+ if (!qemuDomainIsPSeries(def) &&
+ cont->model == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_MODEL_PCI_ROOT) {
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ if (qemuBuildControllerDevStr(def, cont, qemuCaps,
+ &devstr, &usbcontroller) < 0)
+ goto cleanup;
+
+ if (devstr) {
+ virCommandAddArg(cmd, "-device");
+ virCommandAddArg(cmd, devstr);
+ VIR_FREE(devstr);
+ }
+ }
+
for (j = 0; j < ARRAY_CARDINALITY(contOrder); j++) {
for (i = 0; i < def->ncontrollers; i++) {
virDomainControllerDefPtr cont = def->controllers[i];
@@ -3139,20 +3185,6 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
continue;
}
- /* skip pcie-root */
- if (cont->type == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_PCI &&
- cont->model == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_MODEL_PCIE_ROOT) {
- continue;
- }
-
- /* Skip pci-root, except for pSeries guests (which actually
- * support more than one PCI Host Bridge per guest) */
- if (!qemuDomainIsPSeries(def) &&
- cont->type == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_PCI &&
- cont->model == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_MODEL_PCI_ROOT) {
- continue;
- }
-
/* first SATA controller on Q35 machines is implicit */
if (cont->type == VIR_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_TYPE_SATA &&
cont->idx == 0 && qemuDomainIsQ35(def))
@@ -3215,6 +3247,8 @@ qemuBuildControllerDevCommandLine(virCommandPtr cmd,
ret = 0;
cleanup:
+ VIR_FREE(pciContIndex);
+
return ret;
}
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pci-autoadd-idx.args
b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pci-autoadd-idx.args
index 6b2f21bba..c03f72d96 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pci-autoadd-idx.args
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pci-autoadd-idx.args
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
server,nowait \
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline \
-boot c \
--device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=8,id=pci.8,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=1,id=pci.1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 \
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=2,id=pci.2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 \
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=3,id=pci.3,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 \
@@ -25,6 +24,7 @@ server,nowait \
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=5,id=pci.5,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 \
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=6,id=pci.6,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9 \
-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=7,id=pci.7,bus=pci.0,addr=0xa \
+-device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=8,id=pci.8,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 \
Yeah, this.
-usb \
-drive file=/var/iso/f18kde.iso,format=raw,if=none,media=cdrom,\
id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on \
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-many-buses-2.args
b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-many-buses-2.args
index 13fed02f8..7b2171f59 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-many-buses-2.args
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-pseries-many-buses-2.args
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@ QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=none \
server,nowait \
-mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=readline \
-boot c \
--device spapr-pci-host-bridge,index=1,id=pci.2 \
--device spapr-pci-host-bridge,index=2,id=pci.1
+-device spapr-pci-host-bridge,index=2,id=pci.1 \
+-device spapr-pci-host-bridge,index=1,id=pci.2
6:52 a.m.
New subject: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] qemu: Order PCI controllers on the command line
On Wed, 2017-09-06 at 21:36 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> Unlike other controllers, PCI controller can plug into each
other,
s/PCI controller/PCI controllers/
[...]
> Add some logic to make sure PCI controller appear in the
correct
s/PCI controller/PCI controllers/
Getthing it wrong once would be bad enough, but two times in a
row? That's just inexcusable :(
[...]
I haven't tried it, but it looks to me like this could all be
fixed by
simply changing the function virDomainDefAddController() to call
virDomainControllerInsert() to add the new controller at the proper
(sorted) place in the controller array instead of using
VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT_COPY() (which is what it does now). That has the nice
side effect of keeping the controllers listed in the XML in sorted
order, and making sure that the XML doesn't magically change when you
edit something unrelated.
I don't doubt that the code you've written below fixes the problem at
the time the commandline is generated (haven't tried it either :-), but
I think it's better to fix it back at its source, when the controllers
are auto-added.
Sounds like a superior approach indeed. Thanks for the suggestion,
I'll give it a go :)
--
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
6:22 a.m.
New subject: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] qemu: Order PCI controllers on the command line
On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 15:25:33 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Unlike other controllers, PCI controller can plug into each other,
which might turn into a problem if they are not listed in the
expected order on the QEMU command line, because the guest will
then not be able to start with an error such as
qemu-kvm: -device pci-bridge,chassis_nr=3,id=pci.3,bus=pci.2.0,addr=0x7:
Bus 'pci.2.0' not found
Add some logic to make sure PCI controller appear in the correct
order on the QEMU command line, regardless of the order they were
added to the guest configuration.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1479674
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna(a)redhat.com>
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src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++------
.../qemuxml2argv-pci-autoadd-idx.args | 2 +-
.../qemuxml2argv-pseries-many-buses-2.args | 4 +-
3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
Please make sure that the migration stream does not depend on the
ordering of the controllers. Re-arranging them could be a problem if we
don't have a way to migrate them afterwards.
4:11 a.m.
New subject: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] qemu: Order PCI controllers on the command line
On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 13:22 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
Please make sure that the migration stream does not depend on the
ordering of the controllers. Re-arranging them could be a problem if we
don't have a way to migrate them afterwards.
Took me long enough to get around to actually test this, but it
turns out you were completely spot-on: reordering controllers[1]
can indeed break migration.
2017-09-21T08:43:21.092559Z qemu-kvm: 800000020000001 != 800000020000002
2017-09-21T08:43:21.092588Z qemu-kvm: Failed to load spapr_pci:buid
2017-09-21T08:43:21.092596Z qemu-kvm: error while loading state for instance 0x1 of
device 'spapr_pci'
2017-09-21T08:43:21.093561Z qemu-kvm: load of migration failed: Invalid argument
Now, you already have to try pretty hard to get a guest in a state
where controllers are not showing up in the expected order, but
the same can be said for the situation described in the bug report
linked above...
All things considered, I think it's better to avoid the risk of
breaking migration, however small it might be, even though it
means leaving other failure scenarios unaddressed.
So I guess this is will be a SNACK. That's okay, I was starting
to feel a bit hungry anyway.
Thanks for bringing up the issue!
[1] PHBs at least, not sure about others.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
9:02 a.m.
New subject: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] qemu: Order PCI controllers on the command line
On 09/21/2017 05:11 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 13:22 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> Please make sure that the migration stream does not depend on the
> ordering of the controllers. Re-arranging them could be a problem if we
> don't have a way to migrate them afterwards.
Took me long enough to get around to actually test this, but it
turns out you were completely spot-on: reordering controllers[1]
can indeed break migration.
2017-09-21T08:43:21.092559Z qemu-kvm: 800000020000001 != 800000020000002
2017-09-21T08:43:21.092588Z qemu-kvm: Failed to load spapr_pci:buid
2017-09-21T08:43:21.092596Z qemu-kvm: error while loading state for instance 0x1 of
device 'spapr_pci'
2017-09-21T08:43:21.093561Z qemu-kvm: load of migration failed: Invalid argument
Now, you already have to try pretty hard to get a guest in a state
where controllers are not showing up in the expected order, but
the same can be said for the situation described in the bug report
linked above...
So here's a question - if you migrate the same "misordered" controllers
between two systems that don't have these patches, does it succeed? I'm
thinking that (because the controllers are re-ordered the next time
they're parsed) the order might be changed anyway, thus it might still fail.
If it's going to fail *without* the patch anyway, then adding the patch
is actually an *improvement* in migration behavior (since at least it
will succeed when migrating from new->new (or even new->old)).
Or my theory could be completely bogus :-)
All things considered, I think it's better to avoid the risk of
breaking migration, however small it might be, even though it
means leaving other failure scenarios unaddressed.
So I guess this is will be a SNACK. That's okay, I was starting
to feel a bit hungry anyway.
Thanks for bringing up the issue!
[1] PHBs at least, not sure about others.
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