Reported in the community forum [0]. By default, there can be large
amounts of memory left assigned to the QEMU process after backup.
Likely because of fragmentation, it's necessary to explicitly call
malloc_trim() to tell glibc that it shouldn't keep all that memory
resident for the process.
QEMU itself already does a malloc_trim() in the RCU thread, but that
code path might not be reached (or not for a long time) under usual
operation. The value of 4 MiB for the argument was also copied from
there.
Example with the following configuration:
> agent: 1
> boot: order=scsi0
> cores: 4
> cpu: x86-64-v2-AES
> ide2: none,media=cdrom
> memory: 1024
> name: backup-mem
> net0: virtio=DA:58:18:26:59:9F,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1
> numa: 0
> ostype: l26
> scsi0: rbd:base-107-disk-0/vm-106-disk-1,size=4302M
> scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
> smbios1: uuid=b2d4511e-8d01-44f1-afd6-9581b30c24a6
> sockets: 2
> startup: order=2
> virtio0: lvmthin:vm-106-disk-1,iothread=1,size=1G
> virtio1: lvmthin:vm-106-disk-2,iothread=1,size=1G
> virtio2: lvmthin:vm-106-disk-3,iothread=1,size=1G
> vmgenid: 0a1d8751-5e02-449d-977e-c0160e900231
Before the change:
> root@pve8a1 ~ # grep VmRSS /proc/$(cat /var/run/qemu-server/106.pid)/status
> VmRSS: 370948 kB
> root@pve8a1 ~ # vzdump 106 --storage pbs
> (...)
> INFO: Backup job finished successfully
> root@pve8a1 ~ # grep VmRSS /proc/$(cat /var/run/qemu-server/106.pid)/status
> VmRSS: 2114964 kB
After the change:
> root@pve8a1 ~ # grep VmRSS /proc/$(cat /var/run/qemu-server/106.pid)/status
> VmRSS: 398788 kB
> root@pve8a1 ~ # vzdump 106 --storage pbs
> (...)
> INFO: Backup job finished successfully
> root@pve8a1 ~ # grep VmRSS /proc/$(cat /var/run/qemu-server/106.pid)/status
> VmRSS: 424356 kB
[0]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/131339/
Co-diagnosed-by: Friedrich Weber <f.weber@proxmox.com>
Co-diagnosed-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>
Add format attributes to functions that take printf-like arguments. This
provides additional compile-time checking that the correct parameters
are passed to the functions.
This fixes compiler warnings generated by the -Wsuggest-attribute=format
flag.
Signed-off-by: Filip Schauer <f.schauer@proxmox.com>
Each pause+resume operation (which is also done as part of taking a VM
snapshot) would increase the number of open file descriptors by the
number of vhost devices (e.g. network devices by default). This could
lead to crashes during backup and surely other issues once the system
limit (default 1024) was reached [0].
[0]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/131603/
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Not difficult to run into, just have a drive with iothread, take a PBS
backup and then take a snapshot or hibernate. Resuming will fail with
> qemu: qemu_mutex_unlock_impl: Operation not permitted
because of not acquiring the correct AioContext first.
Migration is not affected, because it runs in coroutine context.
Reported in the community forum:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/129899/
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
The QAPI change for QEMU 8.0 dropped redundant has_foo parameters, but
in the blockdev_mirror_common() function (which is not part of the
QAPI itself but called from there) the argument pair was has_bitmap
and bitmap_name rather than has_bitmap and bitmap.
Reported-by: Aaron Lauterer <a.lauterer@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
The previous version was picked from the mailing list and still had
an object_dynamic_cast call in a hot path, which is avoided with the
version that landed in git.
Also adds a few more exceptions for devices that need reentrancy.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
we ship it via pve-edk2-firmware anyway and it only results in bigger
source tar balls and lintian yelling at us due to edk2 not being the
simplest repo to ensure DFSG compat.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
drop autotools-dev, texi2html and texinfo build dependencies, they
are not used and have no effect
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
where there is no good reason to keep them separate. It's a pain
during rebase if there are multiple patches changing the same code
over and over again. This was especially bad for the backup-related
patches. If the history of patches really is needed, it can be
extracted via git. Additionally, compilation with partial application
of patches was broken since a long time, because one of the master key
changes became part of an earlier patch during a past rebase.
If only the same files were changed by a subsequent patch and the
changes felt to belong together (obvious for later bug fixes, but also
done for features e.g. adding master key support for PBS), the patches
were squashed together.
The PBS namespace support patch was split into the individual parts
it changes, i.e. PBS block driver, pbs-restore binary and QMP backup
infrastructure, and squashed into the respective patches.
No code change is intended, git diff in the submodule should not show
any difference between applying all patches before this commit and
applying all patches after this commit.
The query-proxmox-support QMP function has been left as part of the
"PVE-Backup: Proxmox backup patches for QEMU" patch, because it's
currently only used there. If it ever is used elsewhere too, it can
be split out from there.
The recent alloc-track and BQL-related savevm-async changes have been
left separate for now, because it's not 100% clear they are the best
approach yet. This depends on what upstream decides about the BQL
stuff and whether and what kind of issues with the changes pop up.
The qemu-img dd snapshot patch has been re-ordered to after the other
qemu-img dd patches.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Namely, pvebackup_co_prepare() needs to call bdrv_co_open() rather
than bdrv_open(), because it is a coroutine itself.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Changes to other patches are all just metadata/context changes except
for pvebackup_co_prepare() needing to call bdrv_co_unref() rather than
bdrv_unref(), because it is a coroutine itself. This is documented in
d6ee2e324e ("block-coroutine-wrapper: Introduce no_co_wrapper"). The
change is necessary, because one of the stable fixes converts
bdrv_unref and blk_unref into no_co_wrappers (in preparation for a
second patch to fix a hang with the block resize QMP command).
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Many changes were necessary this time around:
* QAPI was changed to avoid redundant has_* variables, see commit
44ea9d9be3 ("qapi: Start to elide redundant has_FOO in generated C")
for details. This affected many QMP commands added by Proxmox too.
* Pending querying for migration got split into two functions, one to
estimate, one for exact value, see commit c8df4a7aef ("migration:
Split save_live_pending() into state_pending_*") for details. Relevant
for savevm-async and PBS dirty bitmap.
* Some block (driver) functions got converted to coroutines, so the
Proxmox block drivers needed to be adapted.
* Alloc track auto-detaching during PBS live restore got broken by
AioContext-related changes resulting in a deadlock. The current, hacky
method was replaced by a simpler one. Stefan apparently ran into a
problem with that when he wrote the driver, but there were
improvements in the stream job code since then and I didn't manage to
reproduce the issue. It's a separate patch "alloc-track: fix deadlock
during drop" for now, you can find the details there.
* Async snapshot-related changes:
- The pending querying got adapted to the above-mentioned split and
a patch is added to optimize it/make it more similar to what
upstream code does.
- Added initialization of the compression counters (for
future-proofing).
- It's necessary the hold the BQL (big QEMU lock = iothread mutex)
during the setup phase, because block layer functions are used there
and not doing so leads to racy, hard-to-debug crashes or hangs. It's
necessary to change some upstream code too for this, a version of
the patch "migration: for snapshots, hold the BQL during setup
callbacks" is intended to be upstreamed.
- Need to take the bdrv graph read lock before flushing.
* hmp_info_balloon was moved to a different file.
* Needed to include a new headers from time to time to still get the
correct functions.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
virtiofsd is no longer part of QEMU 8.0. It got replaced by a separate
implementation written in Rust, which will be its own package.
See QEMU commit 0aaf44776e ("Merge tag 'pull-virtiofs-20230216b' of
https://gitlab.com/dagrh/qemu into staging").
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
this way we save a bit of space and should make build also slightly
faster, otherwise nothing should change.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
It causes problems when done as part of the clean target when building
the dsc with the following error due to the additional files:
dpkg-source: error: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Copied from Debian's QEMU package's d/rules. Otherwise, ninja will end
up using only a single job (in Debian Bookworm/Proxmox VE 8).
Suggested-by: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
When turning off the "KVM hardware virtualization" checkbox in Proxmox
VE, the TCG accelerator is used, so these fixes are relevant then.
The first patch is included to allow cherry-picking the others without
changes.
Reported-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Required for the debian/edk2-vars-generator.py script in the
pve-edk2-firmware repository when building the edk2-stable202302
release. Without this patch, the QEMU process spawned by the script
would hang indefinietly.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
The patch 0008-memory-prevent-dma-reentracy-issues.patch introduced a
regression for the LSI SCSI controller leading to boot failures [0],
because, in its current form, it relies on reentrancy for a particular
ram_io region.
[0]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/123843
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
The patches were selected from the recent "Patch Round-up for stable
7.2.1" [0]. Those that should be relevant for our supported use-cases
(and the upcoming nvme use-case) were picked. Most of the patches
added now have not been submitted to qemu-stable before.
The follow-up for the virtio-rng-pci migration fix will break
migration between versions with the fix and without the fix when a
virtio-pci-rng(-non)-transitional device is used. Luckily Proxmox VE
only uses the virtio-pci-rng device, and this was fixed by
0006-virtio-rng-pci-fix-migration-compat-for-vectors.patch which was
applied before any public version of Proxmox VE's QEMU 7.2 package was
released.
[0]: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-stable/2023-03/msg00010.html
[1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2162569
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
The patch was incomplete and (re-)introduced an issue with a potential
failing assertion upon cancelation of the DMA request.
There is a patch on qemu-devel now[0], and it's the same as this one
code-wise (except for comments). But the discussion is still ongoing.
While there shouldn't be a real issue with the patch, there might be
better approaches. The plan is to use this as a stop-gap for now and
pick up the proper solution once it's ready.
[0]: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2023-03/msg03325.html
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
In particular, the deadlock can occur, together with unlucky timing
between the QEMU threads, when the guest is issuing trim requests
during the start of a backup operation.
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
[ T: resolve trivial merge conflict in series file ]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
