This version includes both the AioContext lock and the block graph
lock, so there might be some deadlocks lurking. It's not possible to
disable the block graph lock like was done in QEMU 8.1, because there
are no changes like the function bdrv_schedule_unref() that require
it. QEMU 9.0 will finally get rid of the AioContext locking.
During live-restore with a VirtIO SCSI drive with iothread there is a
known racy deadlock related to the AioContext lock. Not new [1], but
not sure if more likely now. Should be fixed in QEMU 9.0.
The block graph lock comes with annotations that can be checked by
clang's TSA. This required changes to the block drivers, i.e.
alloc-track, pbs, zeroinit as well as taking the appropriate locks
in pve-backup, savevm-async, vma-reader.
Local variable shadowing is prohibited via a compiler flag now,
required slight adaptation in vma.c.
Major changes only affect alloc-track:
* It is not possible to call a generated co-wrapper like
bdrv_get_info() while holding the block graph lock exclusively [0],
which does happen during initialization of alloc-track when the
backing hd is set and the refresh_limits driver callback is invoked.
The bdrv_get_info() call to get the cluster size is moved to
directly after opening the file child in track_open().
The important thing is that at least the request alignment for the
write target is used, because then the RMW cycle in bdrv_pwritev
will gather enough data from the backing file. Partial cluster
allocations in the target are not a fundamental issue, because the
driver returns its allocation status based on the bitmap, so any
other data that maps to the same cluster will still be copied later
by a stream job (or during writes to that cluster).
* Replacing the node cannot be done in the
track_co_change_backing_file() callback, because it is a coroutine
and cannot hold the block graph lock exclusively. So it is moved to
the stream job itself with the auto-remove option not having an
effect anymore (qemu-server would always set it anyways).
In the future, there could either be a special option for the stream
job, or maybe the upcoming blockdev-replace QMP command can be used.
Replacing the backing child is actually already done in the stream
job, so no need to do it in the track_co_change_backing_file()
callback. It also cannot be called from a coroutine. Looking at the
implementation in the qcow2 driver, it doesn't seem to be intended
to change the backing child itself, just update driver-internal
state.
Other changes:
* alloc-track: Error out early when used without auto-remove. Since
replacing the node now happens in the stream job, where the option
cannot be read from (it's internal to the driver), it will always be
treated as 'on'. Makes sure to have users beside qemu-server notice
the change (should they even exist). The option can be fully dropped
in the future while adding a version guard in qemu-server.
* alloc-track: Avoid seemingly superfluous child permission update.
Doesn't seem necessary nowadays (maybe after commit "alloc-track:
fix deadlock during drop" where the dropping is not rescheduled and
delayed anymore or some upstream change). Replacing the block node
will already update the permissions of the new node (which was the
file child before). Should there really be some issue, instead of
having a drop state, this could also be just based off the fact
whether there is still a backing child.
Dumping the cumulative (shared) permissions for the BDS with a debug
print yields the same values after this patch and with QEMU 8.1,
namely 3 and 5.
* PBS block driver: compile unconditionally. Proxmox VE always needs
it and something in the build process changed to make it not enabled
by default. Probably would need to move the build option to meson
otherwise.
* backup: job unreferencing during cleanup needs to happen outside of
coroutine, so it was moved to before invoking the clean
* mirror: Cherry-pick stable fix to avoid potential deadlock.
* savevm-async: migrate_init now can fail, so propagate potential
error.
* savevm-async: compression counters are not accessible outside
migration/ram-compress now, so drop code that prophylactically set
it to zero.
[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/220be383-3b0d-4938-b584-69ad214e5d5d@proxmox.com/
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/e13b488e-bf13-44f2-acca-e724d14f43fd@proxmox.com/
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Bigger notable changes:
* Commit 1a30b0f5d7 ("block: .bdrv_open is non-coroutine and
unlocked") broke the PVE backup patches, in particular setting up
the backup dump block driver, because bdrv_new_open_driver() cannot
be called from a coroutine. To fix it, bdrv_co_open() is used
instead, and while it's a much more involved function, the result
should be essentially the same. The only difference I noticed is
that the BDRV_O_ALLOW_RDWR flag is also set in the resulting bds
(block driver state), but that shouldn't hurt.
Smaller notable changes:
* aio_set_fd_handler() dropped its 'is_external' parameter stating
that all callers now pass false in 60f782b6b7 ("aio: remove
aio_disable_external() API"). The calls in the PVE patches also
passed false, so just drop the parameter too.
* global_state_store() does not have a return value anymore, so the
user in the PVE savevm-async patch was adapted. For context, see
c33f1829f8 ("migration: never fail in global_state_store()").
* Renames affecting the PVE savevm-async patch:
migrate_use_block() -> migrate_block() and ram_counters -> mig_stats
9d4b1e5f22 ("migration: Move migrate_use_block() to options.c")
aff3f6606d ("migration: Rename ram_counters to mig_stats")
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@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>
