[libvirt PATCH 3/3] qemu: Make qemuMigrationSrcCancel optionally synchronous

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Thu Sep 1 15:18:55 UTC 2022


On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 16:51:34 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 14:47:41 +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > We have always considered "migrate_cancel" QMP command to return after
> > successfully cancelling the migration. But this is no longer true (to be
> > honest I'm not sure it ever was) as it just changes the migration state
> > to "cancelling". In most cases the migration is canceled pretty quickly
> > and we don't really notice anything, but sometimes it takes so long we
> > even get to clearing migration capabilities before the migration is
> > actually canceled, which fails as capabilities can only be changed when
> > no migration is running. So to avoid this issue, we can wait for the
> > migration to be really canceled after sending migrate_cancel. The only
> > place where we don't need synchronous behavior is when we're cancelling
> > migration on user's request while it is actively watched by another
> > thread.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2114866
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c    |  2 +-
> >  src/qemu/qemu_migration.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  src/qemu/qemu_migration.h |  3 ++-
> >  src/qemu/qemu_process.c   |  2 +-
> >  4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> [...]
> 
> >  int
> >  qemuMigrationSrcCancel(virDomainObj *vm,
> > -                       virDomainAsyncJob asyncJob)
> > +                       virDomainAsyncJob asyncJob,
> > +                       bool wait)
> >  {
> >      qemuDomainObjPrivate *priv = vm->privateData;
> >  
> > @@ -4625,6 +4653,15 @@ qemuMigrationSrcCancel(virDomainObj *vm,
> >      qemuMonitorMigrateCancel(priv->mon);
> >      qemuDomainObjExitMonitor(vm);
> >  
> > +    if (virDomainObjIsActive(vm) && wait) {
> 
> Is the call to virDomainObjIsActive() necessary here? IIUC the domain
> shutdown code is always executed in a way to make sure that waiting
> threads are always woken.
> 
> 
> > +        VIR_DEBUG("Waiting for migration to be canceled");
> > +
> > +        while (!qemuMigrationSrcIsCanceled(vm)) {
> > +            if (qemuDomainObjWait(vm) < 0)
> 
> So here if the VM would crash before we wait we'd report success and if
> it crashed during our wait we'll report failure, which seems weird too.

Oh right, qemuDomainObjWait already checks for virDomainObjIsActive so
we don't have to do it explicitly here. Just

        if (wait) {
            ...
        }

is enough.

Jirka


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