[libvirt-users] virsh not detecting hugepage mount; disabled by config?

[Manuel Ullmann]

Hi,

I’m struggling with virsh not detecting my hugepage mount.

I have the following kernel command line:
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.8.13-gentoo root=/dev/mapper/gensd-gentoo ro quiet
splash intel_iommu=on video=efifb:off,vesafb:off,simplefb:off
splash=verbose,theme:livedvd-aurora kvm.ignore_msrs=1
transparent_hugepage=never hugepages=3072 softlevel=qemuvm

My startup script outputs the following:
hugetlbfs /var/lib/hugetlbfs hugetlbfs
rw,relatime,pagesize=2097152,uid=77,gid=77,mode=0770 0 0
[2016.12.13 22:22:50 virsh 2808] ERROR Failed to start domain win10
[2016.12.13 22:22:50 virsh 2808] ERROR internal error: hugetlbfs
filesystem is not mounted or disabled by administrator config
virsh was unsuccessful

So hugetlbfs is definitively mounted, but virsh does either not detect
it or some magical option, that I’ve not found in a day searching for
it, disables it (the documentation could explain that better). Since the
Ubuntu guys refer to the KVM_HUGEPAGES environment, I tried adding it to
start-stop-daemon environment, but it seems non-relevant. 77 is the qemu
user id, but I’m quite sure the permission issues were excluded (tried
root permissions as well). Besides I had permission errors occasionally
occasionally and don’t have them anymore. If you could provide a hint to
the magical administrator configuration option, that would be helpful.
Tried hugeadm as well, pointing the config to the correct destination.

Thanks in advance,
Manuel

PS:
The virsh script reads like this:
#!/bin/sh
cmdline="$(cat /proc/cmdline)"
if [[ "${cmdline##* }" == "softlevel=qemuvm" ]]; then
    mount -o rw,relatime,pagesize=2097152,uid=77,gid=77,mode=0770 -t
hugetlbfs hugetlbfs /var/lib/hugetlbfs
    sysctl kernel.shmmax=6442450944
    cat /proc/mounts | grep hugetlb >> /var/log/virsh.log
    sed -i -e '/^hugetlb/{s/^/\#/}' /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
    counter=0
    while [ "${counter}" -lt 10 && ! -S /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock ]; do
    sleep 1
    counter=$(( ++counter ))
    done
    if [ $counter -gt 9 ]; then
    echo "libvirtd socket generation timed out" >> /var/log/virsh.log
    fi
    if pidof libvirtd &>/dev/null; then
    LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/virsh -l /var/log/virsh.log start win10
    if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
        echo "virsh was unsuccessful" >> /var/log/virsh.log
        reboot
    fi
    else
    echo "libvirtd is not started" >> /var/log/virsh.log
    reboot
    fi
fi

reboot is more convenient, since this is a vfio-igd passthrough vm.