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From: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
	"Song Gao" <gaosong@loongson.cn>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Tianrui Zhao" <zhaotianrui@loongson.cn>,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, peter.maydell@linaro.org,
	richard.henderson@linaro.org, maobibo@loongson.cn,
	lixianglai@loongso.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] target/loongarch/kvm: Fix VM recovery from disk failures
Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 09:45:40 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o79oo00b.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZjJjl2fIU1s24uFD@x1n>

Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 11:00:24AM -0300, Fabiano Rosas wrote:
>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> writes:
>> 
>> > (Cc'ing migration maintainers)
>> >
>> > On 30/4/24 03:23, Song Gao wrote:
>> >> vmstate does not save kvm_state_conter,
>> >> which can cause VM recovery from disk to fail.
>> >
>> > Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
>> > Fixes: d11681c94f ("target/loongarch: Implement kvm_arch_init_vcpu")
>> >
>> >> Signed-off-by: Song Gao <gaosong@loongson.cn>
>> >> ---
>> >>   target/loongarch/machine.c | 2 ++
>> >>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> >> 
>> >> diff --git a/target/loongarch/machine.c b/target/loongarch/machine.c
>> >> index c7029fb9b4..4cd1bf06ff 100644
>> >> --- a/target/loongarch/machine.c
>> >> +++ b/target/loongarch/machine.c
>> >> @@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ const VMStateDescription vmstate_loongarch_cpu = {
>> >>           VMSTATE_STRUCT_ARRAY(env.tlb, LoongArchCPU, LOONGARCH_TLB_MAX,
>> >>                                0, vmstate_tlb, LoongArchTLB),
>> >>   
>> >> +        VMSTATE_UINT64(kvm_state_counter, LoongArchCPU),
>> >> +
>> >>           VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST()
>> >>       },
>> >>       .subsections = (const VMStateDescription * const []) {
>> >
>> > The migration stream is versioned, so you should increase it,
>> > but this field is only relevant for KVM (it shouldn't be there
>> > in non-KVM builds). IMHO the correct migration way to fix that
>> > is (untested):
>> >
>> > -- >8 --
>> > diff --git a/target/loongarch/machine.c b/target/loongarch/machine.c
>> > index c7029fb9b4..08032c6d71 100644
>> > --- a/target/loongarch/machine.c
>> > +++ b/target/loongarch/machine.c
>> > @@ -8,8 +8,27 @@
>> >   #include "qemu/osdep.h"
>> >   #include "cpu.h"
>> >   #include "migration/cpu.h"
>> > +#include "sysemu/kvm.h"
>> >   #include "vec.h"
>> >
>> > +#ifdef CONFIG_KVM
>> > +static bool kvmcpu_needed(void *opaque)
>> > +{
>> > +    return kvm_enabled();
>> > +}
>> > +
>> > +static const VMStateDescription vmstate_kvmtimer = {
>> > +    .name = "cpu/kvmtimer",
>> > +    .version_id = 1,
>> > +    .minimum_version_id = 1,
>> > +    .needed = kvmcpu_needed,
>> > +    .fields = (const VMStateField[]) {
>> > +        VMSTATE_UINT64(kvm_state_counter, LoongArchCPU),
>> > +        VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST()
>> > +    }
>> > +};
>> > +#endif /* CONFIG_KVM */
>> > +
>> >   static const VMStateDescription vmstate_fpu_reg = {
>> >       .name = "fpu_reg",
>> >       .version_id = 1,
>> > @@ -194,6 +213,9 @@ const VMStateDescription vmstate_loongarch_cpu = {
>> >           VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST()
>> >       },
>> >       .subsections = (const VMStateDescription * const []) {
>> > +#ifdef CONFIG_KVM
>> > +        &vmstate_kvmcpu,
>> > +#endif
>> >           &vmstate_fpu,
>> >           &vmstate_lsx,
>> >           &vmstate_lasx,
>> > ---
>> 
>> LGTM, I'd just leave only the .needed function under CONFIG_KVM instead
>> of the whole subsection.
>
> But when !KVM it means there's no ".needed" and it'll still be migrated?

I expressed myself poorly, I meant put the return from .needed under
CONFIG_KVM. But that is not even necessary, kvm_enabled() is enough.

>
> IMHO it depends on whether loongarch is in the state already of trying to
> keep its ABI at all.  I think we should still try to enjoy the time when
> that ABI is not required, then we can simply add whatever fields, and let
> things break with no big deal.
>
> Note that if with CONFIG_KVM it means it can break migration between kvm
> v.s. tcg when only one qemu enabled kvm when compile.  Considering the
> patch is from the maintainer (which seems to say "breaking that is all
> fine!") I'd say the original patch looks good actually, as it allows kvm /
> tcg migrations too as a baseline.

I'm fine with this approach as well.

>
> Thanks,


  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-02 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-30  1:23 [PATCH] target/loongarch/kvm: Fix VM recovery from disk failures Song Gao
2024-04-30  8:53 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2024-04-30 14:00   ` Fabiano Rosas
2024-05-01 15:45     ` Peter Xu
2024-05-02 12:45       ` Fabiano Rosas [this message]
2024-05-07  8:12         ` gaosong
2024-05-07 15:47           ` Peter Xu
2024-05-07 15:52             ` Peter Maydell

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