Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 19/23] userfaultfd: activate syscall

[Bharata B Rao]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 01:46:52PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Bharata B Rao (bharata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 09:59:47AM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > > * Bharata B Rao (bharata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > > In fact I had successfully done postcopy migration of sPAPR guest with
> > > > this setup.
> > > 
> > > Interesting - I'd not got that far myself on power; I was hitting a problem
> > > loading htab ( htab_load() bad index 2113929216 (14848+0 entries) in htab stream (htab_shift=25) )
> > > 
> > > Did you have to make any changes to the qemu code to get that happy?
> > 
> > I should have mentioned that I tried only QEMU driven migration within
> > the same host using wp3-postcopy branch of your tree. I don't see the
> > above issue.
> > 
> > (qemu) info migrate
> > capabilities: xbzrle: off rdma-pin-all: off auto-converge: off zero-blocks: off compress: off x-postcopy-ram: on 
> > Migration status: completed
> > total time: 39432 milliseconds
> > downtime: 162 milliseconds
> > setup: 14 milliseconds
> > transferred ram: 1297209 kbytes
> > throughput: 270.72 mbps
> > remaining ram: 0 kbytes
> > total ram: 4194560 kbytes
> > duplicate: 734015 pages
> > skipped: 0 pages
> > normal: 318469 pages
> > normal bytes: 1273876 kbytes
> > dirty sync count: 4
> > 
> > I will try migration between different hosts soon and check.
> 
> I hit that on the same host; are you sure you've switched into postcopy mode;
> i.e. issued a migrate_start_postcopy before the end of migration?

Sorry I was following your discussion with Li in this thread

https://www.marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=143035620026744&w=4

and it wasn't obvious to me that anything apart from turning on the
x-postcopy-ram capability was required :(

So I do see the problem now.

At the source
-------------
Error reading data from KVM HTAB fd: Bad file descriptor
Segmentation fault

At the target
-------------
htab_load() bad index 2113929216 (14336+0 entries) in htab stream (htab_shift=25)
qemu-system-ppc64: error while loading state section id 56(spapr/htab)
qemu-system-ppc64: postcopy_ram_listen_thread: loadvm failed: -22
qemu-system-ppc64: VQ 0 size 0x100 Guest index 0x0 inconsistent with Host index 0x1f: delta 0xffe1
qemu-system-ppc64: error while loading state for instance 0x0 of device 'pci@800000020000000:00.0/virtio-net'
*** Error in `./ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64': corrupted double-linked list: 0x00000100241234a0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/power8/libc.so.6Segmentation fault

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