We hit intermit CI issue on failing at migration-test over the unit test
preempt/plain:
qemu-system-x86_64: Unable to read from socket: Connection reset by peer
Memory content inconsistency at 5b43000 first_byte = bd last_byte = bc current = 4f hit_edge = 1
**
ERROR:../tests/qtest/migration-test.c:300:check_guests_ram: assertion failed: (bad == 0)
(test program exited with status code -6)
Fabiano debugged into it and found that the preempt thread can quit even
without receiving all the pages, which can cause guest not receiving all
the pages and corrupt the guest memory.
To make sure preempt thread finished receiving all the pages, we can rely
on the page_requested_count being zero because preempt channel will only
receive requested page faults. Note, not all the faulted pages are required
to be sent via the preempt channel/thread; imagine the case when a
requested page is just queued into the background main channel for
migration, the src qemu will just still send it via the background channel.
Here instead of spinning over reading the count, we add a condvar so the
main thread can wait on it if that unusual case happened, without burning
the cpu for no good reason, even if the duration is short; so even if we
spin in this rare case is probably fine. It's just better to not do so.
The condvar is only used when that special case is triggered. Some memory
ordering trick is needed to guarantee it from happening (against the
preempt thread status field), so the main thread will always get a kick
when that triggers correctly.
Closes: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1886
Debugged-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20230918172822.19052-2-farosas@suse.de>
(cherry picked from commit cf02f29e1e)
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
0b246f8e9e