This makes nbd's connection_co yield during reconnects, so that
reconnect doesn't block the main thread. This is very important in
case of an unavailable nbd server host: connect() call may take a long
time, blocking the main thread (and due to reconnect, it will hang
again and again with small gaps of working time during pauses between
connection attempts).
Realization notes:
- We don't want to implement non-blocking connect() over non-blocking
socket, because getaddrinfo() doesn't have portable non-blocking
realization anyway, so let's just use a thread for both getaddrinfo()
and connect().
- We can't use qio_channel_socket_connect_async (which behaves
similarly and starts a thread to execute connect() call), as it's relying
on someone iterating main loop (g_main_loop_run() or something like
this), which is not always the case.
- We can't use thread_pool_submit_co API, as thread pool waits for all
threads to finish (but we don't want to wait for blocking reconnect
attempt on shutdown.
So, we just create the thread by hand. Some additional difficulties
are:
- We want our connect to avoid blocking drained sections and aio context
switches. To achieve this, we make it possible to "cancel" synchronous
wait for the connect (which is a coroutine yield actually), still,
the thread continues in background, and if successful, its result may be
reused on next reconnect attempt.
- We don't want to wait for reconnect on shutdown, so there is
CONNECT_THREAD_RUNNING_DETACHED thread state, which means that the block
layer is no longer interested in a result, and thread should close new
connected socket on finish and free the state.
How to reproduce the bug, fixed with this commit:
1. Create an image on node1:
qemu-img create -f qcow2 xx 100M
2. Start NBD server on node1:
qemu-nbd xx
3. Start vm with second nbd disk on node2, like this:
./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -drive \
file=/work/images/cent7.qcow2 -drive file=nbd+tcp://192.168.100.2 \
-vnc :0 -qmp stdio -m 2G -enable-kvm -vga std
4. Access the vm through vnc (or some other way?), and check that NBD
drive works:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10
- the command should succeed.
5. Now, let's trigger nbd-reconnect loop in Qemu process. For this:
5.1 Kill NBD server on node1
5.2 run "dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10" in the guest
again. The command should fail and a lot of error messages about
failing disk may appear as well.
Now NBD client driver in Qemu tries to reconnect.
Still, VM works well.
6. Make node1 unavailable on NBD port, so connect() from node2 will
last for a long time:
On node1 (Note, that 10809 is just a default NBD port):
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 10809 -j DROP
After some time the guest hangs, and you may check in gdb that Qemu
hangs in connect() call, issued from the main thread. This is the
BUG.
7. Don't forget to drop iptables rule from your node1:
sudo iptables -D INPUT -p tcp --dport 10809 -j DROP
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20200812145237.4396-1-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[eblake: minor wording and formatting tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
===========
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
.. code-block:: shell
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
* `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux>`_
* `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac>`_
* `<https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32>`_
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
.. code-block:: shell
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the CODING_STYLE.rst file.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>`_
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches>`_
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
.. code-block:: shell
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu-web.git
* `<https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/>`_
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
* `<https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish>`_
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
.. code-block:: shell
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
.. code-block:: shell
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
* `<https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/>`_
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug>`_
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
* `<mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>`_
* `<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>`_
* #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
* `<https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere>`_
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