Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 3/4] spapr: disable hotplugging without OS

[David Gibson]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 01:18:11PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> If the OS is not started, QEMU sends an event to the OS
> that is lost and cannot be recovered. An unplug is not
> able to restore QEMU in a coherent state.
> So, while the OS is not started, disable CPU and memory hotplug.
> We use option vector 6 to know if the OS is started
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>

Urgh.. I'm not terribly confident that this is really correct.  As
discussed on the previous patch, you're essentially using OV6 as a
flag that CAS is complete.

But while it undoubtedly makes the race window much smaller, I don't
see that there's any guarantee the guest OS will really be able to
handle hotplug events immediately after CAS.

In particular if the CAS process completes partially but then needs to
trigger a reboot, I think that would end up setting the ov6 variable,
but the OS would definitely not be in a state to accept events.

Mike, I really think we need some input from someone familiar with how
these hotplug events are supposed to work.  What do we need to do to
handle lost or stale events, such as those delivered when an OS is not
booted.

> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> index eceb4cc..2e9320d 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> @@ -2625,6 +2625,7 @@ out:
>  static void spapr_memory_pre_plug(HotplugHandler *hotplug_dev, DeviceState 
> *dev,
>                                  Error **errp)
>  {
> +    sPAPRMachineState *ms = SPAPR_MACHINE(hotplug_dev);
>      PCDIMMDevice *dimm = PC_DIMM(dev);
>      PCDIMMDeviceClass *ddc = PC_DIMM_GET_CLASS(dimm);
>      MemoryRegion *mr = ddc->get_memory_region(dimm);
> @@ -2645,6 +2646,13 @@ static void spapr_memory_pre_plug(HotplugHandler 
> *hotplug_dev, DeviceState *dev,
>          goto out;
>      }
>  
> +    if (dev->hotplugged) {
> +        if (!ms->os_name) {
> +            error_setg(&local_err, "Memory hotplug not supported without 
> OS");
> +            goto out;
> +        }
> +    }
> +
>  out:
>      error_propagate(errp, local_err);
>  }
> @@ -2874,6 +2882,7 @@ static void spapr_core_pre_plug(HotplugHandler 
> *hotplug_dev, DeviceState *dev,
>                                  Error **errp)
>  {
>      MachineState *machine = MACHINE(OBJECT(hotplug_dev));
> +    sPAPRMachineState *ms = SPAPR_MACHINE(machine);
>      MachineClass *mc = MACHINE_GET_CLASS(hotplug_dev);
>      Error *local_err = NULL;
>      CPUCore *cc = CPU_CORE(dev);
> @@ -2884,9 +2893,16 @@ static void spapr_core_pre_plug(HotplugHandler 
> *hotplug_dev, DeviceState *dev,
>      int node_id;
>      int index;
>  
> -    if (dev->hotplugged && !mc->has_hotpluggable_cpus) {
> -        error_setg(&local_err, "CPU hotplug not supported for this machine");
> -        goto out;
> +    if (dev->hotplugged) {
> +        if (!mc->has_hotpluggable_cpus) {
> +            error_setg(&local_err,
> +                       "CPU hotplug not supported for this machine");
> +            goto out;
> +        }
> +        if (!ms->os_name) {
> +            error_setg(&local_err, "CPU hotplug not supported without OS");
> +            goto out;
> +        }
>      }
>  
>      if (strcmp(base_core_type, type)) {

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