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Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken? |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:21:10 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
Hi Andrea,
I'm wondering if this bug is the opposite way around from what I originally
thought it was - I don't think the problem is 0 pages on the destination; I
think
it's more subtle.
I added some debug to print the source VMs memory and also
the byte in the destination's 1st page (this is in the nest):
nhp_range: block: pc.ram @ 0x7fc59a800000
Destination 1st byte: e8,df <stop> df
OK, so that tells us that the destination is running OK, and that it
stops running when we tell it to.
Memory content inconsistency at f79000 first_byte = df last_byte = de current =
9 hit_edge = 1 src_byte = 9
'src_byte' is saying that the source VM had the byte 9 in that page (we've
still got the source VMs memory - it's
paused at this point in the test)
so adding the start of pc.ram we get that being a host address of
0x7FC59B779000 and in the logs I see:
postcopy_place_page: 0x55ba64503f7d->0x7fc59b779000 copy=4096 1stbyte=9/9
OK, so that shows that when the destination received the page it was also '9'
and after the uffdio_copy
it read as 9 - so the page made it into RAM; it wasn't 0.
But that also means, that page hasn't changed *after* migration; why not?
We can see that the other pages are changing (that Destination 1st byte
line shows the 1st byte of the test memory changed) - so the incrementer
loop has apparently incremented every byte of the test memory multiple
times - except these pages are still stuck at the '9' it got when we
placed the page into it atomically.
I've been unable to trigger this bug in a standalone test case that ran
without kvm.
Is it possible that the guest KVM CPU isn't noticing some change to
the mapping?
Dave
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Kirill A. Shutemov, 2016/04/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2016/04/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Li, Liang Z, 2016/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2016/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Li, Liang Z, 2016/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2016/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Li, Liang Z, 2016/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2016/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2016/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2016/04/20
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Andrea Arcangeli, 2016/04/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Li, Liang Z, 2016/04/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2016/04/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Andrea Arcangeli, 2016/04/15
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] post-copy is broken?, Li, Liang Z, 2016/04/18