Re: [PULL 09/14] qmp: Move dispatcher to a coroutine

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:57 PM Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net> wrote:
>
> On 20-10-12 16:02:34, Alex Bennée wrote:
> >
> > Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> > > Am 12.10.2020 um 13:53 hat Philippe Mathieu-Daudé geschrieben:
> > >> On 10/12/20 1:25 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > >> > Am 12.10.2020 um 12:47 hat Alex Bennée geschrieben:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> writes:
> > >> > >
> > >> > > > From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > This moves the QMP dispatcher to a coroutine and runs all QMP 
> > >> > > > command
> > >> > > > handlers that declare 'coroutine': true in coroutine context so 
> > >> > > > they
> > >> > > > can avoid blocking the main loop while doing I/O or waiting for 
> > >> > > > other
> > >> > > > events.
> > >> > >
> > >> > > This subtly changes the replay behaviour leading to a hang in:
> > >> > >
> > >> > >    10:55:18 [alex.bennee@hackbox2:~/l/q/b/bisect] 
> > >> > > (625581c2…)|✚1(+1/-1) + ./tests/venv/bin/avocado run 
> > >> > > tests/acceptance/replay_kernel.py:ReplayKernel.test_arm_virt
> > >> > >    Fetching asset from 
> > >> > > tests/acceptance/replay_kernel.py:ReplayKernel.test_arm_virt
> > >> > >    JOB ID     : ec11fd2544f06e6c0d421f16afa757b49f7ed734
> > >> > >    JOB LOG    : 
> > >> > > /home/alex.bennee/avocado/job-results/job-2020-10-12T11.40-ec11fd2/job.log
> > >> > >     (1/1) 
> > >> > > tests/acceptance/replay_kernel.py:ReplayKernel.test_arm_virt: ERROR: 
> > >> > > Could not perform graceful shutdown (26.27 s)
> > >> > >    RESULTS    : PASS 0 | ERROR 1 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | 
> > >> > > INTERRUPT 0 | CANCEL 0
> > >> > >    JOB TIME   : 27.77 s
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Looking at the log:
> > >> > >
> > >> > >    2020-10-12 11:40:31,426 __init__         L0085 DEBUG| [    
> > >> > > 3.887411] rtc-pl031 9010000.pl031: setting system clock to 
> > >> > > 2020-10-12 10:40:31 UTC (1602499231)
> > >> > >    2020-10-12 11:40:31,428 __init__         L0085 DEBUG| [    
> > >> > > 3.887431] sr_init: No PMIC hook to init smartreflex
> > >> > >    2020-10-12 11:40:31,447 __init__         L0085 DEBUG| [    
> > >> > > 3.897193] uart-pl011 9000000.pl011: no DMA platform data
> > >> > >    2020-10-12 11:40:31,460 __init__         L0085 DEBUG| [    
> > >> > > 3.897242] md: Waiting for all devices to be available before 
> > >> > > autodetect
> > >> > >    2020-10-12 11:40:31,462 __init__         L0085 DEBUG| [    
> > >> > > 3.897259] md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect
> > >> > >    2020-10-12 11:40:31,475 __init__         L0085 DEBUG| [    
> > >> > > 3.897819] md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> > >> > >    2020-10-12 11:40:31,476 __init__         L0085 DEBUG| [    
> > >> > > 3.897832] md: autorun ...
> > >> > >    2020-10-12 11:40:31,477 __init__         L0085 DEBUG| [    
> > >> > > 3.897842] md: ... autorun DONE.
> > >> > >    2020-10-12 11:40:31,483 __init__         L0085 DEBUG| [    
> > >> > > 3.897962] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or 
> > >> > > unknown-block(0,0): error -6
> > >> > >    2020-10-12 11:40:31,483 qmp              L0245 DEBUG| >>> 
> > >> > > {'execute': 'quit'}
> > >> > >    2020-10-12 11:40:31,495 qmp              L0145 DEBUG| <<< 
> > >> > > {'timestamp': {'seconds': 1602499231, 'microseconds': 493379}, 
> > >> > > 'event': 'SHUTDOWN', 'data': {'guest': True, 'reason': 
> > >> > > 'guest-reset'}}
> > >> > >    2020-10-12 11:40:31,733 machine          L0325 WARNI| qemu 
> > >> > > received signal 6; command: "./qemu-system-arm -display none -vga 
> > >> > > none -chardev 
> > >> > > socket,id=mon,path=/var/tmp/tmpzls53khe/qemu-8487-monitor.sock -mon 
> > >> > > chardev=mon,mode=control -machine virt -chardev 
> > >> > > socket,id=console,path=/var/tmp/tmpzls53khe/qemu-8487-console.sock,server,nowait
> > >> > >  -serial chardev:console -icount 
> > >> > > shift=1,rr=record,rrfile=/var/tmp/avocado_n00stdrf/avocado_job_aw60qdul/1-tests_acceptance_replay_kernel.py_ReplayKernel.test_arm_virt/replay.bin
> > >> > >  -kernel 
> > >> > > /home/alex.bennee/avocado/data/cache/by_location/62750ce9e069e69e6a7ff04ff54c382ee660b92a/vmlinuz
> > >> > >  -append printk.time=1 panic=-1 console=ttyAMA0 -net none -no-reboot"
> > >> >
> > >> > This looks like a crash (SIGABRT) rather than a hang. Do you have a
> > >> > stack trace for the crashed process?
> > >>
> > >> No crash, exit(0):
> > >
> > > Why does the log say "qemu received signal 6" then?
> > >
> > >> VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6
> > >
> > > Alex has this error in the logs before this commit, so I assume this is
> > > expected. All of the following is then probably expected, too, because
> > > it follows directly from this error:
> > >
> > >> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
> > >> partitions:
> > >> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> > >> unknown-block(0,0)
> > >> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.18.16-300.fc29.armv7hl #1
> > >> Hardware name: Generic DT based system
> > >> [<c0313f7c>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c030dc64>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24)
> > >> [<c030dc64>] (show_stack) from [<c0b50ec4>] (dump_stack+0x88/0xa8)
> > >> [<c0b50ec4>] (dump_stack) from [<c03592f8>] (panic+0xd4/0x26c)
> > >> [<c03592f8>] (panic) from [<c110183c>] (mount_block_root+0x250/0x2ec)
> > >> [<c110183c>] (mount_block_root) from [<c1101950>] (mount_root+0x78/0x90)
> > >> [<c1101950>] (mount_root) from [<c1101ac4>] 
> > >> (prepare_namespace+0x15c/0x19c)
> > >> [<c1101ac4>] (prepare_namespace) from [<c11012e8>]
> > >> (kernel_init_freeable+0x2c0/0x370)
> > >> [<c11012e8>] (kernel_init_freeable) from [<c0b63914>]
> > >> (kernel_init+0x18/0x128)
> > >> [<c0b63914>] (kernel_init) from [<c03010e8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c)
> > >> Exception stack(0xc790bfb0 to 0xc790bff8)
> > >> bfa0:                                     00000000 00000000 00000000
> > >> 00000000
> > >> bfc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> > >> 00000000
> > >> bfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000
> > >>
> > >> -> PSCI call
> > >>    -> QEMU_PSCI_0_2_FN_SYSTEM_RESET
> > >>       -> SHUTDOWN_CAUSE_GUEST_RESET
> > >>          -> exit(0)
> >
> > Yes - the test is recording the kernel up until the point it gives up.
> >
> > > Hm... So you're saying that the test sends a 'quit' QMP command, but
> > > before it could be processed, the guest causes QEMU to exit, so the test
> > > will never receive a reply to its request?
> > >
> > > If commit 9ce44e2ce2 changes anything about this, it seems to me that it
> > > would be that more QMP commands are processed during monitor_cleanup()
> > > because it doesn't just delete the dispatcher BH, but waits until it's
> > > not busy any more.
> > >
> > > Looking at this code again, however, the order in monitor_cleanup() is
> > > probably wrong. We should first shut down the dispatcher (which may
> > > still be using Monitor objects) and then destroy the monitors. This
> > > could possibly explain a crash, but probably not wrong results with a
> > > successful shutdown.
> >
> > I suspect this is a race between QEMU shutting down because the guest
> > shut it down and the acceptance test trying to shut things down via QMP.
> > I think the proper fix is either to:
>
> I'm not sure my problem is the same, but I do have the same symptom.
>
> >
> >   - s/panic=-1/panic=0/ in the command line (and probably drop --no-reboot)
> >
> > which would let the acceptance test cleanly shutdown via QMP.
>
> I tried this, which works well on some of the platforms which were failing.
> -    KERNEL_COMMON_COMMAND_LINE = 'printk.time=1 panic=-1 '
> +    KERNEL_COMMON_COMMAND_LINE = 'printk.time=1 panic=-0 '
>
>      def run_vm(self, kernel_path, kernel_command_line, console_pattern,
>                 record, shift, args, replay_path):
> @@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ class ReplayKernel(LinuxKernelTest):
>                      (shift, mode, replay_path),
>                      '-kernel', kernel_path,
>                      '-append', kernel_command_line,
> -                    '-net', 'none',
> -                    '-no-reboot')
> +                    '-net', 'none'
> +                    )
>          if args:
>              vm.add_args(*args)
>          vm.launch()
> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ class ReplayKernel(LinuxKernelTest):
>          kernel_command_line = (self.KERNEL_COMMON_COMMAND_LINE +
>                                 'console=ttyS0,115200 '
>                                 'usbcore.nousb '
> -                               'panic=-1 noreboot')
> +                               'panic=-0')
>          console_pattern = 'Boot successful.'
>
> >
> >   - modify the test to declare that qemu will shutdown itself and
> >     therefor no "quit" needs to be sent
> >
> > WDYT?

Can you send it as a formal patch please? :)

> >
> > --
> > Alex Bennée
> >
>