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qemu crash in coroutine bdrv_co_do_rw

Message ID 54FEC889.2000408@redhat.com
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Paolo Bonzini March 10, 2015, 10:33 a.m. UTC
On 10/03/2015 08:54, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Am 09.03.2015 um 21:37 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
>> Am 06.03.2015 um 18:23 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:29:57AM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>> is this some know issue? Under heavy load with lots of dataplane devices I sometimes get a segfault in the bdrc_co_do_rw routine:
>>>>
>>>> #0  bdrv_co_do_rw (opaque=0x0) at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/block.c:4791
>>>> 4791	    if (!acb->is_write) {
>>>> (gdb) bt
>>>> #0  bdrv_co_do_rw (opaque=0x0) at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/block.c:4791
>>>> #1  0x00000000801aeb78 in coroutine_trampoline (i0=<optimized out>, i1=-725099072) at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/coroutine-ucontext.c:80
>>>> #2  0x000003fffbe1cca2 in __makecontext_ret () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>>>> Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
>>>> (gdb) up
>>>> #1  0x00000000801aeb78 in coroutine_trampoline (i0=<optimized out>, i1=-725099072) at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/coroutine-ucontext.c:80
>>>> 80	        co->entry(co->entry_arg);
>>>> (gdb) print *co
>>>> $1 = {entry = 0x801a3c28 <bdrv_co_do_rw>, entry_arg = 0x0, caller = 0x3ffe2fff788, pool_next = {sle_next = 0x3ffd2287990}, co_queue_wakeup = {tqh_first = 0x0, 
>>>>     tqh_last = 0x3ffd4c7dde0}, co_queue_next = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0x0}}
>>>>
>>>> As you can see enty_arg is 0, causing the problem. Do you have any quick idea before I start debugging?
>>>
>>> No, I haven't seen this bug before.  Are you running qemu.git/master?
>>>
>>> Have you tried disabling the coroutine pool (freelist)?
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
>>
>> I was able to increase the likelyhood of hitting this (more vCPUs, less guests).
>>
>> bisect thinks that this makes this shaky:
>>
>> 4d68e86bb10159099da0798f74e7512955f15eec is the first bad commit
>> commit 4d68e86bb10159099da0798f74e7512955f15eec
>> Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>> Date:   Tue Dec 2 12:05:48 2014 +0100
>>
>>     coroutine: rewrite pool to avoid mutex
>>
>>
>> Christian
>>
> 
> Yes, reverting these 3 makes the problem go away during an overnight run.

Let's see if a quick hack helps isolate the problem (either in the
lockless magic or in the algorithm itself):


Thanks,

Paolo

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Christian Borntraeger March 10, 2015, 11:27 a.m. UTC | #1
Am 10.03.2015 um 11:33 schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> 
> 
> On 10/03/2015 08:54, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> Am 09.03.2015 um 21:37 schrieb Christian Borntraeger:
>>> Am 06.03.2015 um 18:23 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
>>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:29:57AM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>>> is this some know issue? Under heavy load with lots of dataplane devices I sometimes get a segfault in the bdrc_co_do_rw routine:
>>>>>
>>>>> #0  bdrv_co_do_rw (opaque=0x0) at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/block.c:4791
>>>>> 4791	    if (!acb->is_write) {
>>>>> (gdb) bt
>>>>> #0  bdrv_co_do_rw (opaque=0x0) at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/block.c:4791
>>>>> #1  0x00000000801aeb78 in coroutine_trampoline (i0=<optimized out>, i1=-725099072) at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/coroutine-ucontext.c:80
>>>>> #2  0x000003fffbe1cca2 in __makecontext_ret () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>>>>> Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
>>>>> (gdb) up
>>>>> #1  0x00000000801aeb78 in coroutine_trampoline (i0=<optimized out>, i1=-725099072) at /home/cborntra/REPOS/qemu/coroutine-ucontext.c:80
>>>>> 80	        co->entry(co->entry_arg);
>>>>> (gdb) print *co
>>>>> $1 = {entry = 0x801a3c28 <bdrv_co_do_rw>, entry_arg = 0x0, caller = 0x3ffe2fff788, pool_next = {sle_next = 0x3ffd2287990}, co_queue_wakeup = {tqh_first = 0x0, 
>>>>>     tqh_last = 0x3ffd4c7dde0}, co_queue_next = {tqe_next = 0x0, tqe_prev = 0x0}}
>>>>>
>>>>> As you can see enty_arg is 0, causing the problem. Do you have any quick idea before I start debugging?
>>>>
>>>> No, I haven't seen this bug before.  Are you running qemu.git/master?
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried disabling the coroutine pool (freelist)?
>>>>
>>>> Stefan
>>>>
>>>
>>> I was able to increase the likelyhood of hitting this (more vCPUs, less guests).
>>>
>>> bisect thinks that this makes this shaky:
>>>
>>> 4d68e86bb10159099da0798f74e7512955f15eec is the first bad commit
>>> commit 4d68e86bb10159099da0798f74e7512955f15eec
>>> Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>>> Date:   Tue Dec 2 12:05:48 2014 +0100
>>>
>>>     coroutine: rewrite pool to avoid mutex
>>>
>>>
>>> Christian
>>>
>>
>> Yes, reverting these 3 makes the problem go away during an overnight run.
> 
> Let's see if a quick hack helps isolate the problem (either in the
> lockless magic or in the algorithm itself):
> 
> diff --git a/qemu-coroutine.c b/qemu-coroutine.c
> index 525247b..38e1a32 100644
> --- a/qemu-coroutine.c
> +++ b/qemu-coroutine.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ static unsigned int release_pool_size;
>  static __thread QSLIST_HEAD(, Coroutine) alloc_pool = QSLIST_HEAD_INITIALIZER(pool);
>  static __thread unsigned int alloc_pool_size;
>  static __thread Notifier coroutine_pool_cleanup_notifier;
> +static QemuMutex pool_lock;
> 
>  static void coroutine_pool_cleanup(Notifier *n, void *value)
>  {
> @@ -59,8 +60,10 @@ Coroutine *qemu_coroutine_create(CoroutineEntry *entry)
>                   * release_pool_size and the actual size of release_pool.  But
>                   * it is just a heuristic, it does not need to be perfect.
>                   */
> +                qemu_mutex_lock(&pool_lock);
>                  alloc_pool_size = atomic_xchg(&release_pool_size, 0);
>                  QSLIST_MOVE_ATOMIC(&alloc_pool, &release_pool);
> +                qemu_mutex_unlock(&pool_lock);
>                  co = QSLIST_FIRST(&alloc_pool);
>              }
>          }
> @@ -85,8 +88,10 @@ static void coroutine_delete(Coroutine *co)
> 
>      if (CONFIG_COROUTINE_POOL) {
>          if (release_pool_size < POOL_BATCH_SIZE * 2) {
> +            qemu_mutex_lock(&pool_lock);
>              QSLIST_INSERT_HEAD_ATOMIC(&release_pool, co, pool_next);
>              atomic_inc(&release_pool_size);
> +            qemu_mutex_unlock(&pool_lock);
>              return;
>          }
>          if (alloc_pool_size < POOL_BATCH_SIZE) {
> 
> 
 

That alone seems to help.
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diff --git a/qemu-coroutine.c b/qemu-coroutine.c
index 525247b..38e1a32 100644
--- a/qemu-coroutine.c
+++ b/qemu-coroutine.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@  static unsigned int release_pool_size;
 static __thread QSLIST_HEAD(, Coroutine) alloc_pool = QSLIST_HEAD_INITIALIZER(pool);
 static __thread unsigned int alloc_pool_size;
 static __thread Notifier coroutine_pool_cleanup_notifier;
+static QemuMutex pool_lock;
 
 static void coroutine_pool_cleanup(Notifier *n, void *value)
 {
@@ -59,8 +60,10 @@  Coroutine *qemu_coroutine_create(CoroutineEntry *entry)
                  * release_pool_size and the actual size of release_pool.  But
                  * it is just a heuristic, it does not need to be perfect.
                  */
+                qemu_mutex_lock(&pool_lock);
                 alloc_pool_size = atomic_xchg(&release_pool_size, 0);
                 QSLIST_MOVE_ATOMIC(&alloc_pool, &release_pool);
+                qemu_mutex_unlock(&pool_lock);
                 co = QSLIST_FIRST(&alloc_pool);
             }
         }
@@ -85,8 +88,10 @@  static void coroutine_delete(Coroutine *co)
 
     if (CONFIG_COROUTINE_POOL) {
         if (release_pool_size < POOL_BATCH_SIZE * 2) {
+            qemu_mutex_lock(&pool_lock);
             QSLIST_INSERT_HEAD_ATOMIC(&release_pool, co, pool_next);
             atomic_inc(&release_pool_size);
+            qemu_mutex_unlock(&pool_lock);
             return;
         }
         if (alloc_pool_size < POOL_BATCH_SIZE) {



And if it doesn't help, on top:

diff --git a/qemu-coroutine.c b/qemu-coroutine.c
index 525247b..38e1a32 100644
--- a/qemu-coroutine.c
+++ b/qemu-coroutine.c
@@ -85,7 +88,7 @@  static void coroutine_delete(Coroutine *co)
     if (CONFIG_COROUTINE_POOL) {
         if (release_pool_size < POOL_BATCH_SIZE * 2) {
             qemu_mutex_lock(&pool_lock);
-            QSLIST_INSERT_HEAD_ATOMIC(&release_pool, co, pool_next);
+            QSLIST_INSERT_HEAD(&release_pool, co, pool_next);
             atomic_inc(&release_pool_size);
             qemu_mutex_unlock(&pool_lock);
             return;