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Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch v2] tools/migrate: Fix regression when migrating from older version of Xen



On 16/07/13 11:52, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> Commit 00a4b65f8534c9e6521eab2e6ce796ae36037774 Sep 7 2010
>   "libxc: provide notification of final checkpoint to restore end"
> broke migration from any version of Xen using tools from prior to that commit
>
> Older tools have no idea about an XC_SAVE_ID_LAST_CHECKPOINT, causing newer
> tools xc_domain_restore() to start reading the qemu save record, as
> ctx->last_checkpoint is 0.
>
> The failure looks like:
>   xc: error: Max batch size exceeded (1970103633). Giving up.
> where 1970103633 = 0x756d6551 = *(uint32_t*)"Qemu"
>
> Sadly, the simple fix of just setting ctx->last_checkpoint = 1 will cause an
> opposite function regresson for anyone using the current behaviour of
> save_callbacks->checkpoint().
>
> The only safe fix is to rely on the toolstack to provide this information.
>
> Passing 0 results in unchanged behaviour, while passing nonzero means "the
> other end of the migration stream does not know about
> XC_SAVE_ID_LAST_CHECKPOINT but is performing a normal migrate"
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Apologies - missed the CC's when sending.

Ping?

>
> ---
> Changes since v1:
>  * Rename "last_checkpoint_unaware" to "checkpointed_stream" to be more
>    generic yet still accurate as to the meaning and fix for the issue
> ---
>  tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c |    3 ++-
>  tools/libxc/xc_nomigrate.c      |    2 +-
>  tools/libxc/xenguest.h          |    3 ++-
>  tools/libxl/libxl_save_helper.c |    2 +-
>  tools/xcutils/xc_restore.c      |    2 +-
>  5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c b/tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c
> index 63d36cd..e50b185 100644
> --- a/tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c
> +++ b/tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c
> @@ -1401,7 +1401,7 @@ int xc_domain_restore(xc_interface *xch, int io_fd, 
> uint32_t dom,
>                        domid_t store_domid, unsigned int console_evtchn,
>                        unsigned long *console_mfn, domid_t console_domid,
>                        unsigned int hvm, unsigned int pae, int superpages,
> -                      int no_incr_generationid,
> +                      int no_incr_generationid, int checkpointed_stream,
>                        unsigned long *vm_generationid_addr,
>                        struct restore_callbacks *callbacks)
>  {
> @@ -1472,6 +1472,7 @@ int xc_domain_restore(xc_interface *xch, int io_fd, 
> uint32_t dom,
>  
>      ctx->superpages = superpages;
>      ctx->hvm = hvm;
> +    ctx->last_checkpoint = !!checkpointed_stream;
>  
>      ctxt = xc_hypercall_buffer_alloc(xch, ctxt, sizeof(*ctxt));
>  
> diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_nomigrate.c b/tools/libxc/xc_nomigrate.c
> index 73e7566..fb6d53e 100644
> --- a/tools/libxc/xc_nomigrate.c
> +++ b/tools/libxc/xc_nomigrate.c
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ int xc_domain_restore(xc_interface *xch, int io_fd, 
> uint32_t dom,
>                        domid_t store_domid, unsigned int console_evtchn,
>                        unsigned long *console_mfn, domid_t console_domid,
>                        unsigned int hvm, unsigned int pae, int superpages,
> -                      int no_incr_generationid,
> +                      int no_incr_generationid, int checkpointed_stream,
>                        unsigned long *vm_generationid_addr,
>                        struct restore_callbacks *callbacks)
>  {
> diff --git a/tools/libxc/xenguest.h b/tools/libxc/xenguest.h
> index 4714bd2..2101810 100644
> --- a/tools/libxc/xenguest.h
> +++ b/tools/libxc/xenguest.h
> @@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ struct restore_callbacks {
>   * @parm pae non-zero if this HVM domain has PAE support enabled
>   * @parm superpages non-zero to allocate guest memory with superpages
>   * @parm no_incr_generationid non-zero if generation id is NOT to be 
> incremented
> + * @parm checkpointed_stream non-zero if the far end of the stream is using 
> checkpointing
>   * @parm vm_generationid_addr returned with the address of the generation id 
> buffer
>   * @parm callbacks non-NULL to receive a callback to restore toolstack
>   *       specific data
> @@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ int xc_domain_restore(xc_interface *xch, int io_fd, 
> uint32_t dom,
>                        domid_t store_domid, unsigned int console_evtchn,
>                        unsigned long *console_mfn, domid_t console_domid,
>                        unsigned int hvm, unsigned int pae, int superpages,
> -                      int no_incr_generationid,
> +                      int no_incr_generationid, int checkpointed_stream,
>                        unsigned long *vm_generationid_addr,
>                        struct restore_callbacks *callbacks);
>  /**
> diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_save_helper.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_save_helper.c
> index 772251a..8f14b8b 100644
> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl_save_helper.c
> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_save_helper.c
> @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>          r = xc_domain_restore(xch, io_fd, dom, store_evtchn, &store_mfn,
>                                store_domid, console_evtchn, &console_mfn,
>                                console_domid, hvm, pae, superpages,
> -                              no_incr_genidad, &genidad,
> +                              no_incr_genidad, 0, &genidad,
>                                &helper_restore_callbacks);
>          helper_stub_restore_results(store_mfn,console_mfn,genidad,0);
>          complete(r);
> diff --git a/tools/xcutils/xc_restore.c b/tools/xcutils/xc_restore.c
> index 35d725c..e657c7f 100644
> --- a/tools/xcutils/xc_restore.c
> +++ b/tools/xcutils/xc_restore.c
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
>  
>      ret = xc_domain_restore(xch, io_fd, domid, store_evtchn, &store_mfn, 0,
>                              console_evtchn, &console_mfn, 0, hvm, pae, 
> superpages,
> -                            0, NULL, NULL);
> +                            0, 0, NULL, NULL);
>  
>      if ( ret == 0 )
>      {


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