Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] fix Remus failover regression

[Hongyang Yang <yanghy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ping!

å 07/28/2014 12:03 PM, Yang Hongyang åé:
> commit: c2ba706c
> tools/libxc: goto correct label on error paths by Andrew Cooper
> broke Remus in Xen 4.4 or earlier versions that has this commit
> backported.
>
> With Remus, this jump essentially discards the current incomplete
> checkpoint received by the backup and restore backup from the
> last complete checkpoint.
> This is required for Remus to work and this does not break live
> migration.
> It has been around since Xen 4.0.
>
> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c | 13 +++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c b/tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c
> index e73e0a2..b9a56d5 100644
> --- a/tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c
> +++ b/tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c
> @@ -1783,20 +1783,29 @@ int xc_domain_restore(xc_interface *xch, int io_fd, 
> uint32_t dom,
>
>       if ( pagebuf_get(xch, ctx, &pagebuf, io_fd, dom) ) {
>           PERROR("error when buffering batch, finishing");
> -        goto out;
> +        /*
> +         * Remus: discard the current incomplete checkpoint and restore
> +         * backup from the last complete checkpoint.
> +         */
> +        goto finish;
>       }
>       memset(&tmptail, 0, sizeof(tmptail));
>       tmptail.ishvm = hvm;
>       if ( buffer_tail(xch, ctx, &tmptail, io_fd, max_vcpu_id, vcpumap,
>                        ext_vcpucontext, vcpuextstate_size) < 0 ) {
>           ERROR ("error buffering image tail, finishing");
> -        goto out;
> +        /*
> +         * Remus: discard the current incomplete checkpoint and restore
> +         * backup from the last complete checkpoint.
> +         */
> +        goto finish;
>       }
>       tailbuf_free(&tailbuf);
>       memcpy(&tailbuf, &tmptail, sizeof(tailbuf));
>
>       goto loadpages;
>
> +  /* With Remus: restore from last complete checkpoint */
>     finish:
>       if ( hvm )
>           goto finish_hvm;
--
Thanks,
Yang.

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