[Qemu-devel] Bugs in kvm guest migration

[Jan Kiszka]

Hi,

my migration issues currently look like they are driven by at least two
bugs (that's real fun). One slipped into qemu-kvm during merge of
upstream, the other is either an issue of current kvm.git master or
kvm-kmod's wrapping of the latter.

Problem 1
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Setup: qemu-kvm after 249cdd049c7976614ad46eb86409d5e1e53835cc (merge
f9ea97e859dc0fce26c35f7e047a51788a3e5441 is the first usable one again,
and it's affected), any kernel module version, 64-bit host & guest (Linux).
Effect: After resume of the migration target, its timer is still ticking
(APIC IRQs arrive) but timed Linux tasks make no progress. Linux guest
uses highres/nohz, when disabling both, the problem disappears.

Problem 2
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Setup: qemu head with vmstate fixes. kvm-kmod master, 64-bit host & guest.
Effect: The migration target either locks up or reboots immediately.
I've nailed this down to 84d0b66c778d881eafca2a5d0d66678211c4e861. Every
kvm module build before that works, everything including and after
26ede77f536d1bb369527a96c7fe7fdc8ba2f890 shows the effect (everything in
between crashes the host for known reasons). It's still unclear if this
is an kvm-kmod wrapping issue of the user-space return notifiers. Will
check once problem #1 is understood.

Any early ideas on this are welcome while I continue digging.

Jan

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