Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] `qdev_free` when unplug a pci device

[Wen Congyang]

At 03/09/2011 02:12 PM, Ryan Harper Write:
> * Wen Congyang <address@hidden> [2011-03-08 23:09]:
>> At 03/09/2011 12:08 PM, Ryan Harper Write:
>>> * Wen Congyang <address@hidden> [2011-02-27 20:56]:
>>>> Hi Markus Armbruster
>>>>
>>>> At 02/23/2011 04:30 PM, Markus Armbruster Write:
>>>>> Isaku Yamahata <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think this patch is correct.  Let me explain.
>>>>>
>>>>> Device hot unplug is *not* guaranteed to succeed.
>>>>>
>>>>> For some buses, such as USB, it always succeeds immediately, i.e. when
>>>>> the device_del monitor command finishes, the device is gone.  Live is
>>>>> good.
>>>>>
>>>>> But for PCI, device_del merely initiates the ACPI unplug rain dance.  It
>>>>> doesn't wait for the dance to complete.  Why?  The dance can take an
>>>>> unpredictable amount of time, including forever.
>>>>>
>>>>> Problem: Subsequent device_add can fail if it reuses the qdev ID or PCI
>>>>> slot, and the unplug has not yet completed (race condition), or it
>>>>> failed.  Yes, Virginia, PCI hotplug *can* fail.
>>>>>
>>>>> When unplug succeeds, the qdev is automatically destroyed.
>>>>> pciej_write() does that for PIIX4.  Looks like pcie_cap_slot_event()
>>>>> does it for PCIE.
>>>>
>>>> I got a similar problem.  When I unplug a pci device by hand, it works
>>>> as expected, and I can hotplug it again. But when I use a srcipt to
>>>> do the same thing, sometimes it failed. I think I may find another bug.
>>>>
>>>> Steps to reproduce this bug:
>>>> 1. cat ./test-e1000.sh # RHEL6RC is domain name
>>>>    #! /bin/bash
>>>>
>>>>    while true; do
>>>>            virsh attach-interface RHEL6RC network default --mac 
>>>> 52:54:00:1f:db:c7 --model e1000
>>>>            if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
>>>>                    break
>>>>            fi
>>>>            virsh detach-interface RHEL6RC network --mac 52:54:00:1f:db:c7
>>>>            if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
>>>>                    break
>>>>            fi
>>>>            sleep 5
>>>
>>> How do you know that the guest has responded at this point before you
>>> attempt to attach again at the top of the loop.  Any attach/detach
>>> requires the guest to respond to the request and it may not respond at
>>> all.
>>
>> When I attach/detach interface by hand, it works fine: I can see the new 
>> interface
>> when I attach it, and it disapears when I detached it.
> 
> The point is that since the attach and detach require guest
> participation, this interface isn't reliable.  You have a sleep 5 in
> your loop, hoping to wait long enough for the guest to respond, but
> after a number of iterations in your loop it fails, you can bump the
> sleep to to 3600 seconds and the guest *still* might not respond...

We use sci interrupt to tell the guest that a device has been attached/detached.
But the sci interrupt is *lost* in qemu, so the guest does not know a device has
been attached/detached, and does not respond it.

If the sci interrupt is not lost, the guest can respond it.

> 
>