Re: [Qemu-devel] sda abort with virtio-scsi

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/02/2016 22:46, Jim Minter wrote:
> I am hitting the following VM lockup issue running a VM with latest
> RHEL7 kernel on a host also running latest RHEL7 kernel.  FWIW I'm using
> virtio-scsi because I want to use discard=unmap.  I ran the VM as follows:
> 
> /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -nodefaults \
>   -cpu host \
>   -smp 4 \
>   -m 8192 \
>   -drive discard=unmap,file=vm.qcow2,id=disk1,if=none,cache=unsafe \
>   -device virtio-scsi-pci \
>   -device scsi-disk,drive=disk1 \
>   -netdev bridge,id=net0,br=br0 \
>   -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0,mac=$(utils/random-mac.py) \
>   -chardev socket,id=chan0,path=/tmp/rhev.sock,server,nowait \
>   -chardev socket,id=chan1,path=/tmp/qemu.sock,server,nowait \
>   -monitor unix:tmp/vm.sock,server,nowait \
>   -device virtio-serial-pci \
>   -device virtserialport,chardev=chan0,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm \
>   -device virtserialport,chardev=chan1,name=org.qemu.guest_agent.0 \
>   -device cirrus-vga \
>   -vnc none \
>   -usbdevice tablet
> 
> The host was busyish at the time, but not excessively (IMO).  Nothing
> untoward in the host's kernel log; host storage subsystem is fine.  I
> didn't get any qemu logs this time around, but I will when the issue
> next recurs.  The VM's full kernel log is attached; here are the
> highlights:

Hannes, were you going to send a patch to disable time outs?

> 
> INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 3} (detected by 2, t=60002 
> jiffies, g=5253, c=5252, q=0)
> sending NMI to all CPUs:
> NMI backtrace for cpu 1
> CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.10.0-327.4.5.el7.x86_64 #1
> Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 0.5.1 01/01/2011
> task: ffff88023417d080 ti: ffff8802341a4000 task.ti: ffff8802341a4000
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81058e96>]  [<ffffffff81058e96>] native_safe_halt+0x6/0x10
> RSP: 0018:ffff8802341a7e98  EFLAGS: 00000286
> RAX: 00000000ffffffed RBX: ffff8802341a4000 RCX: 0100000000000000
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000046
> RBP: ffff8802341a7e98 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
> R13: ffff8802341a4000 R14: ffff8802341a4000 R15: 0000000000000000
> FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88023fc80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 00007f4978587008 CR3: 000000003645e000 CR4: 00000000003407e0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> Stack:
>  ffff8802341a7eb8 ffffffff8101dbcf ffff8802341a4000 ffffffff81a68260
>  ffff8802341a7ec8 ffffffff8101e4d6 ffff8802341a7f20 ffffffff810d62e5
>  ffff8802341a7fd8 ffff8802341a4000 2581685d70de192c 7ba58fdb3a3bc8d4
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff8101dbcf>] default_idle+0x1f/0xc0
>  [<ffffffff8101e4d6>] arch_cpu_idle+0x26/0x30
>  [<ffffffff810d62e5>] cpu_startup_entry+0x245/0x290
>  [<ffffffff810475fa>] start_secondary+0x1ba/0x230
> Code: 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 fa 5d c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 
> e5 fb 5d c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 fb f4 <5d> c3 0f 1f 84 00 
> 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 f4 5d c3 66 0f 1f 84
> NMI backtrace for cpu 0 

This is the NMI watchdog firing; the CPU got stuck for 20 seconds.  The
issue was not a busy host, but a busy storage (could it be a network
partition if the disk was hosted on NFS???)

Firing the NMI watchdog is fixed in more recent QEMU, which has
asynchronous cancellation, assuming you're running RHEL's QEMU 1.5.3
(try /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm --version, or rpm -qf /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm).

Thanks,

Paolo