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diff --git a/results/classifier/015/all/36568044 b/results/classifier/015/all/36568044 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5273551a --- /dev/null +++ b/results/classifier/015/all/36568044 @@ -0,0 +1,4608 @@ +user-level: 0.970 +mistranslation: 0.962 +risc-v: 0.960 +kernel: 0.941 +debug: 0.939 +arm: 0.934 +device: 0.931 +graphic: 0.931 +permissions: 0.927 +assembly: 0.926 +PID: 0.926 +architecture: 0.925 +register: 0.924 +semantic: 0.923 +hypervisor: 0.920 +performance: 0.920 +virtual: 0.917 +KVM: 0.914 +VMM: 0.909 +socket: 0.907 +vnc: 0.905 +network: 0.904 +boot: 0.895 +peripherals: 0.895 +operating system: 0.894 +TCG: 0.889 +files: 0.884 +alpha: 0.873 +ppc: 0.842 +i386: 0.822 +x86: 0.805 + +[BUG, RFC] cpr-transfer: qxl guest driver crashes after migration + +Hi all, + +We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently and +have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: + +Run migration source: +> +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +> +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +> +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock +> +> +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +> +-machine q35 \ +> +-cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +> +-object +> +memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ram0,share=on\ +> +-machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +> +-machine aux-ram-share=on \ +> +-drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +> +-qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +> +-nographic \ +> +-device qxl-vga +Run migration target: +> +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +> +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +> +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +> +> +> +> +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +> +-machine q35 \ +> +-cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +> +-object +> +memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ram0,share=on\ +> +-machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +> +-machine aux-ram-share=on \ +> +-drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +> +-qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +> +-nographic \ +> +-device qxl-vga \ +> +-incoming tcp:0:44444 \ +> +-incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": "socket", +> +"type": "unix", "path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +Launch the migration: +> +QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +> +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock +> +> +$QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF +> +migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer +> +migrate +> +channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr":{"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}},{"channel-type":"cpr","addr":{"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}] +> +EOF +Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing the +following messages: +> +[ 73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +> +[ 73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, 0x00000001) +> +[ 73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to allocate +> +VRAM BO +That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1-min_halo@163.com/T/ +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +(the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which speeds up +the crash in the guest): +> +#!/bin/bash +> +> +chvt 3 +> +> +for j in $(seq 80); do +> +echo "$(date) starting round $j" +> +if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to allocate VRAM BO")" != "" +> +]; then +> +echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" +> +exit 1 +> +fi +> +for i in $(seq 100); do +> +dmesg > /dev/tty3 +> +done +> +done +> +> +echo "bug could not be reproduced" +> +exit 0 +The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce that +with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the crash - +without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't lead to +crash on the source VM. + +I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest memory, but +rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +corruption so far. + +Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into this? Any +suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! + +Andrey + +On 2/28/2025 12:39 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +Hi all, + +We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently and +have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: + +Run migration source: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ + -machine q35 \ + -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ + -object +memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ram0,share=on\ + -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ + -machine aux-ram-share=on \ + -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ + -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ + -nographic \ + -device qxl-vga +Run migration target: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +-machine q35 \ + -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ + -object +memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ram0,share=on\ + -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ + -machine aux-ram-share=on \ + -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ + -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ + -nographic \ + -device qxl-vga \ + -incoming tcp:0:44444 \ + -incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": "socket", "type": "unix", +"path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +Launch the migration: +QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF + migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer + migrate +channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr":{"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}},{"channel-type":"cpr","addr":{"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}] +EOF +Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing the +following messages: +[ 73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +[ 73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, 0x00000001) +[ 73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to allocate +VRAM BO +That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1-min_halo@163.com/T/ +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +(the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which speeds up +the crash in the guest): +#!/bin/bash + +chvt 3 + +for j in $(seq 80); do + echo "$(date) starting round $j" + if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to allocate VRAM BO")" != "" +]; then + echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" + exit 1 + fi + for i in $(seq 100); do + dmesg > /dev/tty3 + done +done + +echo "bug could not be reproduced" +exit 0 +The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce that +with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the crash - +without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't lead to +crash on the source VM. + +I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest memory, but +rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +corruption so far. + +Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into this? Any +suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! +Possibly some memory region created by qxl is not being preserved. +Try adding these traces to see what is preserved: + +-trace enable='*cpr*' +-trace enable='*ram_alloc*' + +- Steve + +On 2/28/2025 1:13 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 12:39 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +Hi all, + +We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently and +have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: + +Run migration source: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +    -machine q35 \ +    -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +    -object +memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ram0,share=on\ +    -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +    -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +    -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +    -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +    -nographic \ +    -device qxl-vga +Run migration target: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +    -machine q35 \ +    -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +    -object +memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ram0,share=on\ +    -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +    -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +    -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +    -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +    -nographic \ +    -device qxl-vga \ +    -incoming tcp:0:44444 \ +    -incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": "socket", "type": "unix", +"path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +Launch the migration: +QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF +    migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer +    migrate +channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr":{"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}},{"channel-type":"cpr","addr":{"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}] +EOF +Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing the +following messages: +[  73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +[  73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, 0x00000001) +[  73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to allocate +VRAM BO +That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1-min_halo@163.com/T/ +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +(the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which speeds up +the crash in the guest): +#!/bin/bash + +chvt 3 + +for j in $(seq 80); do +        echo "$(date) starting round $j" +        if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to allocate VRAM BO")" != "" +]; then +                echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" +                exit 1 +        fi +        for i in $(seq 100); do +                dmesg > /dev/tty3 +        done +done + +echo "bug could not be reproduced" +exit 0 +The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce that +with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the crash - +without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't lead to +crash on the source VM. + +I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest memory, but +rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +corruption so far. + +Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into this? Any +suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! +Possibly some memory region created by qxl is not being preserved. +Try adding these traces to see what is preserved: + +-trace enable='*cpr*' +-trace enable='*ram_alloc*' +Also try adding this patch to see if it flags any ram blocks as not +compatible with cpr. A message is printed at migration start time. +1740667681-257312-1-git-send-email-steven.sistare@oracle.com +/">https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/ +1740667681-257312-1-git-send-email-steven.sistare@oracle.com +/ +- Steve + +On 2/28/25 8:20 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +> +On 2/28/2025 1:13 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +> +> On 2/28/2025 12:39 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +> +>> Hi all, +> +>> +> +>> We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently and +> +>> have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: +> +>> +> +>> Run migration source: +> +>>> EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +> +>>> ROOTFS=/path/to/image +> +>>> QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock +> +>>> +> +>>> $EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +> +>>>     -machine q35 \ +> +>>>     -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +> +>>>     -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ +> +>>> ram0,share=on\ +> +>>>     -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +> +>>>     -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +> +>>>     -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +> +>>>     -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +> +>>>     -nographic \ +> +>>>     -device qxl-vga +> +>> +> +>> Run migration target: +> +>>> EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +> +>>> ROOTFS=/path/to/image +> +>>> QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +> +>>> $EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +> +>>>     -machine q35 \ +> +>>>     -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +> +>>>     -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ +> +>>> ram0,share=on\ +> +>>>     -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +> +>>>     -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +> +>>>     -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +> +>>>     -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +> +>>>     -nographic \ +> +>>>     -device qxl-vga \ +> +>>>     -incoming tcp:0:44444 \ +> +>>>     -incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": +> +>>> "socket", "type": "unix", "path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +> +>> +> +>> +> +>> Launch the migration: +> +>>> QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +> +>>> QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock +> +>>> +> +>>> $QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF +> +>>>     migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer +> +>>>     migrate channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr": +> +>>> {"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}}, +> +>>> {"channel-type":"cpr","addr": +> +>>> {"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr- +> +>>> dst.sock"}}] +> +>>> EOF +> +>> +> +>> Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing the +> +>> following messages: +> +>>> [  73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +> +>>> [  73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, +> +>>> 0x00000001) +> +>>> [  73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to +> +>>> allocate VRAM BO +> +>> +> +>> That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +> +>> +> +>> +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1-min_halo@163.com/T/ +> +>> +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +> +>> +> +>> (the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which speeds up +> +>> the crash in the guest): +> +>>> #!/bin/bash +> +>>> +> +>>> chvt 3 +> +>>> +> +>>> for j in $(seq 80); do +> +>>>         echo "$(date) starting round $j" +> +>>>         if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to allocate VRAM +> +>>> BO")" != "" ]; then +> +>>>                 echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" +> +>>>                 exit 1 +> +>>>         fi +> +>>>         for i in $(seq 100); do +> +>>>                 dmesg > /dev/tty3 +> +>>>         done +> +>>> done +> +>>> +> +>>> echo "bug could not be reproduced" +> +>>> exit 0 +> +>> +> +>> The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce that +> +>> with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +> +>> cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the crash - +> +>> without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't lead to +> +>> crash on the source VM. +> +>> +> +>> I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest memory, but +> +>> rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +> +>> somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +> +>> corruption so far. +> +>> +> +>> Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into this? Any +> +>> suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! +> +> +> +> Possibly some memory region created by qxl is not being preserved. +> +> Try adding these traces to see what is preserved: +> +> +> +> -trace enable='*cpr*' +> +> -trace enable='*ram_alloc*' +> +> +Also try adding this patch to see if it flags any ram blocks as not +> +compatible with cpr. A message is printed at migration start time. +> + +https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1740667681-257312-1-git-send-email- +> +steven.sistare@oracle.com/ +> +> +- Steve +> +With the traces enabled + the "migration: ram block cpr blockers" patch +applied: + +Source: +> +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns -1 +> +cpr_save_fd pc.bios, id 0, fd 22 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 22 host +> +0x7fec18e00000 +> +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns -1 +> +cpr_save_fd pc.rom, id 0, fd 23 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 23 host +> +0x7fec18c00000 +> +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns -1 +> +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0, fd 24 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size 262144 fd +> +24 host 0x7fec18a00000 +> +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns -1 +> +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0, fd 25 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size 67108864 +> +fd 25 host 0x7feb77e00000 +> +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns -1 +> +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0, fd 27 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 fd 27 +> +host 0x7fec18800000 +> +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns -1 +> +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0, fd 28 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size 67108864 +> +fd 28 host 0x7feb73c00000 +> +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns -1 +> +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0, fd 34 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 fd 34 +> +host 0x7fec18600000 +> +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns -1 +> +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0, fd 35 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size 2097152 fd 35 +> +host 0x7fec18200000 +> +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns -1 +> +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0, fd 36 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 fd 36 +> +host 0x7feb8b600000 +> +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns -1 +> +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0, fd 37 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd 37 host +> +0x7feb8b400000 +> +> +cpr_state_save cpr-transfer mode +> +cpr_transfer_output /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +Target: +> +cpr_transfer_input /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +> +cpr_state_load cpr-transfer mode +> +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns 20 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 20 host +> +0x7fcdc9800000 +> +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns 19 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 19 host +> +0x7fcdc9600000 +> +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns 18 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size 262144 fd +> +18 host 0x7fcdc9400000 +> +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns 17 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size 67108864 +> +fd 17 host 0x7fcd27e00000 +> +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns 16 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 fd 16 +> +host 0x7fcdc9200000 +> +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns 15 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size 67108864 +> +fd 15 host 0x7fcd23c00000 +> +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns 14 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 fd 14 +> +host 0x7fcdc8800000 +> +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns 13 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size 2097152 fd 13 +> +host 0x7fcdc8400000 +> +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns 11 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 fd 11 +> +host 0x7fcdc8200000 +> +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns 10 +> +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd 10 host +> +0x7fcd3be00000 +Looks like both vga.vram and qxl.vram are being preserved (with the same +addresses), and no incompatible ram blocks are found during migration. + +Andrey + +On 2/28/25 8:35 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +> +On 2/28/25 8:20 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +> +> On 2/28/2025 1:13 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +> +>> On 2/28/2025 12:39 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +> +>>> Hi all, +> +>>> +> +>>> We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently and +> +>>> have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: +> +>>> +> +>>> Run migration source: +> +>>>> EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +> +>>>> ROOTFS=/path/to/image +> +>>>> QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock +> +>>>> +> +>>>> $EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +> +>>>>     -machine q35 \ +> +>>>>     -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +> +>>>>     -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ +> +>>>> ram0,share=on\ +> +>>>>     -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +> +>>>>     -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +> +>>>>     -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +> +>>>>     -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +> +>>>>     -nographic \ +> +>>>>     -device qxl-vga +> +>>> +> +>>> Run migration target: +> +>>>> EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +> +>>>> ROOTFS=/path/to/image +> +>>>> QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +> +>>>> $EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +> +>>>>     -machine q35 \ +> +>>>>     -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +> +>>>>     -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ +> +>>>> ram0,share=on\ +> +>>>>     -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +> +>>>>     -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +> +>>>>     -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +> +>>>>     -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +> +>>>>     -nographic \ +> +>>>>     -device qxl-vga \ +> +>>>>     -incoming tcp:0:44444 \ +> +>>>>     -incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": +> +>>>> "socket", "type": "unix", "path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +> +>>> +> +>>> +> +>>> Launch the migration: +> +>>>> QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +> +>>>> QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock +> +>>>> +> +>>>> $QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF +> +>>>>     migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer +> +>>>>     migrate channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr": +> +>>>> {"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}}, +> +>>>> {"channel-type":"cpr","addr": +> +>>>> {"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr- +> +>>>> dst.sock"}}] +> +>>>> EOF +> +>>> +> +>>> Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing the +> +>>> following messages: +> +>>>> [  73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +> +>>>> [  73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, +> +>>>> 0x00000001) +> +>>>> [  73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to +> +>>>> allocate VRAM BO +> +>>> +> +>>> That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +> +>>> +> +>>> +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1-min_halo@163.com/T/ +> +>>> +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +> +>>> +> +>>> (the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which speeds up +> +>>> the crash in the guest): +> +>>>> #!/bin/bash +> +>>>> +> +>>>> chvt 3 +> +>>>> +> +>>>> for j in $(seq 80); do +> +>>>>         echo "$(date) starting round $j" +> +>>>>         if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to allocate VRAM +> +>>>> BO")" != "" ]; then +> +>>>>                 echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" +> +>>>>                 exit 1 +> +>>>>         fi +> +>>>>         for i in $(seq 100); do +> +>>>>                 dmesg > /dev/tty3 +> +>>>>         done +> +>>>> done +> +>>>> +> +>>>> echo "bug could not be reproduced" +> +>>>> exit 0 +> +>>> +> +>>> The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce that +> +>>> with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +> +>>> cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the crash - +> +>>> without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't lead to +> +>>> crash on the source VM. +> +>>> +> +>>> I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest memory, but +> +>>> rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +> +>>> somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +> +>>> corruption so far. +> +>>> +> +>>> Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into this? Any +> +>>> suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! +> +>> +> +>> Possibly some memory region created by qxl is not being preserved. +> +>> Try adding these traces to see what is preserved: +> +>> +> +>> -trace enable='*cpr*' +> +>> -trace enable='*ram_alloc*' +> +> +> +> Also try adding this patch to see if it flags any ram blocks as not +> +> compatible with cpr. A message is printed at migration start time. +> +>  +https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1740667681-257312-1-git-send-email- +> +> steven.sistare@oracle.com/ +> +> +> +> - Steve +> +> +> +> +With the traces enabled + the "migration: ram block cpr blockers" patch +> +applied: +> +> +Source: +> +> cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns -1 +> +> cpr_save_fd pc.bios, id 0, fd 22 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 22 host +> +> 0x7fec18e00000 +> +> cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns -1 +> +> cpr_save_fd pc.rom, id 0, fd 23 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 23 host +> +> 0x7fec18c00000 +> +> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns -1 +> +> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0, fd 24 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size 262144 fd +> +> 24 host 0x7fec18a00000 +> +> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns -1 +> +> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0, fd 25 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size 67108864 +> +> fd 25 host 0x7feb77e00000 +> +> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns -1 +> +> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0, fd 27 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 fd 27 +> +> host 0x7fec18800000 +> +> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns -1 +> +> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0, fd 28 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size 67108864 +> +> fd 28 host 0x7feb73c00000 +> +> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns -1 +> +> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0, fd 34 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 fd 34 +> +> host 0x7fec18600000 +> +> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns -1 +> +> cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0, fd 35 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size 2097152 fd +> +> 35 host 0x7fec18200000 +> +> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns -1 +> +> cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0, fd 36 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 fd 36 +> +> host 0x7feb8b600000 +> +> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns -1 +> +> cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0, fd 37 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd 37 host +> +> 0x7feb8b400000 +> +> +> +> cpr_state_save cpr-transfer mode +> +> cpr_transfer_output /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +> +> +Target: +> +> cpr_transfer_input /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +> +> cpr_state_load cpr-transfer mode +> +> cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns 20 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 20 host +> +> 0x7fcdc9800000 +> +> cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns 19 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 19 host +> +> 0x7fcdc9600000 +> +> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns 18 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size 262144 fd +> +> 18 host 0x7fcdc9400000 +> +> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns 17 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size 67108864 +> +> fd 17 host 0x7fcd27e00000 +> +> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns 16 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 fd 16 +> +> host 0x7fcdc9200000 +> +> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns 15 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size 67108864 +> +> fd 15 host 0x7fcd23c00000 +> +> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns 14 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 fd 14 +> +> host 0x7fcdc8800000 +> +> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns 13 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size 2097152 fd +> +> 13 host 0x7fcdc8400000 +> +> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns 11 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 fd 11 +> +> host 0x7fcdc8200000 +> +> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns 10 +> +> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd 10 host +> +> 0x7fcd3be00000 +> +> +Looks like both vga.vram and qxl.vram are being preserved (with the same +> +addresses), and no incompatible ram blocks are found during migration. +> +Sorry, addressed are not the same, of course. However corresponding ram +blocks do seem to be preserved and initialized. + +On 2/28/2025 1:37 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 2/28/25 8:35 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 2/28/25 8:20 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 1:13 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 12:39 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +Hi all, + +We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently and +have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: + +Run migration source: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +     -machine q35 \ +     -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +     -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ +ram0,share=on\ +     -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +     -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +     -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +     -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +     -nographic \ +     -device qxl-vga +Run migration target: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +     -machine q35 \ +     -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +     -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ +ram0,share=on\ +     -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +     -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +     -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +     -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +     -nographic \ +     -device qxl-vga \ +     -incoming tcp:0:44444 \ +     -incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": +"socket", "type": "unix", "path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +Launch the migration: +QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF +     migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer +     migrate channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr": +{"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}}, +{"channel-type":"cpr","addr": +{"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr- +dst.sock"}}] +EOF +Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing the +following messages: +[  73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +[  73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, +0x00000001) +[  73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to +allocate VRAM BO +That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1-min_halo@163.com/T/ +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +(the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which speeds up +the crash in the guest): +#!/bin/bash + +chvt 3 + +for j in $(seq 80); do +         echo "$(date) starting round $j" +         if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to allocate VRAM +BO")" != "" ]; then +                 echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" +                 exit 1 +         fi +         for i in $(seq 100); do +                 dmesg > /dev/tty3 +         done +done + +echo "bug could not be reproduced" +exit 0 +The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce that +with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the crash - +without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't lead to +crash on the source VM. + +I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest memory, but +rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +corruption so far. + +Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into this? Any +suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! +Possibly some memory region created by qxl is not being preserved. +Try adding these traces to see what is preserved: + +-trace enable='*cpr*' +-trace enable='*ram_alloc*' +Also try adding this patch to see if it flags any ram blocks as not +compatible with cpr. A message is printed at migration start time. +  +https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1740667681-257312-1-git-send-email- +steven.sistare@oracle.com/ + +- Steve +With the traces enabled + the "migration: ram block cpr blockers" patch +applied: + +Source: +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd pc.bios, id 0, fd 22 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 22 host +0x7fec18e00000 +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd pc.rom, id 0, fd 23 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 23 host +0x7fec18c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0, fd 24 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 24 +host 0x7fec18a00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0, fd 25 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size 67108864 fd +25 host 0x7feb77e00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0, fd 27 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 fd 27 host +0x7fec18800000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0, fd 28 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size 67108864 fd +28 host 0x7feb73c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0, fd 34 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 fd 34 host +0x7fec18600000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0, fd 35 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size 2097152 fd 35 +host 0x7fec18200000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0, fd 36 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 fd 36 host +0x7feb8b600000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0, fd 37 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd 37 host +0x7feb8b400000 + +cpr_state_save cpr-transfer mode +cpr_transfer_output /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +Target: +cpr_transfer_input /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +cpr_state_load cpr-transfer mode +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns 20 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 20 host +0x7fcdc9800000 +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns 19 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 19 host +0x7fcdc9600000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns 18 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 18 +host 0x7fcdc9400000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns 17 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size 67108864 fd +17 host 0x7fcd27e00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns 16 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 fd 16 host +0x7fcdc9200000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns 15 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size 67108864 fd +15 host 0x7fcd23c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns 14 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 fd 14 host +0x7fcdc8800000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns 13 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size 2097152 fd 13 +host 0x7fcdc8400000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns 11 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 fd 11 host +0x7fcdc8200000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns 10 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd 10 host +0x7fcd3be00000 +Looks like both vga.vram and qxl.vram are being preserved (with the same +addresses), and no incompatible ram blocks are found during migration. +Sorry, addressed are not the same, of course. However corresponding ram +blocks do seem to be preserved and initialized. +So far, I have not reproduced the guest driver failure. + +However, I have isolated places where new QEMU improperly writes to +the qxl memory regions prior to starting the guest, by mmap'ing them +readonly after cpr: + + qemu_ram_alloc_internal() + if (reused && (strstr(name, "qxl") || strstr("name", "vga"))) + ram_flags |= RAM_READONLY; + new_block = qemu_ram_alloc_from_fd(...) + +I have attached a draft fix; try it and let me know. +My console window looks fine before and after cpr, using +-vnc $hostip:0 -vga qxl + +- Steve +0001-hw-qxl-cpr-support-preliminary.patch +Description: +Text document + +On 3/4/25 9:05 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +> +On 2/28/2025 1:37 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +> +> On 2/28/25 8:35 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +> +>> On 2/28/25 8:20 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +> +>>> On 2/28/2025 1:13 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +> +>>>> On 2/28/2025 12:39 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +> +>>>>> Hi all, +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently +> +>>>>> and +> +>>>>> have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> Run migration source: +> +>>>>>> EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +> +>>>>>> ROOTFS=/path/to/image +> +>>>>>> QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock +> +>>>>>> +> +>>>>>> $EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +> +>>>>>>      -machine q35 \ +> +>>>>>>      -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +> +>>>>>>      -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ +> +>>>>>> ram0,share=on\ +> +>>>>>>      -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +> +>>>>>>      -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +> +>>>>>>      -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +> +>>>>>>      -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +> +>>>>>>      -nographic \ +> +>>>>>>      -device qxl-vga +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> Run migration target: +> +>>>>>> EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +> +>>>>>> ROOTFS=/path/to/image +> +>>>>>> QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +> +>>>>>> $EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +> +>>>>>>      -machine q35 \ +> +>>>>>>      -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +> +>>>>>>      -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ +> +>>>>>> ram0,share=on\ +> +>>>>>>      -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +> +>>>>>>      -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +> +>>>>>>      -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +> +>>>>>>      -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +> +>>>>>>      -nographic \ +> +>>>>>>      -device qxl-vga \ +> +>>>>>>      -incoming tcp:0:44444 \ +> +>>>>>>      -incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": +> +>>>>>> "socket", "type": "unix", "path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> Launch the migration: +> +>>>>>> QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +> +>>>>>> QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock +> +>>>>>> +> +>>>>>> $QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF +> +>>>>>>      migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer +> +>>>>>>      migrate channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr": +> +>>>>>> {"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}}, +> +>>>>>> {"channel-type":"cpr","addr": +> +>>>>>> {"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr- +> +>>>>>> dst.sock"}}] +> +>>>>>> EOF +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing the +> +>>>>> following messages: +> +>>>>>> [  73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +> +>>>>>> [  73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, +> +>>>>>> 0x00000001) +> +>>>>>> [  73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to +> +>>>>>> allocate VRAM BO +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1- +> +>>>>> min_halo@163.com/T/ +> +>>>>> +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> (the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which speeds up +> +>>>>> the crash in the guest): +> +>>>>>> #!/bin/bash +> +>>>>>> +> +>>>>>> chvt 3 +> +>>>>>> +> +>>>>>> for j in $(seq 80); do +> +>>>>>>          echo "$(date) starting round $j" +> +>>>>>>          if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to allocate VRAM +> +>>>>>> BO")" != "" ]; then +> +>>>>>>                  echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" +> +>>>>>>                  exit 1 +> +>>>>>>          fi +> +>>>>>>          for i in $(seq 100); do +> +>>>>>>                  dmesg > /dev/tty3 +> +>>>>>>          done +> +>>>>>> done +> +>>>>>> +> +>>>>>> echo "bug could not be reproduced" +> +>>>>>> exit 0 +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce +> +>>>>> that +> +>>>>> with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +> +>>>>> cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the crash - +> +>>>>> without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't +> +>>>>> lead to +> +>>>>> crash on the source VM. +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest memory, but +> +>>>>> rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +> +>>>>> somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +> +>>>>> corruption so far. +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into this? Any +> +>>>>> suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! +> +>>>> +> +>>>> Possibly some memory region created by qxl is not being preserved. +> +>>>> Try adding these traces to see what is preserved: +> +>>>> +> +>>>> -trace enable='*cpr*' +> +>>>> -trace enable='*ram_alloc*' +> +>>> +> +>>> Also try adding this patch to see if it flags any ram blocks as not +> +>>> compatible with cpr. A message is printed at migration start time. +> +>>>   +https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1740667681-257312-1-git-send- +> +>>> email- +> +>>> steven.sistare@oracle.com/ +> +>>> +> +>>> - Steve +> +>>> +> +>> +> +>> With the traces enabled + the "migration: ram block cpr blockers" patch +> +>> applied: +> +>> +> +>> Source: +> +>>> cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>> cpr_save_fd pc.bios, id 0, fd 22 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 22 host +> +>>> 0x7fec18e00000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>> cpr_save_fd pc.rom, id 0, fd 23 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 23 host +> +>>> 0x7fec18c00000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0, fd 24 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +> +>>> 262144 fd 24 host 0x7fec18a00000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0, fd 25 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +> +>>> 67108864 fd 25 host 0x7feb77e00000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0, fd 27 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +> +>>> fd 27 host 0x7fec18800000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0, fd 28 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +> +>>> 67108864 fd 28 host 0x7feb73c00000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0, fd 34 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +> +>>> fd 34 host 0x7fec18600000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>> cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0, fd 35 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +> +>>> 2097152 fd 35 host 0x7fec18200000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>> cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0, fd 36 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +> +>>> fd 36 host 0x7feb8b600000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>> cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0, fd 37 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +> +>>> 37 host 0x7feb8b400000 +> +>>> +> +>>> cpr_state_save cpr-transfer mode +> +>>> cpr_transfer_output /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +> +>> +> +>> Target: +> +>>> cpr_transfer_input /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +> +>>> cpr_state_load cpr-transfer mode +> +>>> cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns 20 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 20 host +> +>>> 0x7fcdc9800000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns 19 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 19 host +> +>>> 0x7fcdc9600000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns 18 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +> +>>> 262144 fd 18 host 0x7fcdc9400000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns 17 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +> +>>> 67108864 fd 17 host 0x7fcd27e00000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns 16 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +> +>>> fd 16 host 0x7fcdc9200000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns 15 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +> +>>> 67108864 fd 15 host 0x7fcd23c00000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns 14 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +> +>>> fd 14 host 0x7fcdc8800000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns 13 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +> +>>> 2097152 fd 13 host 0x7fcdc8400000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns 11 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +> +>>> fd 11 host 0x7fcdc8200000 +> +>>> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns 10 +> +>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +> +>>> 10 host 0x7fcd3be00000 +> +>> +> +>> Looks like both vga.vram and qxl.vram are being preserved (with the same +> +>> addresses), and no incompatible ram blocks are found during migration. +> +> +> +> Sorry, addressed are not the same, of course. However corresponding ram +> +> blocks do seem to be preserved and initialized. +> +> +So far, I have not reproduced the guest driver failure. +> +> +However, I have isolated places where new QEMU improperly writes to +> +the qxl memory regions prior to starting the guest, by mmap'ing them +> +readonly after cpr: +> +> + qemu_ram_alloc_internal() +> +   if (reused && (strstr(name, "qxl") || strstr("name", "vga"))) +> +       ram_flags |= RAM_READONLY; +> +   new_block = qemu_ram_alloc_from_fd(...) +> +> +I have attached a draft fix; try it and let me know. +> +My console window looks fine before and after cpr, using +> +-vnc $hostip:0 -vga qxl +> +> +- Steve +Regarding the reproduce: when I launch the buggy version with the same +options as you, i.e. "-vnc 0.0.0.0:$port -vga qxl", and do cpr-transfer, +my VNC client silently hangs on the target after a while. Could it +happen on your stand as well? Could you try launching VM with +"-nographic -device qxl-vga"? That way VM's serial console is given you +directly in the shell, so when qxl driver crashes you're still able to +inspect the kernel messages. + +As for your patch, I can report that it doesn't resolve the issue as it +is. But I was able to track down another possible memory corruption +using your approach with readonly mmap'ing: + +> +Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. +> +#0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +> +412 d->ram->magic = cpu_to_le32(QXL_RAM_MAGIC); +> +[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f1a4f83b480 (LWP 229798))] +> +(gdb) bt +> +#0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +> +#1 0x0000563896e7f467 in qxl_realize_common (qxl=0x5638996e0e70, +> +errp=0x7ffd3c2b8170) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2142 +> +#2 0x0000563896e7fda1 in qxl_realize_primary (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +> +errp=0x7ffd3c2b81d0) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2257 +> +#3 0x0000563896c7e8f2 in pci_qdev_realize (qdev=0x5638996e0e70, +> +errp=0x7ffd3c2b8250) at ../hw/pci/pci.c:2174 +> +#4 0x00005638970eb54b in device_set_realized (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +> +value=true, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:494 +> +#5 0x00005638970f5e14 in property_set_bool (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +> +v=0x5638996f3770, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", opaque=0x5638987893d0, +> +errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +> +at ../qom/object.c:2374 +> +#6 0x00005638970f39f8 in object_property_set (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +> +name=0x56389759b141 "realized", v=0x5638996f3770, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +> +at ../qom/object.c:1449 +> +#7 0x00005638970f8586 in object_property_set_qobject (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +> +name=0x56389759b141 "realized", value=0x5638996df900, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +> +at ../qom/qom-qobject.c:28 +> +#8 0x00005638970f3d8d in object_property_set_bool (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +> +name=0x56389759b141 "realized", value=true, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +> +at ../qom/object.c:1519 +> +#9 0x00005638970eacb0 in qdev_realize (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +> +bus=0x563898cf3c20, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:276 +> +#10 0x0000563896dba675 in qdev_device_add_from_qdict (opts=0x5638996dfe50, +> +from_json=false, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../system/qdev-monitor.c:714 +> +#11 0x0000563896dba721 in qdev_device_add (opts=0x563898786150, +> +errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at ../system/qdev-monitor.c:733 +> +#12 0x0000563896dc48f1 in device_init_func (opaque=0x0, opts=0x563898786150, +> +errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:1207 +> +#13 0x000056389737a6cc in qemu_opts_foreach +> +(list=0x563898427b60 <qemu_device_opts>, func=0x563896dc48ca +> +<device_init_func>, opaque=0x0, errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) +> +at ../util/qemu-option.c:1135 +> +#14 0x0000563896dc89b5 in qemu_create_cli_devices () at ../system/vl.c:2745 +> +#15 0x0000563896dc8c00 in qmp_x_exit_preconfig (errp=0x56389855dc40 +> +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2806 +> +#16 0x0000563896dcb5de in qemu_init (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) at +> +../system/vl.c:3838 +> +#17 0x0000563897297323 in main (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) at +> +../system/main.c:72 +So the attached adjusted version of your patch does seem to help. At +least I can't reproduce the crash on my stand. + +I'm wondering, could it be useful to explicitly mark all the reused +memory regions readonly upon cpr-transfer, and then make them writable +back again after the migration is done? That way we will be segfaulting +early on instead of debugging tricky memory corruptions. + +Andrey +0001-hw-qxl-cpr-support-preliminary.patch +Description: +Text Data + +On 3/5/2025 11:50 AM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 3/4/25 9:05 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 1:37 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 2/28/25 8:35 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 2/28/25 8:20 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 1:13 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 12:39 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +Hi all, + +We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently +and +have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: + +Run migration source: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +      -machine q35 \ +      -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +      -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ +ram0,share=on\ +      -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +      -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +      -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +      -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +      -nographic \ +      -device qxl-vga +Run migration target: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +      -machine q35 \ +      -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +      -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ +ram0,share=on\ +      -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +      -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +      -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +      -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +      -nographic \ +      -device qxl-vga \ +      -incoming tcp:0:44444 \ +      -incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": +"socket", "type": "unix", "path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +Launch the migration: +QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF +      migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer +      migrate channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr": +{"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}}, +{"channel-type":"cpr","addr": +{"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr- +dst.sock"}}] +EOF +Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing the +following messages: +[  73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +[  73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, +0x00000001) +[  73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to +allocate VRAM BO +That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1- +min_halo@163.com/T/ +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +(the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which speeds up +the crash in the guest): +#!/bin/bash + +chvt 3 + +for j in $(seq 80); do +          echo "$(date) starting round $j" +          if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to allocate VRAM +BO")" != "" ]; then +                  echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" +                  exit 1 +          fi +          for i in $(seq 100); do +                  dmesg > /dev/tty3 +          done +done + +echo "bug could not be reproduced" +exit 0 +The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce +that +with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the crash - +without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't +lead to +crash on the source VM. + +I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest memory, but +rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +corruption so far. + +Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into this? Any +suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! +Possibly some memory region created by qxl is not being preserved. +Try adding these traces to see what is preserved: + +-trace enable='*cpr*' +-trace enable='*ram_alloc*' +Also try adding this patch to see if it flags any ram blocks as not +compatible with cpr. A message is printed at migration start time. +   +https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1740667681-257312-1-git-send- +email- +steven.sistare@oracle.com/ + +- Steve +With the traces enabled + the "migration: ram block cpr blockers" patch +applied: + +Source: +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd pc.bios, id 0, fd 22 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 22 host +0x7fec18e00000 +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd pc.rom, id 0, fd 23 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 23 host +0x7fec18c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0, fd 24 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +262144 fd 24 host 0x7fec18a00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0, fd 25 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 25 host 0x7feb77e00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0, fd 27 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +fd 27 host 0x7fec18800000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0, fd 28 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 28 host 0x7feb73c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0, fd 34 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +fd 34 host 0x7fec18600000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0, fd 35 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +2097152 fd 35 host 0x7fec18200000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0, fd 36 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +fd 36 host 0x7feb8b600000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0, fd 37 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +37 host 0x7feb8b400000 + +cpr_state_save cpr-transfer mode +cpr_transfer_output /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +Target: +cpr_transfer_input /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +cpr_state_load cpr-transfer mode +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns 20 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 20 host +0x7fcdc9800000 +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns 19 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 19 host +0x7fcdc9600000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns 18 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +262144 fd 18 host 0x7fcdc9400000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns 17 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 17 host 0x7fcd27e00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns 16 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +fd 16 host 0x7fcdc9200000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns 15 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 15 host 0x7fcd23c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns 14 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +fd 14 host 0x7fcdc8800000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns 13 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +2097152 fd 13 host 0x7fcdc8400000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns 11 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +fd 11 host 0x7fcdc8200000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns 10 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +10 host 0x7fcd3be00000 +Looks like both vga.vram and qxl.vram are being preserved (with the same +addresses), and no incompatible ram blocks are found during migration. +Sorry, addressed are not the same, of course. However corresponding ram +blocks do seem to be preserved and initialized. +So far, I have not reproduced the guest driver failure. + +However, I have isolated places where new QEMU improperly writes to +the qxl memory regions prior to starting the guest, by mmap'ing them +readonly after cpr: + +  qemu_ram_alloc_internal() +    if (reused && (strstr(name, "qxl") || strstr("name", "vga"))) +        ram_flags |= RAM_READONLY; +    new_block = qemu_ram_alloc_from_fd(...) + +I have attached a draft fix; try it and let me know. +My console window looks fine before and after cpr, using +-vnc $hostip:0 -vga qxl + +- Steve +Regarding the reproduce: when I launch the buggy version with the same +options as you, i.e. "-vnc 0.0.0.0:$port -vga qxl", and do cpr-transfer, +my VNC client silently hangs on the target after a while. Could it +happen on your stand as well? +cpr does not preserve the vnc connection and session. To test, I specify +port 0 for the source VM and port 1 for the dest. When the src vnc goes +dormant the dest vnc becomes active. +Could you try launching VM with +"-nographic -device qxl-vga"? That way VM's serial console is given you +directly in the shell, so when qxl driver crashes you're still able to +inspect the kernel messages. +I have been running like that, but have not reproduced the qxl driver crash, +and I suspect my guest image+kernel is too old. However, once I realized the +issue was post-cpr modification of qxl memory, I switched my attention to the +fix. +As for your patch, I can report that it doesn't resolve the issue as it +is. But I was able to track down another possible memory corruption +using your approach with readonly mmap'ing: +Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. +#0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +412 d->ram->magic = cpu_to_le32(QXL_RAM_MAGIC); +[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f1a4f83b480 (LWP 229798))] +(gdb) bt +#0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +#1 0x0000563896e7f467 in qxl_realize_common (qxl=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b8170) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2142 +#2 0x0000563896e7fda1 in qxl_realize_primary (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b81d0) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2257 +#3 0x0000563896c7e8f2 in pci_qdev_realize (qdev=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b8250) at ../hw/pci/pci.c:2174 +#4 0x00005638970eb54b in device_set_realized (obj=0x5638996e0e70, value=true, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:494 +#5 0x00005638970f5e14 in property_set_bool (obj=0x5638996e0e70, v=0x5638996f3770, +name=0x56389759b141 "realized", opaque=0x5638987893d0, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) + at ../qom/object.c:2374 +#6 0x00005638970f39f8 in object_property_set (obj=0x5638996e0e70, name=0x56389759b141 +"realized", v=0x5638996f3770, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) + at ../qom/object.c:1449 +#7 0x00005638970f8586 in object_property_set_qobject (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +name=0x56389759b141 "realized", value=0x5638996df900, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) + at ../qom/qom-qobject.c:28 +#8 0x00005638970f3d8d in object_property_set_bool (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +name=0x56389759b141 "realized", value=true, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) + at ../qom/object.c:1519 +#9 0x00005638970eacb0 in qdev_realize (dev=0x5638996e0e70, bus=0x563898cf3c20, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:276 +#10 0x0000563896dba675 in qdev_device_add_from_qdict (opts=0x5638996dfe50, +from_json=false, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../system/qdev-monitor.c:714 +#11 0x0000563896dba721 in qdev_device_add (opts=0x563898786150, errp=0x56389855dc40 +<error_fatal>) at ../system/qdev-monitor.c:733 +#12 0x0000563896dc48f1 in device_init_func (opaque=0x0, opts=0x563898786150, +errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:1207 +#13 0x000056389737a6cc in qemu_opts_foreach + (list=0x563898427b60 <qemu_device_opts>, func=0x563896dc48ca <device_init_func>, +opaque=0x0, errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) + at ../util/qemu-option.c:1135 +#14 0x0000563896dc89b5 in qemu_create_cli_devices () at ../system/vl.c:2745 +#15 0x0000563896dc8c00 in qmp_x_exit_preconfig (errp=0x56389855dc40 +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2806 +#16 0x0000563896dcb5de in qemu_init (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) at +../system/vl.c:3838 +#17 0x0000563897297323 in main (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) at +../system/main.c:72 +So the attached adjusted version of your patch does seem to help. At +least I can't reproduce the crash on my stand. +Thanks for the stack trace; the calls to SPICE_RING_INIT in init_qxl_ram are +definitely harmful. Try V2 of the patch, attached, which skips the lines +of init_qxl_ram that modify guest memory. +I'm wondering, could it be useful to explicitly mark all the reused +memory regions readonly upon cpr-transfer, and then make them writable +back again after the migration is done? That way we will be segfaulting +early on instead of debugging tricky memory corruptions. +It's a useful debugging technique, but changing protection on a large memory +region +can be too expensive for production due to TLB shootdowns. + +Also, there are cases where writes are performed but the value is guaranteed to +be the same: + qxl_post_load() + qxl_set_mode() + d->rom->mode = cpu_to_le32(modenr); +The value is the same because mode and shadow_rom.mode were passed in vmstate +from old qemu. + +- Steve +0001-hw-qxl-cpr-support-preliminary-V2.patch +Description: +Text document + +On 3/5/25 22:19, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 3/5/2025 11:50 AM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 3/4/25 9:05 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 1:37 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 2/28/25 8:35 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 2/28/25 8:20 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 1:13 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 12:39 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +Hi all, + +We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently +and +have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: + +Run migration source: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +      -machine q35 \ +      -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +      -object +memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ +ram0,share=on\ +      -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +      -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +      -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +      -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +      -nographic \ +      -device qxl-vga +Run migration target: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +      -machine q35 \ +      -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +      -object +memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/dev/shm/ +ram0,share=on\ +      -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +      -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +      -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +      -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +      -nographic \ +      -device qxl-vga \ +      -incoming tcp:0:44444 \ +      -incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": +"socket", "type": "unix", "path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +Launch the migration: +QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF +      migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer +      migrate channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr": +{"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}}, +{"channel-type":"cpr","addr": +{"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr- +dst.sock"}}] +EOF +Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing +the +following messages: +[  73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +[  73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, +0x00000001) +[  73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* +failed to +allocate VRAM BO +That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1- +min_halo@163.com/T/ +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +(the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which +speeds up +the crash in the guest): +#!/bin/bash + +chvt 3 + +for j in $(seq 80); do +          echo "$(date) starting round $j" +          if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to +allocate VRAM +BO")" != "" ]; then +                  echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" +                  exit 1 +          fi +          for i in $(seq 100); do +                  dmesg > /dev/tty3 +          done +done + +echo "bug could not be reproduced" +exit 0 +The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce +that +with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the +crash - +without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't +lead to +crash on the source VM. +I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest +memory, but +rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +corruption so far. +Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into +this? Any +suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! +Possibly some memory region created by qxl is not being preserved. +Try adding these traces to see what is preserved: + +-trace enable='*cpr*' +-trace enable='*ram_alloc*' +Also try adding this patch to see if it flags any ram blocks as not +compatible with cpr. A message is printed at migration start time. +https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1740667681-257312-1-git-send- +email- +steven.sistare@oracle.com/ + +- Steve +With the traces enabled + the "migration: ram block cpr blockers" +patch +applied: + +Source: +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd pc.bios, id 0, fd 22 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 22 host +0x7fec18e00000 +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd pc.rom, id 0, fd 23 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 23 host +0x7fec18c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0, fd 24 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +262144 fd 24 host 0x7fec18a00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0, fd 25 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 25 host 0x7feb77e00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0, fd 27 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +fd 27 host 0x7fec18800000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0, fd 28 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 28 host 0x7feb73c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0, fd 34 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +fd 34 host 0x7fec18600000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0, fd 35 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +2097152 fd 35 host 0x7fec18200000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0, fd 36 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +fd 36 host 0x7feb8b600000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0, fd 37 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +37 host 0x7feb8b400000 + +cpr_state_save cpr-transfer mode +cpr_transfer_output /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +Target: +cpr_transfer_input /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +cpr_state_load cpr-transfer mode +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns 20 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 20 host +0x7fcdc9800000 +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns 19 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 19 host +0x7fcdc9600000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns 18 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +262144 fd 18 host 0x7fcdc9400000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns 17 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 17 host 0x7fcd27e00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns 16 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +fd 16 host 0x7fcdc9200000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns 15 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 15 host 0x7fcd23c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns 14 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +fd 14 host 0x7fcdc8800000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns 13 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +2097152 fd 13 host 0x7fcdc8400000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns 11 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +fd 11 host 0x7fcdc8200000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns 10 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +10 host 0x7fcd3be00000 +Looks like both vga.vram and qxl.vram are being preserved (with +the same +addresses), and no incompatible ram blocks are found during +migration. +Sorry, addressed are not the same, of course. However +corresponding ram +blocks do seem to be preserved and initialized. +So far, I have not reproduced the guest driver failure. + +However, I have isolated places where new QEMU improperly writes to +the qxl memory regions prior to starting the guest, by mmap'ing them +readonly after cpr: + +  qemu_ram_alloc_internal() +    if (reused && (strstr(name, "qxl") || strstr("name", "vga"))) +        ram_flags |= RAM_READONLY; +    new_block = qemu_ram_alloc_from_fd(...) + +I have attached a draft fix; try it and let me know. +My console window looks fine before and after cpr, using +-vnc $hostip:0 -vga qxl + +- Steve +Regarding the reproduce: when I launch the buggy version with the same +options as you, i.e. "-vnc 0.0.0.0:$port -vga qxl", and do cpr-transfer, +my VNC client silently hangs on the target after a while. Could it +happen on your stand as well? +cpr does not preserve the vnc connection and session. To test, I specify +port 0 for the source VM and port 1 for the dest. When the src vnc goes +dormant the dest vnc becomes active. +Could you try launching VM with +"-nographic -device qxl-vga"? That way VM's serial console is given you +directly in the shell, so when qxl driver crashes you're still able to +inspect the kernel messages. +I have been running like that, but have not reproduced the qxl driver +crash, +and I suspect my guest image+kernel is too old. However, once I +realized the +issue was post-cpr modification of qxl memory, I switched my attention +to the +fix. +As for your patch, I can report that it doesn't resolve the issue as it +is. But I was able to track down another possible memory corruption +using your approach with readonly mmap'ing: +Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. +#0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +412        d->ram->magic      = cpu_to_le32(QXL_RAM_MAGIC); +[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f1a4f83b480 (LWP 229798))] +(gdb) bt +#0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +#1 0x0000563896e7f467 in qxl_realize_common (qxl=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b8170) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2142 +#2 0x0000563896e7fda1 in qxl_realize_primary (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b81d0) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2257 +#3 0x0000563896c7e8f2 in pci_qdev_realize (qdev=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b8250) at ../hw/pci/pci.c:2174 +#4 0x00005638970eb54b in device_set_realized (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +value=true, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:494 +#5 0x00005638970f5e14 in property_set_bool (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +v=0x5638996f3770, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", +opaque=0x5638987893d0, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +    at ../qom/object.c:2374 +#6 0x00005638970f39f8 in object_property_set (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +name=0x56389759b141 "realized", v=0x5638996f3770, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +    at ../qom/object.c:1449 +#7 0x00005638970f8586 in object_property_set_qobject +(obj=0x5638996e0e70, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", +value=0x5638996df900, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +    at ../qom/qom-qobject.c:28 +#8 0x00005638970f3d8d in object_property_set_bool +(obj=0x5638996e0e70, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", value=true, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +    at ../qom/object.c:1519 +#9 0x00005638970eacb0 in qdev_realize (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +bus=0x563898cf3c20, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:276 +#10 0x0000563896dba675 in qdev_device_add_from_qdict +(opts=0x5638996dfe50, from_json=false, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at +../system/qdev-monitor.c:714 +#11 0x0000563896dba721 in qdev_device_add (opts=0x563898786150, +errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at ../system/qdev-monitor.c:733 +#12 0x0000563896dc48f1 in device_init_func (opaque=0x0, +opts=0x563898786150, errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at +../system/vl.c:1207 +#13 0x000056389737a6cc in qemu_opts_foreach +    (list=0x563898427b60 <qemu_device_opts>, func=0x563896dc48ca +<device_init_func>, opaque=0x0, errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) +    at ../util/qemu-option.c:1135 +#14 0x0000563896dc89b5 in qemu_create_cli_devices () at +../system/vl.c:2745 +#15 0x0000563896dc8c00 in qmp_x_exit_preconfig (errp=0x56389855dc40 +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2806 +#16 0x0000563896dcb5de in qemu_init (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) +at ../system/vl.c:3838 +#17 0x0000563897297323 in main (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) at +../system/main.c:72 +So the attached adjusted version of your patch does seem to help. At +least I can't reproduce the crash on my stand. +Thanks for the stack trace; the calls to SPICE_RING_INIT in +init_qxl_ram are +definitely harmful. Try V2 of the patch, attached, which skips the lines +of init_qxl_ram that modify guest memory. +I'm wondering, could it be useful to explicitly mark all the reused +memory regions readonly upon cpr-transfer, and then make them writable +back again after the migration is done? That way we will be segfaulting +early on instead of debugging tricky memory corruptions. +It's a useful debugging technique, but changing protection on a large +memory region +can be too expensive for production due to TLB shootdowns. +Good point. Though we could move this code under non-default option to +avoid re-writing. + +Den + +On 3/5/25 11:19 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +> +On 3/5/2025 11:50 AM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +> +> On 3/4/25 9:05 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +> +>> On 2/28/2025 1:37 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +> +>>> On 2/28/25 8:35 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +> +>>>> On 2/28/25 8:20 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +> +>>>>> On 2/28/2025 1:13 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +> +>>>>>> On 2/28/2025 12:39 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +> +>>>>>>> Hi all, +> +>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>> We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently +> +>>>>>>> and +> +>>>>>>> have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: +> +>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>> Run migration source: +> +>>>>>>>> EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +> +>>>>>>>> ROOTFS=/path/to/image +> +>>>>>>>> QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock +> +>>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>>> $EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -machine q35 \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/ +> +>>>>>>>> dev/shm/ +> +>>>>>>>> ram0,share=on\ +> +>>>>>>>>       -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -nographic \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -device qxl-vga +> +>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>> Run migration target: +> +>>>>>>>> EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +> +>>>>>>>> ROOTFS=/path/to/image +> +>>>>>>>> QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +> +>>>>>>>> $EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -machine q35 \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/ +> +>>>>>>>> dev/shm/ +> +>>>>>>>> ram0,share=on\ +> +>>>>>>>>       -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -nographic \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -device qxl-vga \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -incoming tcp:0:44444 \ +> +>>>>>>>>       -incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": +> +>>>>>>>> "socket", "type": "unix", "path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +> +>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>> Launch the migration: +> +>>>>>>>> QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +> +>>>>>>>> QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock +> +>>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>>> $QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF +> +>>>>>>>>       migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer +> +>>>>>>>>       migrate channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr": +> +>>>>>>>> {"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}}, +> +>>>>>>>> {"channel-type":"cpr","addr": +> +>>>>>>>> {"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr- +> +>>>>>>>> dst.sock"}}] +> +>>>>>>>> EOF +> +>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>> Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing the +> +>>>>>>> following messages: +> +>>>>>>>> [  73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +> +>>>>>>>> [  73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, +> +>>>>>>>> 0x00000001) +> +>>>>>>>> [  73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to +> +>>>>>>>> allocate VRAM BO +> +>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>> That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +> +>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>> +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1- +> +>>>>>>> min_halo@163.com/T/ +> +>>>>>>> +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +> +>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>> (the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which +> +>>>>>>> speeds up +> +>>>>>>> the crash in the guest): +> +>>>>>>>> #!/bin/bash +> +>>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>>> chvt 3 +> +>>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>>> for j in $(seq 80); do +> +>>>>>>>>           echo "$(date) starting round $j" +> +>>>>>>>>           if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to allocate +> +>>>>>>>> VRAM +> +>>>>>>>> BO")" != "" ]; then +> +>>>>>>>>                   echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" +> +>>>>>>>>                   exit 1 +> +>>>>>>>>           fi +> +>>>>>>>>           for i in $(seq 100); do +> +>>>>>>>>                   dmesg > /dev/tty3 +> +>>>>>>>>           done +> +>>>>>>>> done +> +>>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>>> echo "bug could not be reproduced" +> +>>>>>>>> exit 0 +> +>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>> The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce +> +>>>>>>> that +> +>>>>>>> with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +> +>>>>>>> cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the crash - +> +>>>>>>> without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't +> +>>>>>>> lead to +> +>>>>>>> crash on the source VM. +> +>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>> I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest +> +>>>>>>> memory, but +> +>>>>>>> rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +> +>>>>>>> somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +> +>>>>>>> corruption so far. +> +>>>>>>> +> +>>>>>>> Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into +> +>>>>>>> this? Any +> +>>>>>>> suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! +> +>>>>>> +> +>>>>>> Possibly some memory region created by qxl is not being preserved. +> +>>>>>> Try adding these traces to see what is preserved: +> +>>>>>> +> +>>>>>> -trace enable='*cpr*' +> +>>>>>> -trace enable='*ram_alloc*' +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> Also try adding this patch to see if it flags any ram blocks as not +> +>>>>> compatible with cpr. A message is printed at migration start time. +> +>>>>>    +https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1740667681-257312-1-git-send- +> +>>>>> email- +> +>>>>> steven.sistare@oracle.com/ +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> - Steve +> +>>>>> +> +>>>> +> +>>>> With the traces enabled + the "migration: ram block cpr blockers" +> +>>>> patch +> +>>>> applied: +> +>>>> +> +>>>> Source: +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>>>> cpr_save_fd pc.bios, id 0, fd 22 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 22 host +> +>>>>> 0x7fec18e00000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>>>> cpr_save_fd pc.rom, id 0, fd 23 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 23 host +> +>>>>> 0x7fec18c00000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>>>> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0, fd 24 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +> +>>>>> 262144 fd 24 host 0x7fec18a00000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>>>> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0, fd 25 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +> +>>>>> 67108864 fd 25 host 0x7feb77e00000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>>>> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0, fd 27 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +> +>>>>> fd 27 host 0x7fec18800000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>>>> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0, fd 28 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +> +>>>>> 67108864 fd 28 host 0x7feb73c00000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>>>> cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0, fd 34 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +> +>>>>> fd 34 host 0x7fec18600000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>>>> cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0, fd 35 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +> +>>>>> 2097152 fd 35 host 0x7fec18200000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>>>> cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0, fd 36 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +> +>>>>> fd 36 host 0x7feb8b600000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns -1 +> +>>>>> cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0, fd 37 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +> +>>>>> 37 host 0x7feb8b400000 +> +>>>>> +> +>>>>> cpr_state_save cpr-transfer mode +> +>>>>> cpr_transfer_output /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +> +>>>> +> +>>>> Target: +> +>>>>> cpr_transfer_input /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +> +>>>>> cpr_state_load cpr-transfer mode +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns 20 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 20 host +> +>>>>> 0x7fcdc9800000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns 19 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 19 host +> +>>>>> 0x7fcdc9600000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns 18 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +> +>>>>> 262144 fd 18 host 0x7fcdc9400000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns 17 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +> +>>>>> 67108864 fd 17 host 0x7fcd27e00000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns 16 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +> +>>>>> fd 16 host 0x7fcdc9200000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns 15 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +> +>>>>> 67108864 fd 15 host 0x7fcd23c00000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns 14 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +> +>>>>> fd 14 host 0x7fcdc8800000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns 13 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +> +>>>>> 2097152 fd 13 host 0x7fcdc8400000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns 11 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +> +>>>>> fd 11 host 0x7fcdc8200000 +> +>>>>> cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns 10 +> +>>>>> qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +> +>>>>> 10 host 0x7fcd3be00000 +> +>>>> +> +>>>> Looks like both vga.vram and qxl.vram are being preserved (with the +> +>>>> same +> +>>>> addresses), and no incompatible ram blocks are found during migration. +> +>>> +> +>>> Sorry, addressed are not the same, of course. However corresponding +> +>>> ram +> +>>> blocks do seem to be preserved and initialized. +> +>> +> +>> So far, I have not reproduced the guest driver failure. +> +>> +> +>> However, I have isolated places where new QEMU improperly writes to +> +>> the qxl memory regions prior to starting the guest, by mmap'ing them +> +>> readonly after cpr: +> +>> +> +>>   qemu_ram_alloc_internal() +> +>>     if (reused && (strstr(name, "qxl") || strstr("name", "vga"))) +> +>>         ram_flags |= RAM_READONLY; +> +>>     new_block = qemu_ram_alloc_from_fd(...) +> +>> +> +>> I have attached a draft fix; try it and let me know. +> +>> My console window looks fine before and after cpr, using +> +>> -vnc $hostip:0 -vga qxl +> +>> +> +>> - Steve +> +> +> +> Regarding the reproduce: when I launch the buggy version with the same +> +> options as you, i.e. "-vnc 0.0.0.0:$port -vga qxl", and do cpr-transfer, +> +> my VNC client silently hangs on the target after a while. Could it +> +> happen on your stand as well? +> +> +cpr does not preserve the vnc connection and session. To test, I specify +> +port 0 for the source VM and port 1 for the dest. When the src vnc goes +> +dormant the dest vnc becomes active. +> +Sure, I meant that VNC on the dest (on the port 1) works for a while +after the migration and then hangs, apparently after the guest QXL crash. + +> +> Could you try launching VM with +> +> "-nographic -device qxl-vga"? That way VM's serial console is given you +> +> directly in the shell, so when qxl driver crashes you're still able to +> +> inspect the kernel messages. +> +> +I have been running like that, but have not reproduced the qxl driver +> +crash, +> +and I suspect my guest image+kernel is too old. +Yes, that's probably the case. But the crash occurs on my Fedora 41 +guest with the 6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64 kernel, so newer kernels seem to +be buggy. + + +> +However, once I realized the +> +issue was post-cpr modification of qxl memory, I switched my attention +> +to the +> +fix. +> +> +> As for your patch, I can report that it doesn't resolve the issue as it +> +> is. But I was able to track down another possible memory corruption +> +> using your approach with readonly mmap'ing: +> +> +> +>> Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. +> +>> #0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +> +>> 412        d->ram->magic      = cpu_to_le32(QXL_RAM_MAGIC); +> +>> [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f1a4f83b480 (LWP 229798))] +> +>> (gdb) bt +> +>> #0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +> +>> #1 0x0000563896e7f467 in qxl_realize_common (qxl=0x5638996e0e70, +> +>> errp=0x7ffd3c2b8170) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2142 +> +>> #2 0x0000563896e7fda1 in qxl_realize_primary (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +> +>> errp=0x7ffd3c2b81d0) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2257 +> +>> #3 0x0000563896c7e8f2 in pci_qdev_realize (qdev=0x5638996e0e70, +> +>> errp=0x7ffd3c2b8250) at ../hw/pci/pci.c:2174 +> +>> #4 0x00005638970eb54b in device_set_realized (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +> +>> value=true, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:494 +> +>> #5 0x00005638970f5e14 in property_set_bool (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +> +>> v=0x5638996f3770, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", +> +>> opaque=0x5638987893d0, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +> +>>     at ../qom/object.c:2374 +> +>> #6 0x00005638970f39f8 in object_property_set (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +> +>> name=0x56389759b141 "realized", v=0x5638996f3770, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +> +>>     at ../qom/object.c:1449 +> +>> #7 0x00005638970f8586 in object_property_set_qobject +> +>> (obj=0x5638996e0e70, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", +> +>> value=0x5638996df900, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +> +>>     at ../qom/qom-qobject.c:28 +> +>> #8 0x00005638970f3d8d in object_property_set_bool +> +>> (obj=0x5638996e0e70, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", value=true, +> +>> errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +> +>>     at ../qom/object.c:1519 +> +>> #9 0x00005638970eacb0 in qdev_realize (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +> +>> bus=0x563898cf3c20, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:276 +> +>> #10 0x0000563896dba675 in qdev_device_add_from_qdict +> +>> (opts=0x5638996dfe50, from_json=false, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../ +> +>> system/qdev-monitor.c:714 +> +>> #11 0x0000563896dba721 in qdev_device_add (opts=0x563898786150, +> +>> errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at ../system/qdev-monitor.c:733 +> +>> #12 0x0000563896dc48f1 in device_init_func (opaque=0x0, +> +>> opts=0x563898786150, errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at ../system/ +> +>> vl.c:1207 +> +>> #13 0x000056389737a6cc in qemu_opts_foreach +> +>>     (list=0x563898427b60 <qemu_device_opts>, func=0x563896dc48ca +> +>> <device_init_func>, opaque=0x0, errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) +> +>>     at ../util/qemu-option.c:1135 +> +>> #14 0x0000563896dc89b5 in qemu_create_cli_devices () at ../system/ +> +>> vl.c:2745 +> +>> #15 0x0000563896dc8c00 in qmp_x_exit_preconfig (errp=0x56389855dc40 +> +>> <error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2806 +> +>> #16 0x0000563896dcb5de in qemu_init (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) +> +>> at ../system/vl.c:3838 +> +>> #17 0x0000563897297323 in main (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) at ../ +> +>> system/main.c:72 +> +> +> +> So the attached adjusted version of your patch does seem to help. At +> +> least I can't reproduce the crash on my stand. +> +> +Thanks for the stack trace; the calls to SPICE_RING_INIT in init_qxl_ram +> +are +> +definitely harmful. Try V2 of the patch, attached, which skips the lines +> +of init_qxl_ram that modify guest memory. +> +Thanks, your v2 patch does seem to prevent the crash. Would you re-send +it to the list as a proper fix? + +> +> I'm wondering, could it be useful to explicitly mark all the reused +> +> memory regions readonly upon cpr-transfer, and then make them writable +> +> back again after the migration is done? That way we will be segfaulting +> +> early on instead of debugging tricky memory corruptions. +> +> +It's a useful debugging technique, but changing protection on a large +> +memory region +> +can be too expensive for production due to TLB shootdowns. +> +> +Also, there are cases where writes are performed but the value is +> +guaranteed to +> +be the same: +> + qxl_post_load() +> +   qxl_set_mode() +> +     d->rom->mode = cpu_to_le32(modenr); +> +The value is the same because mode and shadow_rom.mode were passed in +> +vmstate +> +from old qemu. +> +There're also cases where devices' ROM might be re-initialized. E.g. +this segfault occures upon further exploration of RO mapped RAM blocks: + +> +Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. +> +#0 __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms () at +> +../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:664 +> +664 rep movsb +> +[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f6e7d08b480 (LWP 310379))] +> +(gdb) bt +> +#0 __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms () at +> +../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:664 +> +#1 0x000055aa1d030ecd in rom_set_mr (rom=0x55aa200ba380, +> +owner=0x55aa2019ac10, name=0x7fffb8272bc0 "/rom@etc/acpi/tables", ro=true) +> +at ../hw/core/loader.c:1032 +> +#2 0x000055aa1d031577 in rom_add_blob +> +(name=0x55aa1da51f13 "etc/acpi/tables", blob=0x55aa208a1070, len=131072, +> +max_len=2097152, addr=18446744073709551615, fw_file_name=0x55aa1da51f13 +> +"etc/acpi/tables", fw_callback=0x55aa1d441f59 <acpi_build_update>, +> +callback_opaque=0x55aa20ff0010, as=0x0, read_only=true) at +> +../hw/core/loader.c:1147 +> +#3 0x000055aa1cfd788d in acpi_add_rom_blob +> +(update=0x55aa1d441f59 <acpi_build_update>, opaque=0x55aa20ff0010, +> +blob=0x55aa1fc9aa00, name=0x55aa1da51f13 "etc/acpi/tables") at +> +../hw/acpi/utils.c:46 +> +#4 0x000055aa1d44213f in acpi_setup () at ../hw/i386/acpi-build.c:2720 +> +#5 0x000055aa1d434199 in pc_machine_done (notifier=0x55aa1ff15050, data=0x0) +> +at ../hw/i386/pc.c:638 +> +#6 0x000055aa1d876845 in notifier_list_notify (list=0x55aa1ea25c10 +> +<machine_init_done_notifiers>, data=0x0) at ../util/notify.c:39 +> +#7 0x000055aa1d039ee5 in qdev_machine_creation_done () at +> +../hw/core/machine.c:1749 +> +#8 0x000055aa1d2c7b3e in qemu_machine_creation_done (errp=0x55aa1ea5cc40 +> +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2779 +> +#9 0x000055aa1d2c7c7d in qmp_x_exit_preconfig (errp=0x55aa1ea5cc40 +> +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2807 +> +#10 0x000055aa1d2ca64f in qemu_init (argc=35, argv=0x7fffb82730e8) at +> +../system/vl.c:3838 +> +#11 0x000055aa1d79638c in main (argc=35, argv=0x7fffb82730e8) at +> +../system/main.c:72 +I'm not sure whether ACPI tables ROM in particular is rewritten with the +same content, but there might be cases where ROM can be read from file +system upon initialization. That is undesirable as guest kernel +certainly won't be too happy about sudden change of the device's ROM +content. + +So the issue we're dealing with here is any unwanted memory related +device initialization upon cpr. + +For now the only thing that comes to my mind is to make a test where we +put as many devices as we can into a VM, make ram blocks RO upon cpr +(and remap them as RW later after migration is done, if needed), and +catch any unwanted memory violations. As Den suggested, we might +consider adding that behaviour as a separate non-default option (or +"migrate" command flag specific to cpr-transfer), which would only be +used in the testing. + +Andrey + +On 3/6/25 16:16, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 3/5/25 11:19 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 3/5/2025 11:50 AM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 3/4/25 9:05 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 1:37 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 2/28/25 8:35 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 2/28/25 8:20 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 1:13 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 12:39 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +Hi all, + +We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently +and +have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: + +Run migration source: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +       -machine q35 \ +       -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +       -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/ +dev/shm/ +ram0,share=on\ +       -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +       -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +       -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +       -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +       -nographic \ +       -device qxl-vga +Run migration target: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +       -machine q35 \ +       -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +       -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/ +dev/shm/ +ram0,share=on\ +       -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +       -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +       -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +       -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +       -nographic \ +       -device qxl-vga \ +       -incoming tcp:0:44444 \ +       -incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": +"socket", "type": "unix", "path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +Launch the migration: +QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF +       migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer +       migrate channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr": +{"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}}, +{"channel-type":"cpr","addr": +{"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr- +dst.sock"}}] +EOF +Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing the +following messages: +[  73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +[  73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, +0x00000001) +[  73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to +allocate VRAM BO +That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1- +min_halo@163.com/T/ +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +(the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which +speeds up +the crash in the guest): +#!/bin/bash + +chvt 3 + +for j in $(seq 80); do +           echo "$(date) starting round $j" +           if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to allocate +VRAM +BO")" != "" ]; then +                   echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" +                   exit 1 +           fi +           for i in $(seq 100); do +                   dmesg > /dev/tty3 +           done +done + +echo "bug could not be reproduced" +exit 0 +The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce +that +with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the crash - +without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't +lead to +crash on the source VM. + +I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest +memory, but +rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +corruption so far. + +Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into +this? Any +suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! +Possibly some memory region created by qxl is not being preserved. +Try adding these traces to see what is preserved: + +-trace enable='*cpr*' +-trace enable='*ram_alloc*' +Also try adding this patch to see if it flags any ram blocks as not +compatible with cpr. A message is printed at migration start time. +    +https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1740667681-257312-1-git-send- +email- +steven.sistare@oracle.com/ + +- Steve +With the traces enabled + the "migration: ram block cpr blockers" +patch +applied: + +Source: +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd pc.bios, id 0, fd 22 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 22 host +0x7fec18e00000 +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd pc.rom, id 0, fd 23 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 23 host +0x7fec18c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0, fd 24 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +262144 fd 24 host 0x7fec18a00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0, fd 25 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 25 host 0x7feb77e00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0, fd 27 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +fd 27 host 0x7fec18800000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0, fd 28 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 28 host 0x7feb73c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0, fd 34 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +fd 34 host 0x7fec18600000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0, fd 35 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +2097152 fd 35 host 0x7fec18200000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0, fd 36 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +fd 36 host 0x7feb8b600000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0, fd 37 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +37 host 0x7feb8b400000 + +cpr_state_save cpr-transfer mode +cpr_transfer_output /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +Target: +cpr_transfer_input /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +cpr_state_load cpr-transfer mode +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns 20 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 20 host +0x7fcdc9800000 +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns 19 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 19 host +0x7fcdc9600000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns 18 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +262144 fd 18 host 0x7fcdc9400000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns 17 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 17 host 0x7fcd27e00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns 16 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +fd 16 host 0x7fcdc9200000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns 15 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 15 host 0x7fcd23c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns 14 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +fd 14 host 0x7fcdc8800000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns 13 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +2097152 fd 13 host 0x7fcdc8400000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns 11 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +fd 11 host 0x7fcdc8200000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns 10 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +10 host 0x7fcd3be00000 +Looks like both vga.vram and qxl.vram are being preserved (with the +same +addresses), and no incompatible ram blocks are found during migration. +Sorry, addressed are not the same, of course. However corresponding +ram +blocks do seem to be preserved and initialized. +So far, I have not reproduced the guest driver failure. + +However, I have isolated places where new QEMU improperly writes to +the qxl memory regions prior to starting the guest, by mmap'ing them +readonly after cpr: + +   qemu_ram_alloc_internal() +     if (reused && (strstr(name, "qxl") || strstr("name", "vga"))) +         ram_flags |= RAM_READONLY; +     new_block = qemu_ram_alloc_from_fd(...) + +I have attached a draft fix; try it and let me know. +My console window looks fine before and after cpr, using +-vnc $hostip:0 -vga qxl + +- Steve +Regarding the reproduce: when I launch the buggy version with the same +options as you, i.e. "-vnc 0.0.0.0:$port -vga qxl", and do cpr-transfer, +my VNC client silently hangs on the target after a while. Could it +happen on your stand as well? +cpr does not preserve the vnc connection and session. To test, I specify +port 0 for the source VM and port 1 for the dest. When the src vnc goes +dormant the dest vnc becomes active. +Sure, I meant that VNC on the dest (on the port 1) works for a while +after the migration and then hangs, apparently after the guest QXL crash. +Could you try launching VM with +"-nographic -device qxl-vga"? That way VM's serial console is given you +directly in the shell, so when qxl driver crashes you're still able to +inspect the kernel messages. +I have been running like that, but have not reproduced the qxl driver +crash, +and I suspect my guest image+kernel is too old. +Yes, that's probably the case. But the crash occurs on my Fedora 41 +guest with the 6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64 kernel, so newer kernels seem to +be buggy. +However, once I realized the +issue was post-cpr modification of qxl memory, I switched my attention +to the +fix. +As for your patch, I can report that it doesn't resolve the issue as it +is. But I was able to track down another possible memory corruption +using your approach with readonly mmap'ing: +Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. +#0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +412        d->ram->magic      = cpu_to_le32(QXL_RAM_MAGIC); +[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f1a4f83b480 (LWP 229798))] +(gdb) bt +#0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +#1 0x0000563896e7f467 in qxl_realize_common (qxl=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b8170) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2142 +#2 0x0000563896e7fda1 in qxl_realize_primary (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b81d0) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2257 +#3 0x0000563896c7e8f2 in pci_qdev_realize (qdev=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b8250) at ../hw/pci/pci.c:2174 +#4 0x00005638970eb54b in device_set_realized (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +value=true, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:494 +#5 0x00005638970f5e14 in property_set_bool (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +v=0x5638996f3770, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", +opaque=0x5638987893d0, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +     at ../qom/object.c:2374 +#6 0x00005638970f39f8 in object_property_set (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +name=0x56389759b141 "realized", v=0x5638996f3770, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +     at ../qom/object.c:1449 +#7 0x00005638970f8586 in object_property_set_qobject +(obj=0x5638996e0e70, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", +value=0x5638996df900, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +     at ../qom/qom-qobject.c:28 +#8 0x00005638970f3d8d in object_property_set_bool +(obj=0x5638996e0e70, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", value=true, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +     at ../qom/object.c:1519 +#9 0x00005638970eacb0 in qdev_realize (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +bus=0x563898cf3c20, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:276 +#10 0x0000563896dba675 in qdev_device_add_from_qdict +(opts=0x5638996dfe50, from_json=false, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../ +system/qdev-monitor.c:714 +#11 0x0000563896dba721 in qdev_device_add (opts=0x563898786150, +errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at ../system/qdev-monitor.c:733 +#12 0x0000563896dc48f1 in device_init_func (opaque=0x0, +opts=0x563898786150, errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at ../system/ +vl.c:1207 +#13 0x000056389737a6cc in qemu_opts_foreach +     (list=0x563898427b60 <qemu_device_opts>, func=0x563896dc48ca +<device_init_func>, opaque=0x0, errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) +     at ../util/qemu-option.c:1135 +#14 0x0000563896dc89b5 in qemu_create_cli_devices () at ../system/ +vl.c:2745 +#15 0x0000563896dc8c00 in qmp_x_exit_preconfig (errp=0x56389855dc40 +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2806 +#16 0x0000563896dcb5de in qemu_init (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) +at ../system/vl.c:3838 +#17 0x0000563897297323 in main (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) at ../ +system/main.c:72 +So the attached adjusted version of your patch does seem to help. At +least I can't reproduce the crash on my stand. +Thanks for the stack trace; the calls to SPICE_RING_INIT in init_qxl_ram +are +definitely harmful. Try V2 of the patch, attached, which skips the lines +of init_qxl_ram that modify guest memory. +Thanks, your v2 patch does seem to prevent the crash. Would you re-send +it to the list as a proper fix? +I'm wondering, could it be useful to explicitly mark all the reused +memory regions readonly upon cpr-transfer, and then make them writable +back again after the migration is done? That way we will be segfaulting +early on instead of debugging tricky memory corruptions. +It's a useful debugging technique, but changing protection on a large +memory region +can be too expensive for production due to TLB shootdowns. + +Also, there are cases where writes are performed but the value is +guaranteed to +be the same: +  qxl_post_load() +    qxl_set_mode() +      d->rom->mode = cpu_to_le32(modenr); +The value is the same because mode and shadow_rom.mode were passed in +vmstate +from old qemu. +There're also cases where devices' ROM might be re-initialized. E.g. +this segfault occures upon further exploration of RO mapped RAM blocks: +Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. +#0 __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms () at +../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:664 +664 rep movsb +[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f6e7d08b480 (LWP 310379))] +(gdb) bt +#0 __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms () at +../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:664 +#1 0x000055aa1d030ecd in rom_set_mr (rom=0x55aa200ba380, owner=0x55aa2019ac10, +name=0x7fffb8272bc0 "/rom@etc/acpi/tables", ro=true) + at ../hw/core/loader.c:1032 +#2 0x000055aa1d031577 in rom_add_blob + (name=0x55aa1da51f13 "etc/acpi/tables", blob=0x55aa208a1070, len=131072, max_len=2097152, +addr=18446744073709551615, fw_file_name=0x55aa1da51f13 "etc/acpi/tables", +fw_callback=0x55aa1d441f59 <acpi_build_update>, callback_opaque=0x55aa20ff0010, as=0x0, +read_only=true) at ../hw/core/loader.c:1147 +#3 0x000055aa1cfd788d in acpi_add_rom_blob + (update=0x55aa1d441f59 <acpi_build_update>, opaque=0x55aa20ff0010, +blob=0x55aa1fc9aa00, name=0x55aa1da51f13 "etc/acpi/tables") at ../hw/acpi/utils.c:46 +#4 0x000055aa1d44213f in acpi_setup () at ../hw/i386/acpi-build.c:2720 +#5 0x000055aa1d434199 in pc_machine_done (notifier=0x55aa1ff15050, data=0x0) +at ../hw/i386/pc.c:638 +#6 0x000055aa1d876845 in notifier_list_notify (list=0x55aa1ea25c10 +<machine_init_done_notifiers>, data=0x0) at ../util/notify.c:39 +#7 0x000055aa1d039ee5 in qdev_machine_creation_done () at +../hw/core/machine.c:1749 +#8 0x000055aa1d2c7b3e in qemu_machine_creation_done (errp=0x55aa1ea5cc40 +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2779 +#9 0x000055aa1d2c7c7d in qmp_x_exit_preconfig (errp=0x55aa1ea5cc40 +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2807 +#10 0x000055aa1d2ca64f in qemu_init (argc=35, argv=0x7fffb82730e8) at +../system/vl.c:3838 +#11 0x000055aa1d79638c in main (argc=35, argv=0x7fffb82730e8) at +../system/main.c:72 +I'm not sure whether ACPI tables ROM in particular is rewritten with the +same content, but there might be cases where ROM can be read from file +system upon initialization. That is undesirable as guest kernel +certainly won't be too happy about sudden change of the device's ROM +content. + +So the issue we're dealing with here is any unwanted memory related +device initialization upon cpr. + +For now the only thing that comes to my mind is to make a test where we +put as many devices as we can into a VM, make ram blocks RO upon cpr +(and remap them as RW later after migration is done, if needed), and +catch any unwanted memory violations. As Den suggested, we might +consider adding that behaviour as a separate non-default option (or +"migrate" command flag specific to cpr-transfer), which would only be +used in the testing. + +Andrey +No way. ACPI with the source must be used in the same way as BIOSes +and optional ROMs. + +Den + +On 3/6/2025 10:52 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote: +On 3/6/25 16:16, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 3/5/25 11:19 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 3/5/2025 11:50 AM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 3/4/25 9:05 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 1:37 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 2/28/25 8:35 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 2/28/25 8:20 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 1:13 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 12:39 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +Hi all, + +We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently +and +have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: + +Run migration source: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +       -machine q35 \ +       -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +       -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/ +dev/shm/ +ram0,share=on\ +       -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +       -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +       -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +       -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +       -nographic \ +       -device qxl-vga +Run migration target: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +       -machine q35 \ +       -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +       -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/ +dev/shm/ +ram0,share=on\ +       -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +       -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +       -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +       -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +       -nographic \ +       -device qxl-vga \ +       -incoming tcp:0:44444 \ +       -incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": +"socket", "type": "unix", "path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +Launch the migration: +QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF +       migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer +       migrate channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr": +{"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}}, +{"channel-type":"cpr","addr": +{"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr- +dst.sock"}}] +EOF +Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing the +following messages: +[  73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +[  73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, +0x00000001) +[  73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to +allocate VRAM BO +That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1- +min_halo@163.com/T/ +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +(the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which +speeds up +the crash in the guest): +#!/bin/bash + +chvt 3 + +for j in $(seq 80); do +           echo "$(date) starting round $j" +           if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to allocate +VRAM +BO")" != "" ]; then +                   echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" +                   exit 1 +           fi +           for i in $(seq 100); do +                   dmesg > /dev/tty3 +           done +done + +echo "bug could not be reproduced" +exit 0 +The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce +that +with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the crash - +without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't +lead to +crash on the source VM. + +I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest +memory, but +rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +corruption so far. + +Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into +this? Any +suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! +Possibly some memory region created by qxl is not being preserved. +Try adding these traces to see what is preserved: + +-trace enable='*cpr*' +-trace enable='*ram_alloc*' +Also try adding this patch to see if it flags any ram blocks as not +compatible with cpr. A message is printed at migration start time. +    +https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1740667681-257312-1-git-send- +email- +steven.sistare@oracle.com/ + +- Steve +With the traces enabled + the "migration: ram block cpr blockers" +patch +applied: + +Source: +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd pc.bios, id 0, fd 22 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 22 host +0x7fec18e00000 +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd pc.rom, id 0, fd 23 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 23 host +0x7fec18c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0, fd 24 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +262144 fd 24 host 0x7fec18a00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0, fd 25 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 25 host 0x7feb77e00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0, fd 27 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +fd 27 host 0x7fec18800000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0, fd 28 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 28 host 0x7feb73c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0, fd 34 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +fd 34 host 0x7fec18600000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0, fd 35 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +2097152 fd 35 host 0x7fec18200000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0, fd 36 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +fd 36 host 0x7feb8b600000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0, fd 37 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +37 host 0x7feb8b400000 + +cpr_state_save cpr-transfer mode +cpr_transfer_output /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +Target: +cpr_transfer_input /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +cpr_state_load cpr-transfer mode +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns 20 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 20 host +0x7fcdc9800000 +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns 19 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 19 host +0x7fcdc9600000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns 18 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +262144 fd 18 host 0x7fcdc9400000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns 17 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 17 host 0x7fcd27e00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns 16 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +fd 16 host 0x7fcdc9200000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns 15 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 15 host 0x7fcd23c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns 14 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +fd 14 host 0x7fcdc8800000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns 13 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +2097152 fd 13 host 0x7fcdc8400000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns 11 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +fd 11 host 0x7fcdc8200000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns 10 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +10 host 0x7fcd3be00000 +Looks like both vga.vram and qxl.vram are being preserved (with the +same +addresses), and no incompatible ram blocks are found during migration. +Sorry, addressed are not the same, of course. However corresponding +ram +blocks do seem to be preserved and initialized. +So far, I have not reproduced the guest driver failure. + +However, I have isolated places where new QEMU improperly writes to +the qxl memory regions prior to starting the guest, by mmap'ing them +readonly after cpr: + +   qemu_ram_alloc_internal() +     if (reused && (strstr(name, "qxl") || strstr("name", "vga"))) +         ram_flags |= RAM_READONLY; +     new_block = qemu_ram_alloc_from_fd(...) + +I have attached a draft fix; try it and let me know. +My console window looks fine before and after cpr, using +-vnc $hostip:0 -vga qxl + +- Steve +Regarding the reproduce: when I launch the buggy version with the same +options as you, i.e. "-vnc 0.0.0.0:$port -vga qxl", and do cpr-transfer, +my VNC client silently hangs on the target after a while. Could it +happen on your stand as well? +cpr does not preserve the vnc connection and session. To test, I specify +port 0 for the source VM and port 1 for the dest. When the src vnc goes +dormant the dest vnc becomes active. +Sure, I meant that VNC on the dest (on the port 1) works for a while +after the migration and then hangs, apparently after the guest QXL crash. +Could you try launching VM with +"-nographic -device qxl-vga"? That way VM's serial console is given you +directly in the shell, so when qxl driver crashes you're still able to +inspect the kernel messages. +I have been running like that, but have not reproduced the qxl driver +crash, +and I suspect my guest image+kernel is too old. +Yes, that's probably the case. But the crash occurs on my Fedora 41 +guest with the 6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64 kernel, so newer kernels seem to +be buggy. +However, once I realized the +issue was post-cpr modification of qxl memory, I switched my attention +to the +fix. +As for your patch, I can report that it doesn't resolve the issue as it +is. But I was able to track down another possible memory corruption +using your approach with readonly mmap'ing: +Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. +#0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +412        d->ram->magic      = cpu_to_le32(QXL_RAM_MAGIC); +[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f1a4f83b480 (LWP 229798))] +(gdb) bt +#0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +#1 0x0000563896e7f467 in qxl_realize_common (qxl=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b8170) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2142 +#2 0x0000563896e7fda1 in qxl_realize_primary (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b81d0) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2257 +#3 0x0000563896c7e8f2 in pci_qdev_realize (qdev=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b8250) at ../hw/pci/pci.c:2174 +#4 0x00005638970eb54b in device_set_realized (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +value=true, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:494 +#5 0x00005638970f5e14 in property_set_bool (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +v=0x5638996f3770, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", +opaque=0x5638987893d0, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +     at ../qom/object.c:2374 +#6 0x00005638970f39f8 in object_property_set (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +name=0x56389759b141 "realized", v=0x5638996f3770, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +     at ../qom/object.c:1449 +#7 0x00005638970f8586 in object_property_set_qobject +(obj=0x5638996e0e70, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", +value=0x5638996df900, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +     at ../qom/qom-qobject.c:28 +#8 0x00005638970f3d8d in object_property_set_bool +(obj=0x5638996e0e70, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", value=true, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +     at ../qom/object.c:1519 +#9 0x00005638970eacb0 in qdev_realize (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +bus=0x563898cf3c20, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:276 +#10 0x0000563896dba675 in qdev_device_add_from_qdict +(opts=0x5638996dfe50, from_json=false, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../ +system/qdev-monitor.c:714 +#11 0x0000563896dba721 in qdev_device_add (opts=0x563898786150, +errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at ../system/qdev-monitor.c:733 +#12 0x0000563896dc48f1 in device_init_func (opaque=0x0, +opts=0x563898786150, errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at ../system/ +vl.c:1207 +#13 0x000056389737a6cc in qemu_opts_foreach +     (list=0x563898427b60 <qemu_device_opts>, func=0x563896dc48ca +<device_init_func>, opaque=0x0, errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) +     at ../util/qemu-option.c:1135 +#14 0x0000563896dc89b5 in qemu_create_cli_devices () at ../system/ +vl.c:2745 +#15 0x0000563896dc8c00 in qmp_x_exit_preconfig (errp=0x56389855dc40 +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2806 +#16 0x0000563896dcb5de in qemu_init (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) +at ../system/vl.c:3838 +#17 0x0000563897297323 in main (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) at ../ +system/main.c:72 +So the attached adjusted version of your patch does seem to help. At +least I can't reproduce the crash on my stand. +Thanks for the stack trace; the calls to SPICE_RING_INIT in init_qxl_ram +are +definitely harmful. Try V2 of the patch, attached, which skips the lines +of init_qxl_ram that modify guest memory. +Thanks, your v2 patch does seem to prevent the crash. Would you re-send +it to the list as a proper fix? +Yes. Was waiting for your confirmation. +I'm wondering, could it be useful to explicitly mark all the reused +memory regions readonly upon cpr-transfer, and then make them writable +back again after the migration is done? That way we will be segfaulting +early on instead of debugging tricky memory corruptions. +It's a useful debugging technique, but changing protection on a large +memory region +can be too expensive for production due to TLB shootdowns. + +Also, there are cases where writes are performed but the value is +guaranteed to +be the same: +  qxl_post_load() +    qxl_set_mode() +      d->rom->mode = cpu_to_le32(modenr); +The value is the same because mode and shadow_rom.mode were passed in +vmstate +from old qemu. +There're also cases where devices' ROM might be re-initialized. E.g. +this segfault occures upon further exploration of RO mapped RAM blocks: +Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. +#0 __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms () at +../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:664 +664            rep    movsb +[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f6e7d08b480 (LWP 310379))] +(gdb) bt +#0 __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms () at +../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:664 +#1 0x000055aa1d030ecd in rom_set_mr (rom=0x55aa200ba380, owner=0x55aa2019ac10, +name=0x7fffb8272bc0 "/rom@etc/acpi/tables", ro=true) +    at ../hw/core/loader.c:1032 +#2 0x000055aa1d031577 in rom_add_blob +    (name=0x55aa1da51f13 "etc/acpi/tables", blob=0x55aa208a1070, len=131072, max_len=2097152, +addr=18446744073709551615, fw_file_name=0x55aa1da51f13 "etc/acpi/tables", +fw_callback=0x55aa1d441f59 <acpi_build_update>, callback_opaque=0x55aa20ff0010, as=0x0, +read_only=true) at ../hw/core/loader.c:1147 +#3 0x000055aa1cfd788d in acpi_add_rom_blob +    (update=0x55aa1d441f59 <acpi_build_update>, opaque=0x55aa20ff0010, +blob=0x55aa1fc9aa00, name=0x55aa1da51f13 "etc/acpi/tables") at ../hw/acpi/utils.c:46 +#4 0x000055aa1d44213f in acpi_setup () at ../hw/i386/acpi-build.c:2720 +#5 0x000055aa1d434199 in pc_machine_done (notifier=0x55aa1ff15050, data=0x0) +at ../hw/i386/pc.c:638 +#6 0x000055aa1d876845 in notifier_list_notify (list=0x55aa1ea25c10 +<machine_init_done_notifiers>, data=0x0) at ../util/notify.c:39 +#7 0x000055aa1d039ee5 in qdev_machine_creation_done () at +../hw/core/machine.c:1749 +#8 0x000055aa1d2c7b3e in qemu_machine_creation_done (errp=0x55aa1ea5cc40 +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2779 +#9 0x000055aa1d2c7c7d in qmp_x_exit_preconfig (errp=0x55aa1ea5cc40 +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2807 +#10 0x000055aa1d2ca64f in qemu_init (argc=35, argv=0x7fffb82730e8) at +../system/vl.c:3838 +#11 0x000055aa1d79638c in main (argc=35, argv=0x7fffb82730e8) at +../system/main.c:72 +I'm not sure whether ACPI tables ROM in particular is rewritten with the +same content, but there might be cases where ROM can be read from file +system upon initialization. That is undesirable as guest kernel +certainly won't be too happy about sudden change of the device's ROM +content. + +So the issue we're dealing with here is any unwanted memory related +device initialization upon cpr. + +For now the only thing that comes to my mind is to make a test where we +put as many devices as we can into a VM, make ram blocks RO upon cpr +(and remap them as RW later after migration is done, if needed), and +catch any unwanted memory violations. As Den suggested, we might +consider adding that behaviour as a separate non-default option (or +"migrate" command flag specific to cpr-transfer), which would only be +used in the testing. +I'll look into adding an option, but there may be too many false positives, +such as the qxl_set_mode case above. And the maintainers may object to me +eliminating the false positives by adding more CPR_IN tests, due to gratuitous +(from their POV) ugliness. + +But I will use the technique to look for more write violations. +Andrey +No way. ACPI with the source must be used in the same way as BIOSes +and optional ROMs. +Yup, its a bug. Will fix. + +- Steve + +see +1741380954-341079-1-git-send-email-steven.sistare@oracle.com +/">https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/ +1741380954-341079-1-git-send-email-steven.sistare@oracle.com +/ +- Steve + +On 3/6/2025 11:13 AM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 3/6/2025 10:52 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote: +On 3/6/25 16:16, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 3/5/25 11:19 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 3/5/2025 11:50 AM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 3/4/25 9:05 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 1:37 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 2/28/25 8:35 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +On 2/28/25 8:20 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 1:13 PM, Steven Sistare wrote: +On 2/28/2025 12:39 PM, Andrey Drobyshev wrote: +Hi all, + +We've been experimenting with cpr-transfer migration mode recently +and +have discovered the following issue with the guest QXL driver: + +Run migration source: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +       -machine q35 \ +       -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +       -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/ +dev/shm/ +ram0,share=on\ +       -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +       -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +       -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +       -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +       -nographic \ +       -device qxl-vga +Run migration target: +EMULATOR=/path/to/emulator +ROOTFS=/path/to/image +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-dst.sock +$EMULATOR -enable-kvm \ +       -machine q35 \ +       -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G \ +       -object memory-backend-file,id=ram0,size=2G,mem-path=/ +dev/shm/ +ram0,share=on\ +       -machine memory-backend=ram0 \ +       -machine aux-ram-share=on \ +       -drive file=$ROOTFS,media=disk,if=virtio \ +       -qmp unix:$QMPSOCK,server=on,wait=off \ +       -nographic \ +       -device qxl-vga \ +       -incoming tcp:0:44444 \ +       -incoming '{"channel-type": "cpr", "addr": { "transport": +"socket", "type": "unix", "path": "/var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock"}}' +Launch the migration: +QMPSHELL=/root/src/qemu/master/scripts/qmp/qmp-shell +QMPSOCK=/var/run/alma8qmp-src.sock + +$QMPSHELL -p $QMPSOCK <<EOF +       migrate-set-parameters mode=cpr-transfer +       migrate channels=[{"channel-type":"main","addr": +{"transport":"socket","type":"inet","host":"0","port":"44444"}}, +{"channel-type":"cpr","addr": +{"transport":"socket","type":"unix","path":"/var/run/alma8cpr- +dst.sock"}}] +EOF +Then, after a while, QXL guest driver on target crashes spewing the +following messages: +[  73.962002] [TTM] Buffer eviction failed +[  73.962072] qxl 0000:00:02.0: object_init failed for (3149824, +0x00000001) +[  73.962081] [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl]] *ERROR* failed to +allocate VRAM BO +That seems to be a known kernel QXL driver bug: +https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220907094423.93581-1- +min_halo@163.com/T/ +https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZTgydqRlK6WX_b29@eldamar.lan/ +(the latter discussion contains that reproduce script which +speeds up +the crash in the guest): +#!/bin/bash + +chvt 3 + +for j in $(seq 80); do +           echo "$(date) starting round $j" +           if [ "$(journalctl --boot | grep "failed to allocate +VRAM +BO")" != "" ]; then +                   echo "bug was reproduced after $j tries" +                   exit 1 +           fi +           for i in $(seq 100); do +                   dmesg > /dev/tty3 +           done +done + +echo "bug could not be reproduced" +exit 0 +The bug itself seems to remain unfixed, as I was able to reproduce +that +with Fedora 41 guest, as well as AlmaLinux 8 guest. However our +cpr-transfer code also seems to be buggy as it triggers the crash - +without the cpr-transfer migration the above reproduce doesn't +lead to +crash on the source VM. + +I suspect that, as cpr-transfer doesn't migrate the guest +memory, but +rather passes it through the memory backend object, our code might +somehow corrupt the VRAM. However, I wasn't able to trace the +corruption so far. + +Could somebody help the investigation and take a look into +this? Any +suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks! +Possibly some memory region created by qxl is not being preserved. +Try adding these traces to see what is preserved: + +-trace enable='*cpr*' +-trace enable='*ram_alloc*' +Also try adding this patch to see if it flags any ram blocks as not +compatible with cpr. A message is printed at migration start time. +    +https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1740667681-257312-1-git-send- +email- +steven.sistare@oracle.com/ + +- Steve +With the traces enabled + the "migration: ram block cpr blockers" +patch +applied: + +Source: +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd pc.bios, id 0, fd 22 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 22 host +0x7fec18e00000 +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd pc.rom, id 0, fd 23 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 23 host +0x7fec18c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0, fd 24 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +262144 fd 24 host 0x7fec18a00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0, fd 25 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 25 host 0x7feb77e00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0, fd 27 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +fd 27 host 0x7fec18800000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0, fd 28 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 28 host 0x7feb73c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0, fd 34 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +fd 34 host 0x7fec18600000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0, fd 35 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +2097152 fd 35 host 0x7fec18200000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0, fd 36 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +fd 36 host 0x7feb8b600000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns -1 +cpr_save_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0, fd 37 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +37 host 0x7feb8b400000 + +cpr_state_save cpr-transfer mode +cpr_transfer_output /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +Target: +cpr_transfer_input /var/run/alma8cpr-dst.sock +cpr_state_load cpr-transfer mode +cpr_find_fd pc.bios, id 0 returns 20 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.bios size 262144 max_size 262144 fd 20 host +0x7fcdc9800000 +cpr_find_fd pc.rom, id 0 returns 19 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared pc.rom size 131072 max_size 131072 fd 19 host +0x7fcdc9600000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom, id 0 returns 18 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:01.0/e1000e.rom size 262144 max_size +262144 fd 18 host 0x7fcdc9400000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram, id 0 returns 17 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/vga.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 17 host 0x7fcd27e00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom, id 0 returns 16 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vrom size 8192 max_size 8192 +fd 16 host 0x7fcdc9200000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram, id 0 returns 15 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.vram size 67108864 max_size +67108864 fd 15 host 0x7fcd23c00000 +cpr_find_fd 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom, id 0 returns 14 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared 0000:00:02.0/qxl.rom size 65536 max_size 65536 +fd 14 host 0x7fcdc8800000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/tables, id 0 returns 13 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/tables size 131072 max_size +2097152 fd 13 host 0x7fcdc8400000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/table-loader, id 0 returns 11 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/table-loader size 4096 max_size 65536 +fd 11 host 0x7fcdc8200000 +cpr_find_fd /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp, id 0 returns 10 +qemu_ram_alloc_shared /rom@etc/acpi/rsdp size 4096 max_size 4096 fd +10 host 0x7fcd3be00000 +Looks like both vga.vram and qxl.vram are being preserved (with the +same +addresses), and no incompatible ram blocks are found during migration. +Sorry, addressed are not the same, of course. However corresponding +ram +blocks do seem to be preserved and initialized. +So far, I have not reproduced the guest driver failure. + +However, I have isolated places where new QEMU improperly writes to +the qxl memory regions prior to starting the guest, by mmap'ing them +readonly after cpr: + +   qemu_ram_alloc_internal() +     if (reused && (strstr(name, "qxl") || strstr("name", "vga"))) +         ram_flags |= RAM_READONLY; +     new_block = qemu_ram_alloc_from_fd(...) + +I have attached a draft fix; try it and let me know. +My console window looks fine before and after cpr, using +-vnc $hostip:0 -vga qxl + +- Steve +Regarding the reproduce: when I launch the buggy version with the same +options as you, i.e. "-vnc 0.0.0.0:$port -vga qxl", and do cpr-transfer, +my VNC client silently hangs on the target after a while. Could it +happen on your stand as well? +cpr does not preserve the vnc connection and session. To test, I specify +port 0 for the source VM and port 1 for the dest. When the src vnc goes +dormant the dest vnc becomes active. +Sure, I meant that VNC on the dest (on the port 1) works for a while +after the migration and then hangs, apparently after the guest QXL crash. +Could you try launching VM with +"-nographic -device qxl-vga"? That way VM's serial console is given you +directly in the shell, so when qxl driver crashes you're still able to +inspect the kernel messages. +I have been running like that, but have not reproduced the qxl driver +crash, +and I suspect my guest image+kernel is too old. +Yes, that's probably the case. But the crash occurs on my Fedora 41 +guest with the 6.11.5-300.fc41.x86_64 kernel, so newer kernels seem to +be buggy. +However, once I realized the +issue was post-cpr modification of qxl memory, I switched my attention +to the +fix. +As for your patch, I can report that it doesn't resolve the issue as it +is. But I was able to track down another possible memory corruption +using your approach with readonly mmap'ing: +Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. +#0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +412        d->ram->magic      = cpu_to_le32(QXL_RAM_MAGIC); +[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f1a4f83b480 (LWP 229798))] +(gdb) bt +#0 init_qxl_ram (d=0x5638996e0e70) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:412 +#1 0x0000563896e7f467 in qxl_realize_common (qxl=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b8170) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2142 +#2 0x0000563896e7fda1 in qxl_realize_primary (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b81d0) at ../hw/display/qxl.c:2257 +#3 0x0000563896c7e8f2 in pci_qdev_realize (qdev=0x5638996e0e70, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b8250) at ../hw/pci/pci.c:2174 +#4 0x00005638970eb54b in device_set_realized (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +value=true, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:494 +#5 0x00005638970f5e14 in property_set_bool (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +v=0x5638996f3770, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", +opaque=0x5638987893d0, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +     at ../qom/object.c:2374 +#6 0x00005638970f39f8 in object_property_set (obj=0x5638996e0e70, +name=0x56389759b141 "realized", v=0x5638996f3770, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +     at ../qom/object.c:1449 +#7 0x00005638970f8586 in object_property_set_qobject +(obj=0x5638996e0e70, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", +value=0x5638996df900, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +     at ../qom/qom-qobject.c:28 +#8 0x00005638970f3d8d in object_property_set_bool +(obj=0x5638996e0e70, name=0x56389759b141 "realized", value=true, +errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) +     at ../qom/object.c:1519 +#9 0x00005638970eacb0 in qdev_realize (dev=0x5638996e0e70, +bus=0x563898cf3c20, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../hw/core/qdev.c:276 +#10 0x0000563896dba675 in qdev_device_add_from_qdict +(opts=0x5638996dfe50, from_json=false, errp=0x7ffd3c2b84e0) at ../ +system/qdev-monitor.c:714 +#11 0x0000563896dba721 in qdev_device_add (opts=0x563898786150, +errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at ../system/qdev-monitor.c:733 +#12 0x0000563896dc48f1 in device_init_func (opaque=0x0, +opts=0x563898786150, errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) at ../system/ +vl.c:1207 +#13 0x000056389737a6cc in qemu_opts_foreach +     (list=0x563898427b60 <qemu_device_opts>, func=0x563896dc48ca +<device_init_func>, opaque=0x0, errp=0x56389855dc40 <error_fatal>) +     at ../util/qemu-option.c:1135 +#14 0x0000563896dc89b5 in qemu_create_cli_devices () at ../system/ +vl.c:2745 +#15 0x0000563896dc8c00 in qmp_x_exit_preconfig (errp=0x56389855dc40 +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2806 +#16 0x0000563896dcb5de in qemu_init (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) +at ../system/vl.c:3838 +#17 0x0000563897297323 in main (argc=33, argv=0x7ffd3c2b8948) at ../ +system/main.c:72 +So the attached adjusted version of your patch does seem to help. At +least I can't reproduce the crash on my stand. +Thanks for the stack trace; the calls to SPICE_RING_INIT in init_qxl_ram +are +definitely harmful. Try V2 of the patch, attached, which skips the lines +of init_qxl_ram that modify guest memory. +Thanks, your v2 patch does seem to prevent the crash. Would you re-send +it to the list as a proper fix? +Yes. Was waiting for your confirmation. +I'm wondering, could it be useful to explicitly mark all the reused +memory regions readonly upon cpr-transfer, and then make them writable +back again after the migration is done? That way we will be segfaulting +early on instead of debugging tricky memory corruptions. +It's a useful debugging technique, but changing protection on a large +memory region +can be too expensive for production due to TLB shootdowns. + +Also, there are cases where writes are performed but the value is +guaranteed to +be the same: +  qxl_post_load() +    qxl_set_mode() +      d->rom->mode = cpu_to_le32(modenr); +The value is the same because mode and shadow_rom.mode were passed in +vmstate +from old qemu. +There're also cases where devices' ROM might be re-initialized. E.g. +this segfault occures upon further exploration of RO mapped RAM blocks: +Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. +#0 __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms () at +../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:664 +664            rep    movsb +[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f6e7d08b480 (LWP 310379))] +(gdb) bt +#0 __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms () at +../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:664 +#1 0x000055aa1d030ecd in rom_set_mr (rom=0x55aa200ba380, owner=0x55aa2019ac10, +name=0x7fffb8272bc0 "/rom@etc/acpi/tables", ro=true) +    at ../hw/core/loader.c:1032 +#2 0x000055aa1d031577 in rom_add_blob +    (name=0x55aa1da51f13 "etc/acpi/tables", blob=0x55aa208a1070, len=131072, max_len=2097152, +addr=18446744073709551615, fw_file_name=0x55aa1da51f13 "etc/acpi/tables", +fw_callback=0x55aa1d441f59 <acpi_build_update>, callback_opaque=0x55aa20ff0010, as=0x0, +read_only=true) at ../hw/core/loader.c:1147 +#3 0x000055aa1cfd788d in acpi_add_rom_blob +    (update=0x55aa1d441f59 <acpi_build_update>, opaque=0x55aa20ff0010, +blob=0x55aa1fc9aa00, name=0x55aa1da51f13 "etc/acpi/tables") at ../hw/acpi/utils.c:46 +#4 0x000055aa1d44213f in acpi_setup () at ../hw/i386/acpi-build.c:2720 +#5 0x000055aa1d434199 in pc_machine_done (notifier=0x55aa1ff15050, data=0x0) +at ../hw/i386/pc.c:638 +#6 0x000055aa1d876845 in notifier_list_notify (list=0x55aa1ea25c10 +<machine_init_done_notifiers>, data=0x0) at ../util/notify.c:39 +#7 0x000055aa1d039ee5 in qdev_machine_creation_done () at +../hw/core/machine.c:1749 +#8 0x000055aa1d2c7b3e in qemu_machine_creation_done (errp=0x55aa1ea5cc40 +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2779 +#9 0x000055aa1d2c7c7d in qmp_x_exit_preconfig (errp=0x55aa1ea5cc40 +<error_fatal>) at ../system/vl.c:2807 +#10 0x000055aa1d2ca64f in qemu_init (argc=35, argv=0x7fffb82730e8) at +../system/vl.c:3838 +#11 0x000055aa1d79638c in main (argc=35, argv=0x7fffb82730e8) at +../system/main.c:72 +I'm not sure whether ACPI tables ROM in particular is rewritten with the +same content, but there might be cases where ROM can be read from file +system upon initialization. That is undesirable as guest kernel +certainly won't be too happy about sudden change of the device's ROM +content. + +So the issue we're dealing with here is any unwanted memory related +device initialization upon cpr. + +For now the only thing that comes to my mind is to make a test where we +put as many devices as we can into a VM, make ram blocks RO upon cpr +(and remap them as RW later after migration is done, if needed), and +catch any unwanted memory violations. As Den suggested, we might +consider adding that behaviour as a separate non-default option (or +"migrate" command flag specific to cpr-transfer), which would only be +used in the testing. +I'll look into adding an option, but there may be too many false positives, +such as the qxl_set_mode case above. And the maintainers may object to me +eliminating the false positives by adding more CPR_IN tests, due to gratuitous +(from their POV) ugliness. + +But I will use the technique to look for more write violations. +Andrey +No way. ACPI with the source must be used in the same way as BIOSes +and optional ROMs. +Yup, its a bug. Will fix. + +- Steve + |