When vcpu placement is "auto", the domain process will be pinned
to advisory nodeset from querying numad, While emulatorpin will
override the pinning. That means both of them are to set the
pinning policy for domain process, but conflicts with each other.
This patch ingore emulatorpin if vcpu placement is "auto", because
<vcpu> placement can't be simply ignored for <numatune> placement
could default to it.
The onlined vcpu pinning policy should inherit def->cpuset if
it's not specified explicitly, and the affinity should be set
in this case. Oppositely, the offlined vcpu pinning policy should
be free()'ed.
Various APIs use cgroup to either set or get the statistics of
host or guest. Hotplug or hot unplug new vcpus without creating
or removing the cgroup for the vcpus could cause problems for
those APIs. E.g.
% virsh vcpucount dom
maximum config 10
maximum live 10
current config 1
current live 1
% virsh setvcpu dom 2
% virsh schedinfo dom --set vcpu_quota=1000
Scheduler : posix
error: Unable to find vcpu cgroup for rhel6.2(vcpu: 1): No such file or
directory
This patch fixes the problem by creating cgroups for each of the
onlined vcpus, and destroying cgroups for each of the offlined
vcpus.
Document for <vcpu>'s "cpuset" says:
Since 0.4.4, this element can contain an optional cpuset attribute,
which is a comma-separated list of physical CPU numbers that virtual
CPUs can be pinned to.
However, it's not the truth, libvirt actually pins the domain
process to the specified pCPUs by "cpuset" of <vcpu>. And the
vcpu thread are pinned to all available pCPUs if no <vcpupin>
is specified for it.
This patch is to implement the codes to inherit <vcpu>'s "cpuset" for
vcpu that doesn't have <vcpupin> specified, and <vcpupin>
for these vcpu will be ignored when formating. Underlying
driver implementation will make sure the vcpu thread pinned
to correct pCPUs.
Setting pinning policy for vcpu which exceeds current vcpus number
just makes no sense, however, it could cause various problems, E.g.
<vcpu current='1'>4</vcpu>
<cputune>
<vcpupin vcpuid='3' cpuset='4'/>
</cputune>
% virsh start linux
error: Failed to start domain linux
error: cannot set CPU affinity on process 32534: No such process
We must have some odd codes underlying which produces the
"on process 32534", but the point is why we not to prevent
earlier when parsing? Note that this is only one of the
problem it could cause.
This patch is to ignore the <vcpupin> for not onlined vcpus.
These 3 elements conflicts with each other in either the doc
or the underlying codes.
Current problems:
Problem 1:
The doc shouldn't simply say "These settings are superseded
by CPU tuning. " for element <vcpu>. As except the tuning, <vcpu>
allows to specify the current, maxmum vcpu number. Apart from that,
<vcpu> also allows to specify the placement as "auto", which binds
the domain process to the advisory nodeset from numad.
Problem 2:
Doc for <vcpu> says its "cpuset" specify the physical CPUs
that the vcpus can be pinned. But it's not the truth, as
actually it only pin domain process to the specified physical
CPUs. So either it's a document bug, or code bug.
Problem 3:
Doc for <vcpupin> says it supersed "cpuset" of <vcpu>, it's
not quite correct, as each <vcpupin> specify the pinning policy
only for one vcpu. How about the ones which doesn't have
<vcpupin> specified? it says the vcpu will be pinned to all
available physical CPUs, but what's the meaning of attribute
"cpuset" of <vcpu> then?
Problem 4:
Doc for <emulatorpin> says it pin the emulator threads (domain
process in other context, perhaps another follow up patch to
cleanup the inconsistency is needed) to the physical CPUs
specified its attribute "cpuset". Which conflicts with
<vcpu>'s "cpuset". And actually in the underlying codes,
it set the affinity for domain process twice if both
"cpuset" for <vcpu> and <emulatorpin> are specified,
and <emulatorpin>'s pinning will override <vcpu>'s.
Problem 5:
When "placement" of <vcpu> is "auto" (I.e. uses numad to
get the advisory nodeset to which the domain process is
pinned to), it will also be overridden by <emulatorpin>,
This patch is trying to sort out the conflicts or bugs by:
1) Don't say <vcpu> is superseded by <cputune>
2) Keep the semanteme for "cpuset" of <vcpu> (I.e. Still says it
specify the physical CPUs the virtual CPUs). But modifying it
to mention it also set the pinning policy for domain process,
and the CPU placement of domain process specified by "cpuset"
of <vcpu> will be ingored if <emulatorpin> specified, and
similary, the CPU placement of vcpu thread will be ignored
if it has <vcpupin> specified, for vcpu which doesn't have
<vcpupin> specified, it inherits "cpuset" of <vcpu>.
3) Don't say <vcpu> is supersed by <vcpupin>. If neither <vcpupin>
nor "cpuset" of <vcpu> is specified, the vcpu will be pinned
to all available pCPUs.
4) If neither <emulatorpin> nor "cpuset" of <vcpu> is specified,
the domain process (emulator threads in the context) will be
pinned to all available pCPUs.
5) If "placement" of <vcpu> is "auto", <emulatorpin> is not allowed.
6) hotplugged vcpus will also inherit "cpuset" of <vcpu>
Codes changes according to above document changes:
1) Inherit def->cpumask for each vcpu which doesn't have <vcpupin>
specified, during parsing.
2) ping the vcpu which doesn't have <vcpupin> specified to def->cpumask
either by cgroup for sched_setaffinity(2), which is actually done
by 1).
3) Error out if "placement" == "auto", and <emulatorpin> is specified.
Otherwise, <emulatorpin> is honored, and "cpuset" of <cpuset> is
ignored.
4) Setup cgroup for each hotplugged vcpu, and setup the pinning policy
by either cgroup or sched_setaffinity(2).
5) Remove cgroup and <vcpupin> for each hot unplugged vcpu.
Patches are following (6 in total except this patch)
- Add the XML header so vim gives us syntax highlighting
- polkit-policy-file-validate hasn't existed for 3 years
- Permissions comment was not accurate
Libssh2 transport support was enabled lately but the spec file wasn't
updated to take this into account. This caused libvirt to be built
without libssh2 support in Red Hat based OSes.
We are currently able to work only with non-translated SELinux
contexts, but we are using functions that work with translated
contexts throughout the code. This patch swaps all SELinux context
translation relative calls with their raw sisters to avoid parsing
problems.
The problems can be experienced with mcstrans for example. The
difference is that if you have translations enabled (yum install
mcstrans; service mcstrans start), fgetfilecon_raw() will get you
something like 'system_u:object_r:virt_image_t:s0', whereas
fgetfilecon() will return 'system_u:object_r:virt_image_t:SystemLow'
that we cannot parse.
I was trying to confirm that the _raw variants were here since the dawn of
time, but the only thing I see now is that it was imported together in
the upstream repo [1] from svn, so before 2008.
Thanks Laurent Bigonville for finding this out.
[1] http://oss.tresys.com/git/selinux.git
When startupPolicy set for a USB devices allows such device to be
missing, there was no way this could be detected from domain XML. With
this patch, libvirt emits a new missing='yes' attribute for such devices
when active domain XML is generated.
The comment stated that you may call qemuDomainObjBeginJobWithDriver
without passing qemud_driver to signal it's not locked.
qemuDomainObjBeginJobWithDriver still accesses the qemud_driver
structure and the lock singaling is done through a separate parameter.
Save/restore with passed through USB devices currently only works if the
USB device can be found at the same USB address where it used to be
before saving a domain. This makes sense in case a user explicitly
configure the USB address in domain XML. However, if the device was
found automatically by vendor/product identification, we should try to
search for that device when restoring the domain and use any device we
find as long as there is only one available. In other words, the USB
device can now be removed and plugged again or the host can be rebooted
between saving and restoring the domain.
Using VIR_DOMAIN_XML_MIGRATABLE flag, one can request domain's XML
configuration that is suitable for migration or save/restore. Such XML
may contain extra run-time stuff internal to libvirt and some default
configuration may be removed for better compatibility of the XML with
older libvirt releases.
This flag may serve as an easy way to get the XML that can be passed
(after desired modifications) to APIs that accept custom XMLs, such as
virDomainMigrate{,ToURI}2 or virDomainSaveFlags.
All USB device lookup functions emit an error when they cannot find the
requested device. With this patch, their caller can choose if a missing
device is an error or normal condition.
The code which looks up a USB device specified by hostdev is duplicated
in two places. This patch creates a dedicated function that can be
called in both places.
USB devices can disappear without OS being mad about it, which makes
them ideal for startupPolicy. With this attribute, USB devices can be
configured to be mandatory (the default), requisite (will disappear
during migration if they cannot be found), or completely optional.
While the changes to sanlock driver should be stable, the actual
implementation of sanlock_helper is supposed to be replaced in the
future. However, before we can implement a better sanlock_helper, we
need an administrative interface to libvirtd so that the helper can just
pass a "leases lost" event to the particular libvirt driver and
everything else will be taken care of internally. This approach will
also allow libvirt to pass such event to applications and use
appropriate reasons when changing domain states.
The temporary implementation handles all actions directly by calling
appropriate libvirt APIs (which among other things means that it needs
to know the credentials required to connect to libvirtd).
While current on_{poweroff,reboot,crash} action configuration is about
configuring life cycle actions, they can all be considered events and
actions that need to be done on a particular event. Let's generalize the
code by renaming life cycle actions to event actions so that it can be
reused later for non-lifecycle events.
Done with:
sed -i -e "s/no pool with matching uuid/no storage pool with matching uuid/g" src/storage/storage_driver.c
sed -i -e 's/"%s", _("no storage pool with matching uuid")/_("no storage pool with matching uuid %s"), obj->uuid/g' src/storage/storage_driver.c
sed -i -e 's/"%s", _("storage pool is not active")/_("storage pool '%s' is not active"), pool->def->name/g' src/storage/storage_driver.c
And a couple fixups before, during, and after, and a manual inspection
pass to make sure nothing was wonky.
When adding variants of parameter setting APIs which accepted
flags, the existing APIs were all adapted internally to pass
VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_CURRENT to the new API. The QEMU impl
qemuSetSchedularParameters was an exception, which instead
used VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_LIVE. Change this to match other
compatibility scenarios, so that calling
virDomainSetSchedularParameters(dom, params, nparams);
Has the same semantics as
virDomainSetSchedularParametersFlags(dom, params, nparams, 0);
And
virDomainSetSchedularParametersFlags(dom, params, nparams, VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_CURRENT);
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Currently virNetSocketNew fails because virSetCloseExec fails as there
is no proper implementation for it on Windows at the moment. Workaround
this by pretending that setting close-on-exec on the fd works. This can
be done because libvirt currently lacks the ability to create child
processes on Windows anyway. So there is no point in failing to set a
flag that isn't useful at the moment anyway.
Traverse the whole inheritance hierarchy for dynamic dispatch as it is
already done for the dynamic cast.
Also make AnyType cast errors more verbose.
Reported by Ata Bohra.
Add support to check if a specific interface is active by supporting the
following API function in the udev based virInterface backend:
* virConnectInterfaceIsActive()
All other backends for virInterface or other HVs implementations of
virInterface list their own names for the name instead of the generic
'Interface' value. This does the same for the netcf based backend.
Also, report any errors during registration.
Add a read-only udev based backend for virInterface. Useful for distros
that do not have netcf support yet. Multiple libvirt based utilities use
a HAL based fallback when virInterface is not available which is less
than ideal. This implements:
* virConnectNumOfInterfaces()
* virConnectListInterfaces()
* virConnectNumOfDefinedInterfaces()
* virConnectListDefinedInterfaces()
* virConnectListAllInterfaces()
* virConnectInterfaceLookupByName()
* virConnectInterfaceLookupByMACString()
The code was reporting raw exit status without decoding it into
normal vs. signal exit. virCommandRun already does this, but
with a different error type, so all we have to do is recast
the error to the correct type.
Reported by li guang.
* src/util/hooks.c (virHookCall): Simplify.
As a side effect of changes in the functions virGetUserID and
virGetGroupID, the user and group configurations for DAC in qemu.conf
are now able to accept both names and IDs, supporting a leading plus
sign to ensure that a numeric value will not be interpreted as a name.
This patch updates the comments in qemu.conf, including a description of
this new behavior.
With the recent introduction of QMP capabilities probing, libvirt failed
to detect support for QXL graphics in QEMU 1.2 and newer. In addition to
fixing that, this patch also causes libvirt to detect QXL support for
qemu-kvm-0.13.0, which doesn't advertise it in -help output but mentions
it in device list. Since qemu-kvm-0.13.0 supported -spice, it looks like
not having qxl in -help was a bug.
I was using qemu-monitor-command during development, and found it quite
hard to use. Compare the results of this patch on ease of reading:
$ virsh qemu-monitor-command dom '{"execute":"query-version"}'
{"return":{"qemu":{"micro":1,"minor":12,"major":0},"package":"(qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2)"},"id":"libvirt-7683"}
$ virsh qemu-monitor-command --pretty dom '{"execute":"query-version"}'
{
"return": {
"qemu": {
"micro": 1,
"minor": 12,
"major": 0
},
"package": "(qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2)"
},
"id": "libvirt-7674"
}
* tools/virsh-host.c (cmdQemuMonitorCommand): New option.
* tools/virsh.pod (qemu-monitor-command): Document it.
The functions virGetUserID and virGetGroupID are now able to parse
user/group names and IDs in a similar way to coreutils' chown. So, user
and group parsing in security_dac can be simplified.
This patch updates virGetUserID and virGetGroupID to be able to parse a
user or group name in a similar way to coreutils' chown. This means that
a numeric value with a leading plus sign is always parsed as an ID,
otherwise the functions try to parse the input first as a user or group
name and if this fails they try to parse it as an ID.
This patch includes Peter Krempa's changes to correctly handle errors
returned by getpwnam_r and getgrnam_r.
curl_global_init is not thread-safe. curl_easy_init might call
curl_global_init when it was no called before. But curl_easy_init
can be called from different threads by the ESX driver. Therefore,
call curl_global_init from virInitialize to stop curl_easy_init from
calling it.
Reported by Benjamin Wang.
When both kvmclock and kvm_pv_eoi are configured (either disabled or
enabled) libvirt will generate invalid CPU specification due to the
fact that even though kvmclock causes the CPU to be specified, it
doesn't set have_cpu flag to true (and the new kvm_pv_eoi as well).
This patch fixes the issue and adds a test exactly for that to show
that it is fixed correctly (and also to keep it that way in the future
of course).
