If, once the kernel has booted, we try to remove a memory
hotplugged while the kernel was not started, QEMU crashes on
an assert:
qemu-system-ppc64: hw/virtio/vhost.c:651:
vhost_commit: Assertion `r >= 0' failed.
...
#4 in vhost_commit
#5 in memory_region_transaction_commit
#6 in pc_dimm_memory_unplug
#7 in spapr_memory_unplug
#8 spapr_machine_device_unplug
#9 in hotplug_handler_unplug
#10 in spapr_lmb_release
#11 in detach
#12 in set_allocation_state
#13 in rtas_set_indicator
...
If we take a closer look to the guest kernel log, we can see when
we try to unplug the memory:
pseries-hotplug-mem: Attempting to hot-add 4 LMB(s)
What happens:
1- The kernel has ignored the memory hotplug event because
it was not started when it was generated.
2- When we hot-unplug the memory,
QEMU starts to remove the memory,
generates an hot-unplug event,
and signals the kernel of the incoming new event
3- as the kernel is started, on the QEMU signal, it reads
the event list, decodes the hotplug event and tries to
finish the hotplugging.
4- QEMU receive the the hotplug notification while it
is trying to hot-unplug the memory. This moves the memory
DRC to an invalid state
This patch prevents this by not allowing to set the allocation
state to USABLE while the DRC is awaiting release.
RHBZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1432382
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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