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Rom Freiman

2014-Jan-16 21:25 UTC

Re: [Libguestfs] Double fault panic in L2 upon v2v conversion

Thanks Richard for a fast reply.

Yes, indeed, im working on a nested environment. I try to run v2v inside a
VM (L1) and to create an L2 by the conversion process. And on Intel. As I
wrote, it fails once in few times, mainly when there is a memory pressure
on L0.

Kashyap, can you please share your experience? Why should it crash during
nested conversion. I'm not too familiar with libguestfs logic - maybe you
can point for me, according to the logs, at what stage of the conversion
the failure happens.

Thanks,
Rom


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones@redhat.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 04:35:29PM +0200, Rom Freiman wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > Wanted to hear your opinion and to receive a smart advice.
> >
> > I'm trying to use virt-v2v in order to convert ova image (exported
from
> > vcenter) to run on libvirt/kvm - all this inside a VM of fedora.
> > The converted image is also a fedora.
> > During the conversion process, in some point of libguestfs activity, I
> get
> > double fault panic from L2 (printed as part of libguest output) and
the
> > conversion process fails - no errors appear neither in L0 not in L1
> message
> > logs.
>
> Are you using nested KVM?
>
> Kashyap (CC'd) has done a lot of testing on nested KVM on *Intel*,
> never with satisfactory results.  It just doesn't work very well.
>
> On AMD is a different story -- nested KVM just works.
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
> http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
> Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and
> build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported.
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW
>

Richard W.M. Jones

2014-Jan-16 21:45 UTC

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Re: [Libguestfs] Double fault panic in L2 upon v2v conversion

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:25:10PM +0200, Rom Freiman
wrote:> Thanks Richard for a fast reply.
> 
> Yes, indeed, im working on a nested environment. I try to run v2v inside a
> VM (L1) and to create an L2 by the conversion process. And on Intel. As I
> wrote, it fails once in few times, mainly when there is a memory pressure
> on L0.
Just to confirm, the 'nested' flag is enabled on the L0 kvm_intel.ko
module?

If not enabled, libguestfs will use TCG which -- while not exactly
perfect -- will usually run the appliance OK albeit slowly.

Rich.

-- 
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virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines.  Tiny program with many
powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc.
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Rom Freiman

2014-Jan-16 21:52 UTC

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Re: [Libguestfs] Double fault panic in L2 upon v2v conversion

Enabled. I'm playing the real game ;)


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Richard W.M. Jones
<rjones@redhat.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:25:10PM +0200, Rom Freiman wrote:
> > Thanks Richard for a fast reply.
> >
> > Yes, indeed, im working on a nested environment. I try to run v2v
inside
> a
> > VM (L1) and to create an L2 by the conversion process. And on Intel.
As I
> > wrote, it fails once in few times, mainly when there is a memory
pressure
> > on L0.
>
> Just to confirm, the 'nested' flag is enabled on the L0
kvm_intel.ko
> module?
>
> If not enabled, libguestfs will use TCG which -- while not exactly
> perfect -- will usually run the appliance OK albeit slowly.
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
> http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
> virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines.  Tiny program with many
> powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc.
> http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top
>

Richard W.M. Jones

2014-Jan-17 13:58 UTC

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Re: [Libguestfs] Double fault panic in L2 upon v2v conversion

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:25:10PM +0200, Rom Freiman
wrote:> Thanks Richard for a fast reply.
> 
> Yes, indeed, im working on a nested environment. I try to run v2v inside a
> VM (L1) and to create an L2 by the conversion process. And on Intel. As I
> wrote, it fails once in few times, mainly when there is a memory pressure
> on L0.
> 
> Kashyap, can you please share your experience? Why should it crash during
> nested conversion. I'm not too familiar with libguestfs logic - maybe
you
> can point for me, according to the logs, at what stage of the conversion
> the failure happens.
I can make a general comment here: libguestfs relies on KVM/qemu/etc
being reliable.  If KVM/qemu/etc is broken, then libguestfs isn't
going to work.

If you can't disable nested KVM and don't want to fix it, then you
have two other options:

(1) Patch libguestfs to force qemu to use TCG:

In src/launch-direct.c:
  if (qemu_supports (g, data, "-machine")) {
    ADD_CMDLINE ("-machine");
-   ADD_CMDLINE ("accel=kvm:tcg");
+   ADD_CMDLINE ("accel=tcg");
  } else {

(2) Take a look at the UML backend for libguestfs:

http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#user-mode-linux-backend

Rich.

-- 
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Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and
build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported.
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Richard W.M. Jones

2014-Jan-17 14:39 UTC

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Re: [Libguestfs] Double fault panic in L2 upon v2v conversion

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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Rom Freiman
wrote:> How do you know that the problem is with KVM/QEMU and not with libguestfs?
The guestfsd daemon is simply running the regular 'mount' command.
The mount command causes the kernel to panic.  There should be no
circumstances where running an ordinary command like that, albeit as
root, should cause the kernel to panic.  Unless the kernel (or in this
case, something underneath the kernel) is broken.

mount -o ro /dev/sdb /sysroot/
[   12.645305] PANIC: double fault, error_code: 0x0
[   12.645305] CPU: 0 PID: 141 Comm: mount Not tainted 
3.11.8-200.strato0002.fc19.strato.c3850ae03e9d.x86_64 #1  
[   12.645305] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[   12.645305] task: ffff88001cc816e0 ti: ffff88001cde6000 task.ti:
ffff88001cde6000
[   12.645305] RIP: 0033:[<00007fa602c5b99b>]  [<00007fa602c5b99b>]
0x7fa602c5b99a  
[   12.645305] RSP: 002b:00007fff4f5884a0  EFLAGS: 00010216
[   12.645305] RAX: 00007fa602008ff8 RBX: 00007fa601ff0000 RCX: 00007fa601ff0000
[   12.645305] RDX: 00000000003b7068 RSI: 00007fff4f588560 RDI: 00007fa601ff3d18
[   12.645305] RBP: 00007fff4f5885d0 R08: 00007fa60200f310 R09: 0000000000000000
[   12.645305] R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 00007fa60200f310 R12: 00007fa60200e9b0
[   12.645305] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007fa602e6e990
[   12.645305] FS:  00007fa602e69880(0000) GS:ffff88001f000000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[   12.645305] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[   12.645305] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000001d7fb000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[   12.645305]
[   12.645305] Kernel panic - not syncing: Machine halted.
[   12.645305] CPU: 0 PID: 141 Comm: mount Not tainted
3.11.8-200.strato0002.fc19.strato.c3850ae03e9d.x86_64 #1
[   12.645305] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[   12.645305]  ffff88001f005f58 ffff88001f005e90 ffffffff8164024b
ffffffff819e89dc
[   12.645305]  ffff88001f005f08 ffffffff8163c272 0000000000000008
ffff88001f005f18
[   12.645305]  ffff88001f005eb8 ffffffff8163c8e5 0000000000000046
00000000000000b1
[   12.645305] Call Trace:
[   12.645305]  <#DF>  [<ffffffff8164024b>] dump_stack+0x45/0x56
[   12.645305]  [<ffffffff8163c272>] panic+0xc8/0x1d7
[   12.645305]  [<ffffffff8163c8e5>] ? printk+0x67/0x69
[   12.645305]  [<ffffffff81048ae1>] df_debug+0x31/0x40
[   12.645305]  [<ffffffff810132ed>] do_double_fault+0x5d/0x80
[   12.645305]  [<ffffffff81650b88>] double_fault+0x28/0x30
[   12.645305]  <<EOE>>

Rich.

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Rom Freiman

2014-Jan-17 15:06 UTC

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Re: [Libguestfs] Double fault panic in L2 upon v2v conversion

Kashyap, just to be sure - it happens to you during the v2v
conversion? on L2? While L1 and L0 works fine afterwords, right?

Thanks

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
wrote:> On 01/17/2014 03:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Rom Freiman wrote:
>>> How do you know that the problem is with KVM/QEMU and not with
libguestfs?
>>
>> The guestfsd daemon is simply running the regular 'mount'
command.
>> The mount command causes the kernel to panic.  There should be no
>> circumstances where running an ordinary command like that, albeit as
>> root, should cause the kernel to panic.  Unless the kernel (or in this
>> case, something underneath the kernel) is broken.
>>
>> mount -o ro /dev/sdb /sysroot/
>> [   12.645305] PANIC: double fault, error_code: 0x0
>> [   12.645305] CPU: 0 PID: 141 Comm: mount Not tainted
>> 3.11.8-200.strato0002.fc19.strato.c3850ae03e9d.x86_64 #1
>> [   12.645305] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
>> [   12.645305] task: ffff88001cc816e0 ti: ffff88001cde6000 task.ti:
>> ffff88001cde6000
>> [   12.645305] RIP: 0033:[<00007fa602c5b99b>] 
[<00007fa602c5b99b>]
>> 0x7fa602c5b99a
>> [   12.645305] RSP: 002b:00007fff4f5884a0  EFLAGS: 00010216
>> [   12.645305] RAX: 00007fa602008ff8 RBX: 00007fa601ff0000 RCX:
00007fa601ff0000
>> [   12.645305] RDX: 00000000003b7068 RSI: 00007fff4f588560 RDI:
00007fa601ff3d18
>> [   12.645305] RBP: 00007fff4f5885d0 R08: 00007fa60200f310 R09:
0000000000000000
>> [   12.645305] R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 00007fa60200f310 R12:
00007fa60200e9b0
>> [   12.645305] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15:
00007fa602e6e990
>> [   12.645305] FS:  00007fa602e69880(0000) GS:ffff88001f000000(0000)
>> knlGS:0000000000000000
>> [   12.645305] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
>> [   12.645305] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000001d7fb000 CR4:
00000000000006f0
>> [   12.645305]
>> [   12.645305] Kernel panic - not syncing: Machine halted.
>> [   12.645305] CPU: 0 PID: 141 Comm: mount Not tainted
>> 3.11.8-200.strato0002.fc19.strato.c3850ae03e9d.x86_64 #1
>> [   12.645305] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
>> [   12.645305]  ffff88001f005f58 ffff88001f005e90 ffffffff8164024b
>> ffffffff819e89dc
>> [   12.645305]  ffff88001f005f08 ffffffff8163c272 0000000000000008
>> ffff88001f005f18
>> [   12.645305]  ffff88001f005eb8 ffffffff8163c8e5 0000000000000046
>> 00000000000000b1
>> [   12.645305] Call Trace:
>> [   12.645305]  <#DF>  [<ffffffff8164024b>]
dump_stack+0x45/0x56
>> [   12.645305]  [<ffffffff8163c272>] panic+0xc8/0x1d7
>> [   12.645305]  [<ffffffff8163c8e5>] ? printk+0x67/0x69
>> [   12.645305]  [<ffffffff81048ae1>] df_debug+0x31/0x40
>> [   12.645305]  [<ffffffff810132ed>] do_double_fault+0x5d/0x80
>> [   12.645305]  [<ffffffff81650b88>] double_fault+0x28/0x30
>> [   12.645305]  <<EOE>>
>
> Correct.
>
> I encountered this same double_fault panic a week ago:
>
>
>
http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/temp/double-fault-panic-nested-kvm-environment.txt
>
> With these versions:
>
>   $ uname -r ; rpm -q libvirt qemu-system-x86
>   3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64
>   libvirt-1.1.3.1-2.fc20.x86_64
>   qemu-system-x86-1.6.1-2.fc20.x86_64
>
> When I briefly discussed this double fault panic with Paolo Bonzini (KVM
> maintainer), he mentioned it is probably a host hypervisor bug. But this
> needs more investigation (ftrace for nested guest, x86info in L1 and L2
> - if possible).
>
>
> Answering Rom's earlier question ("Kashyap, can you please share
your
> experience?"): Yes, ested virtualization with KVM and Intel is not
> *really* the most stable, but there's on going work upstream to improve
> this and fix bbugs.
>
> Refer these recent bugs I filed while in a nested KVM environment:
>
>   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67761
>   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68051
>   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67751
>
>
>
> --
> /kashyap

Rom Freiman

2014-Jan-18 22:01 UTC

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Re: [Libguestfs] Double fault panic in L2 upon v2v conversion

Hey everybody,
Richard, you were right. I managed to reproduce the same crash without
dealing with v2v (and libguestfs).
Actually - it's reproducible really ease - I write a big file to /tmp
on L0 (till it 100% full) and then run a L2 VM. Almost every time it
crushes with double fault.
Debugging, debugging and more debugging.

Marcelo/Paolo, if you have any clue, I would like to hear from you.

Thanks,
Rom

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Rom Freiman <rom@stratoscale.com>
wrote:> Kashyap, just to be sure - it happens to you during the v2v
> conversion? on L2? While L1 and L0 works fine afterwords, right?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy
<kchamart@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 01/17/2014 03:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Rom Freiman wrote:
>>>> How do you know that the problem is with KVM/QEMU and not with
libguestfs?
>>>
>>> The guestfsd daemon is simply running the regular 'mount'
command.
>>> The mount command causes the kernel to panic.  There should be no
>>> circumstances where running an ordinary command like that, albeit
as
>>> root, should cause the kernel to panic.  Unless the kernel (or in
this
>>> case, something underneath the kernel) is broken.
>>>
>>> mount -o ro /dev/sdb /sysroot/
>>> [   12.645305] PANIC: double fault, error_code: 0x0
>>> [   12.645305] CPU: 0 PID: 141 Comm: mount Not tainted
>>> 3.11.8-200.strato0002.fc19.strato.c3850ae03e9d.x86_64 #1
>>> [   12.645305] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
>>> [   12.645305] task: ffff88001cc816e0 ti: ffff88001cde6000 task.ti:
>>> ffff88001cde6000
>>> [   12.645305] RIP: 0033:[<00007fa602c5b99b>] 
[<00007fa602c5b99b>]
>>> 0x7fa602c5b99a
>>> [   12.645305] RSP: 002b:00007fff4f5884a0  EFLAGS: 00010216
>>> [   12.645305] RAX: 00007fa602008ff8 RBX: 00007fa601ff0000 RCX:
00007fa601ff0000
>>> [   12.645305] RDX: 00000000003b7068 RSI: 00007fff4f588560 RDI:
00007fa601ff3d18
>>> [   12.645305] RBP: 00007fff4f5885d0 R08: 00007fa60200f310 R09:
0000000000000000
>>> [   12.645305] R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 00007fa60200f310 R12:
00007fa60200e9b0
>>> [   12.645305] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15:
00007fa602e6e990
>>> [   12.645305] FS:  00007fa602e69880(0000)
GS:ffff88001f000000(0000)
>>> knlGS:0000000000000000
>>> [   12.645305] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
>>> [   12.645305] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000001d7fb000 CR4:
00000000000006f0
>>> [   12.645305]
>>> [   12.645305] Kernel panic - not syncing: Machine halted.
>>> [   12.645305] CPU: 0 PID: 141 Comm: mount Not tainted
>>> 3.11.8-200.strato0002.fc19.strato.c3850ae03e9d.x86_64 #1
>>> [   12.645305] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
>>> [   12.645305]  ffff88001f005f58 ffff88001f005e90 ffffffff8164024b
>>> ffffffff819e89dc
>>> [   12.645305]  ffff88001f005f08 ffffffff8163c272 0000000000000008
>>> ffff88001f005f18
>>> [   12.645305]  ffff88001f005eb8 ffffffff8163c8e5 0000000000000046
>>> 00000000000000b1
>>> [   12.645305] Call Trace:
>>> [   12.645305]  <#DF>  [<ffffffff8164024b>]
dump_stack+0x45/0x56
>>> [   12.645305]  [<ffffffff8163c272>] panic+0xc8/0x1d7
>>> [   12.645305]  [<ffffffff8163c8e5>] ? printk+0x67/0x69
>>> [   12.645305]  [<ffffffff81048ae1>] df_debug+0x31/0x40
>>> [   12.645305]  [<ffffffff810132ed>]
do_double_fault+0x5d/0x80
>>> [   12.645305]  [<ffffffff81650b88>] double_fault+0x28/0x30
>>> [   12.645305]  <<EOE>>
>>
>> Correct.
>>
>> I encountered this same double_fault panic a week ago:
>>
>>
>>
http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/temp/double-fault-panic-nested-kvm-environment.txt
>>
>> With these versions:
>>
>>   $ uname -r ; rpm -q libvirt qemu-system-x86
>>   3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64
>>   libvirt-1.1.3.1-2.fc20.x86_64
>>   qemu-system-x86-1.6.1-2.fc20.x86_64
>>
>> When I briefly discussed this double fault panic with Paolo Bonzini
(KVM
>> maintainer), he mentioned it is probably a host hypervisor bug. But
this
>> needs more investigation (ftrace for nested guest, x86info in L1 and L2
>> - if possible).
>>
>>
>> Answering Rom's earlier question ("Kashyap, can you please
share your
>> experience?"): Yes, ested virtualization with KVM and Intel is not
>> *really* the most stable, but there's on going work upstream to
improve
>> this and fix bbugs.
>>
>> Refer these recent bugs I filed while in a nested KVM environment:
>>
>>   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67761
>>   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68051
>>   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67751
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> /kashyap

Kashyap Chamarthy

2014-Jan-21 15:38 UTC

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Re: [Libguestfs] Double fault panic in L2 upon v2v conversion

On 01/17/2014 04:06 PM, Rom Freiman wrote:> Kashyap, just to be sure - it happens to you during the v2v
> conversion? on L2? 
I haven't done any v2v conversions in L2 (or at any other level).


PS: Sorry, I didn't notice my previous 2 emails didn't go to the list,
that wasn't intended. Rich, you bounce them here, if you prefer (instead
of me clumsily forwarding them).

-- 
/kashyap

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