Re: [PATCH] fix detach disk device failed with device not found

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On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 12:29:05 +0800, long.yunjian@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Long YunJian <long.yunjian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> We detach windows disk with libvirt-python api dom.detachDeviceFlags(xmlstr,3),
> but files in windows disk is opened and busy, and libvirt return success.
> We found disk not detached actually.

Note that this is expected and documented behaviour as device unplug
requires cooperation with the guest OS:

   Beware that depending on the hypervisor and device type, detaching a
   device from a running domain may be asynchronous. That is, calling
   virDomainDetachDeviceFlags may just request device removal while the
   device is actually removed later (in cooperation with a guest OS).
   Previously, this fact was ignored and the device could have been
   removed from domain configuration before it was actually removed by
   the hypervisor causing various failures on subsequent operations. To
   check whether the device was successfully removed, either recheck
   domain configuration using virDomainGetXMLDesc() or add a handler for
   the VIR_DOMAIN_EVENT_ID_DEVICE_REMOVED event. In case the device is
   already gone when virDomainDetachDeviceFlags returns, the event is
   delivered before this API call ends. To help existing clients work
   better in most cases, this API will try to transform an asynchronous
   device removal that finishes shortly after the request into a
   synchronous removal. In other words, this API may wait a bit for the
   removal to complete in case it was not synchronous.

https://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt-domain.html#virDomainDetachDeviceFlags


> so, we close files those opened in windows,
> and want to detach again. However, we failed with device not found but disk is
> exist actually.

Okay, so reading the code reveals the real problem. You are using _LIVE
and _CONFIG flags together, in which case the persistent definition is
already removed, thus produces failure.

In case your application cares about these advanced scenarios you'll
need to handle the update of the presistent definition separately from
the update of _CONFIG in the handler for
VIR_DOMAIN_EVENT_ID_DEVICE_REMOVED, or implement the retry without the
_CONFIG flag if it fails.

Reallistically due to backwards compatibility reasons we can't afford to
change the behaviour of the device removal in this case.

In case you'd be still wanting to get a more sane behaviour of
virDomainDetachDeviceFlags which removes the persistent (_CONFIG)
definition only after the _LIVE is detached this mode would require a
new flag to initiate it.

The new mode would then need to record which definition to remove as the
actual removal of the _LIVE device can happen at any point in the
future, and even can be fully ignored. This also means that the
information needed to remove the _CONFIG bit would need to be recorded
to the status XML to persist it across libvirtd/virtqemud restarts.

Also this would need to be implemented for all devices and not just
disks to be an acceptable patch as well as not actually atempt to remove
the device and then return it back reconstructed from the XML the user
passed as that may be incomplete.
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