Re: Consultation of the patch "util: Prepare helpers for unpriv_sgio setting"

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On 03/13/2013 11:33 AM, Osier Yang wrote:
On 2013年03月13日 11:04, yuxh wrote:
To Osier Yang

Sorry for disturbing you on the working time, but I really need your help.
I met a problem when I do the virtualization test on the environment of
(Host: RHEL6.4GA. Guest: RHEL6.4GA) and it seems to have relationship
with your patch of "util: Prepare helpers for unpriv_sgio setting".

Never mind, it's the bug I produced. :(


I added a disk to virtio-scsi bus through the VM's XML file like this:
<disk type='block' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' io='threads'/>
<source dev='/mnt/test.raw'/>
<target dev='sdb' bus='scsi'/>
<shareable/>
</disk>

Then when I started the VM, I met the error.
[root@build SOURCES]# virsh start pan64ga
error: Failed to start domain pan64ga
error: Unable to get minor number of device '/mnt/test.raw': Invalid
argument

[root@build SOURCES]#

I tried other source files and other way of using if and I found:
1). If we use the files which format is raw, qed and qcow2 as the disk
this error occur again.
2). If we use partition(such as /dev/sdb1) or whole disk(such as
/dev/sdb) this error doesn't occur.
3). If we delete the "<shareable/>" then files, partition and disk all
can be used correctly.

And I investigate the error msg. it is returned by qemuGetSharedDiskKey
fuction.
char *
qemuGetSharedDiskKey(const char *disk_path)
{
...
// error occur here. return value is -22
if ((rc = virGetDeviceID(disk_path, &maj, &min)) < 0) {
virReportSystemError(-rc,
_("Unable to get minor number of device '%s'"),
disk_path);
return NULL;
}
...
}

Go on the virGetDeviceID fuction:
int
virGetDeviceID(const char *path, int *maj, int *min)
{
...

if (!S_ISBLK(sb.st_mode)) {
VIR_FREE(canonical_path);
return -EINVAL; // error occur here and it return -22
}
...
}

So the error occur place is "S_ISBLK(sb.st_mode)" and I tried compiled
the libvirt with these lines deleted and the error didn't happen again.
Also I checked the disk if VM and it worked well.
I found this fuction virGetDeviceID is come from your patch of "util:
Prepare helpers for unpriv_sgio setting". But I am not familiar with
libvirt.
So I have to consult with you about whether this "S_ISBLK" check is
vital and If we can delete it or
find out some method to avoid this error so we can use the file as
shared disk in VM.

It's fixd by https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-February/msg01024.html, which is already committed to upstream, and backported
to 6.4.z. You will see the fix in the new build, which will come soon.

Regards,
Osier
Sorry, I have tried the the libvirt's upstream code and it still have this error. According to the code, if we use "<disk type='block' device='disk'> " and "<shareable/> " to set the disk's configuration in VM's XML file, it will go through like below:

int
qemuAddSharedDisk(virQEMUDriverPtr driver,
                  virDomainDiskDefPtr disk,
                  const char *name)
{  ...
    if (!(key = qemuGetSharedDiskKey(disk->src)))
        goto cleanup;
    ...
}

char *
qemuGetSharedDiskKey(const char *disk_path)
{
    ...
    if ((rc = virGetDeviceID(disk_path, &maj, &min)) < 0) {
        virReportSystemError(-rc,
_("Unable to get minor number of device '%s'"),
                             disk_path);
        return NULL;
    }
   ...
}

int
virGetDeviceID(const char *path, int *maj, int *min)
{
    struct stat sb;

    if (stat(path, &sb) < 0)
        return -errno;

    if (!S_ISBLK(sb.st_mode))
        return -EINVAL;

    if (maj)
        *maj = major(sb.st_rdev);
    if (min)
        *min = minor(sb.st_rdev);

    return 0;
}

To make a long story short, the virGetDeviceID fuction want to get the maj and min number of the source file which we provided as the VM's disk. But the file such as /mnt/test.raw doesn't have the maj and min number. So virGetDeviceID return " -EINVAL" and qemuGetSharedDiskKey print the error message of "Unable to get minor number of device /mnt/test.raw". That's the reason the VM can't be started. So I just want to know now, if the way I used a file to act as VM's disk and set "<disk type='block' device='disk'>" , "<shareable/> " at the same time is reasonable.


Thanks
yuxh




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