opensuse 11.2 guest hangs after live migration with clocksource=kvm-clock

[Peter Lieven]

i would like to debug a problem that I encountered some time ago with opensuse 11.2 and also
with Ubuntu (karmic/lucid).

If I run an opensuse guest 64-bit and do not touch the clocksource settings the guest almost
everytime hangs after live migration at:

(gdb) thread apply all bt

Thread 2 (Thread 0x7f846782a950 (LWP 27356)):
#0 0x00007f8467d24cd7 in ioctl () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x000000000042b945 in kvm_run (env=0x2468170)
  at /usr/src/qemu-kvm-0.12.4/qemu-kvm.c:921
#2 0x000000000042cea2 in kvm_cpu_exec (env=0x2468170)
  at /usr/src/qemu-kvm-0.12.4/qemu-kvm.c:1651
#3 0x000000000042d62c in kvm_main_loop_cpu (env=0x2468170)
  at /usr/src/qemu-kvm-0.12.4/qemu-kvm.c:1893
#4 0x000000000042d76d in ap_main_loop (_env=0x2468170)
  at /usr/src/qemu-kvm-0.12.4/qemu-kvm.c:1943
#5 0x00007f8468caa3ba in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#6 0x00007f8467d2cfcd in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f84692d96f0 (LWP 27353)):
#0 0x00007f8467d25742 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x000000000040c25a in main_loop_wait (timeout=1000)
  at /usr/src/qemu-kvm-0.12.4/vl.c:3994
#2 0x000000000042dcf1 in kvm_main_loop ()
  at /usr/src/qemu-kvm-0.12.4/qemu-kvm.c:2126
#3 0x000000000040c98c in main_loop () at /usr/src/qemu-kvm-0.12.4/vl.c:4212
#4 0x000000000041054b in main (argc=31, argv=0x7fffa91351c8,
  envp=0x7fffa91352c8) at /usr/src/qemu-kvm-0.12.4/vl.c:6252

If I run the same guest with kernel parameter clocksource=acpi_pm, the migration succeeds reliably.

The hosts runs:
/kernel: /2.6.33.3, /bin: /qemu-kvm-0.12.4, /mod: /2.6.33.3

I invoke qemu-kvm with:
/usr/bin/qemu-kvm-0.12.4 -net none -drive file=/dev/sdb,if=ide,boot=on,cache=none,aio=native -m 1024 -cpu qemu64,model_id='Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz' -monitor tcp:0:4001,server,nowait -vnc :1 -name 'test' -boot order=dc,menu=on -k de -pidfile /var/run/qemu/vm-149.pid -mem-path /hugepages -mem-prealloc -rtc base=utc,clock=vm -usb -usbdevice tablet

The Guest is:
OpenSuse 11.2 64-bit with Kernel 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 x86_64
The clocksource automatically choosen is kvm-clock.

Feedback appreciated. I have observed the same problem with 0.12.2 and also with old binaries provided by Ubuntu Karmic (kvm-88).

[Peter Lieven (plieven)]

Update:

Problem still exists with lastest GIT. Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 64-bit guests are also affected.

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

This bug ticket is quite old already ... can you still reproduce this issue with the latest version of QEMU?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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