Bug 678558
| Summary: | virtio_console driver never returns from selecting for write when the queue is full [rhel-6.0.z] | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | amit.shah, bcao, chayang, dhoward, hdegoede, mjenner, plyons, pm-eus, virt-maint |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | kernel-2.6.32-71.19.1.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: |
Using a virtio serial port from an application, filling it until the write command returns -EAGAIN and then executing a select command for the write command, caused the select command to not return any values when using the virtio serial port in a non-blocking mode. When used in blocking mode, the write command waited until the host indicated it had used up the buffers. This was due to the fact that the poll operation waited for the port->waitqueue pointer; however, nothing woke the waitqueue when there was room again in the queue. With this update, the queue is woken via host notifications so that buffers consumed by the host can be reclaimed, the queue freed, and the application write operations may proceed again.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-04-08 02:59:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 643750 | ||
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Description
RHEL Program Management
2011-02-18 12:28:19 UTC
Reproduced on rhel6.0 with kernel 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64.
Steps:
1. boot a guest with virtio-serial-port
2. open the socket with follwing script
# pythonh open-socket.py /tmp/charsoc
# cat open-socket
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import sys
import socket
import time
#fd = os.open(sys.argv[1], os.O_RDONLY)
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX)
s.connect(sys.argv[1])
while 1:
# do nothing
time.sleep(1)
#python open-socket /tmp/vport0
3. transfer a file(>2G) via virtio-serial
Actual Result:
guest freezes, cannot respond to keyboard.
CLI:
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M rhel6.0.0 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name rhel6.0 -uuid `uuidgen` -rtc base=utc -boot c -drive file=/root/RHEL-Server-6.0-64.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2 -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 -netdev tap,id=hostnet0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:3f:de:3b -device virtio-serial-pci -chardev socket,path=/tmp/charsoc,id=channel0,server,nowait -device virtserialport,chardev=channel0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input1 -vnc :0 -monitor stdio
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Verified on host kernel kernel-2.6.32-71.23.1.el6.x86_64.rpm with same steps&CLI above, when transferring large file from guest to host via virtio-serial, guest keeps alive and can interrupt cat process.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0421.html
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New Contents:
Using a virtio serial port from an application, filling it until the write command returns -EAGAIN and then executing a select command for the write command, caused the select command to not return any values when using the virtio serial port in a non-blocking mode. When used in blocking mode, the write command waited until the host indicated it had used up the buffers. This was due to the fact that the poll operation waited for the port->waitqueue pointer; however, nothing woke the waitqueue when there was room again in the queue. With this update, the queue is woken via host notifications so that buffers consumed by the host can be reclaimed, the queue freed, and the application write operations may proceed again.
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