We are driving hypervisors on FC21 with qemu 2.1.3. Once a month one of our VM crashes. Thus we activated writing of cores and found the issue to be the following call stack. #0 0x00007f0805cf5877 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007f0805cf6f68 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x00007f0805cee7d6 in __assert_fail_base () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #3 0x00007f0805cee882 in __assert_fail () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #4 0x00007f0810da7a38 in bdrv_error_action (bs=<optimized out>, action=action@entry=BLOCK_ERROR_ACTION_STOP, is_read=is_read@entry=true, error=error@entry=-1701061243) at block.c:3598 #5 0x00007f0810b7ac6a in virtio_blk_handle_rw_error (req=req@entry=0x7f08164668a0, error=error@entry=-1701061243, is_read=true) at /usr/src/debug/qemu-2.1.3/hw/block/virtio-blk.c:81 #6 0x00007f0810b7ad2a in virtio_blk_rw_complete (opaque=0x7f08164668a0, ret=1701061243) at /usr/src/debug/qemu-2.1.3/hw/block/virtio-blk.c:94 #7 0x00007f0810d9fa1e in bdrv_co_em_bh (opaque=0x7f07ec002e70) at block.c:4685 #8 0x00007f0810d9c1c7 in aio_bh_poll (ctx=ctx@entry=0x7f0812d79600) at async.c:82 #9 0x00007f0810daa416 in aio_poll (ctx=0x7f0812d79600, blocking=blocking@entry=false) at aio-posix.c:215 #10 0x00007f0810d9c050 in aio_ctx_dispatch (source=<optimized out>, callback=<optimized out>, user_data=<optimized out>) at async.c:212 #11 0x00007f080ef552a6 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #12 0x00007f0810da8fb8 in glib_pollfds_poll () at main-loop.c:190 #13 os_host_main_loop_wait (timeout=<optimized out>) at main-loop.c:235 #14 main_loop_wait (nonblocking=<optimized out>) at main-loop.c:484 #15 0x00007f0810b3276e in main_loop () at vl.c:2008 #16 main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, envp=<optimized out>) at vl.c:4540 After searching Redhat documentation I saw https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1459913 that perfectly matches our problem. Se the very error return value. It mentions BZ 1142857 that I have no access to. Maybe someone could give me a hint how this can be fixed. What would be most important is to check if FC22 might show the same symptoms. If yes this bug should track the inclusion of fixes into qemu versions of both releases.
Just to be precise: VMs are affected randomly - so not only a single VM.
bug 1142857 is supposed to be fixed by this commit: commit 3bbf572345c65813f86a8fc434ea1b23beb08e16 Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini> Date: Wed Jun 3 14:21:20 2015 +0200 atomics: add explicit compiler fence in __atomic memory barriers Which is lacking in f21 and f22. FYI though F21 is end-of-life in a month...
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qemu-2.3.1-8.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-686f289aa5
qemu-2.3.1-8.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with $ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update qemu' You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-686f289aa5
Update is in stable now