Bug 1582418 – virsh capabilities reports invalid values for 4K pages [rhel-7.5.z]

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Bug 1582418 - virsh capabilities reports invalid values for 4K pages [rhel-7.5.z]

Summary:	virsh capabilities reports invalid values for 4K pages [rhel-7.5.z]

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	libvirt (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	7.4
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	high Severity high
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Michal Privoznik
QA Contact:	Jing Qi
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Keywords:	Upstream, ZStream

Depends On:	1569678
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Reported:	2018-05-25 03:21 EDT by Oneata Mircea Teodor
Modified:	2018-06-26 12:56 EDT (History)
CC List:	12 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	libvirt-3.9.0-14.el7_5.6
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	The "virsh capabilities" command previously displayed an inaccurate number of 4 KiB memory pages on systems with very large amounts of memory. This update optimizes the memory diagnostic mechanism to ensure memory page numbers are displayed correctly on such systems.
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Clone Of:	1569678
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Last Closed:	2018-06-26 12:55:29 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1997	None	None	None	2018-06-26 12:56 EDT

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Description Oneata Mircea Teodor 2018-05-25 03:21:11 EDT

This bug has been copied from bug #1569678 and has been proposed to be backported to 7.5 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 3 Michal Privoznik 2018-05-25 08:50:40 EDT

To POST:

http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhvirt-patches/2018-May/msg00790.html

Scratch build:

https://brewweb.engineering.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=16461622

Comment 5 Jing Qi 2018-06-07 22:36:47 EDT

With libvirt-3.9.0-14.virtcov.el7_5.6.x86_64 version, enable 1G hugepages in  RHEL7.5 system and config 1G hugepages counts for numa cells and run below commands. The values are correct.
#virsh capabilities 
<topology>
      <cells num='8'>
        <cell id='0'>
          <memory unit='KiB'>16742068</memory>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='4'>1039789</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='2048'>0</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='1048576'>12</pages>
          <distances>
            <sibling id='0' value='10'/>
            ...
          </distances>
          <cpus num='8'>
            <cpu id='0' socket_id='0' core_id='0' siblings='0,4'/>
            ...
          </cpus>
        </cell>
        <cell id='1'>
          <memory unit='KiB'>16777216</memory>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='4'>524288</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='2048'>0</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='1048576'>14</pages>
          ....
         
         <cell id='2'>
          <memory unit='KiB'>16777216</memory>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='4'>4194304</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='2048'>0</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='1048576'>0</pages>
          ....
         <cell id='3'>
          <memory unit='KiB'>16777216</memory>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='4'>524288</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='2048'>0</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='1048576'>14</pages>
          ...
          <cell id='4'>
          <memory unit='KiB'>16777216</memory>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='4'>4194304</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='2048'>0</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='1048576'>0</pages>
         ....
         <cell id='5'>
          <memory unit='KiB'>16777216</memory>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='4'>524288</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='2048'>0</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='1048576'>14</pages>
          ....
         <cell id='6'>
          <memory unit='KiB'>16777216</memory>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='4'>524288</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='2048'>0</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='1048576'>14</pages>
           ....
         <cell id='7'>
          <memory unit='KiB'>16760828</memory>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='4'>782335</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='2048'>0</pages>
          <pages unit='KiB' size='1048576'>13</pages>

 # virsh freepages --all
Node 0:
4KiB: 869199
2048KiB: 0
1048576KiB: 12

Node 1:
4KiB: 430137
2048KiB: 0
1048576KiB: 14

Node 2:
4KiB: 4072669
2048KiB: 0
1048576KiB: 0

Node 3:
4KiB: 430401
2048KiB: 0
1048576KiB: 14

Node 4:
4KiB: 4073071
2048KiB: 0
1048576KiB: 0

Node 5:
4KiB: 430404
2048KiB: 0
1048576KiB: 14

Node 6:
4KiB: 428752
2048KiB: 0
1048576KiB: 14

Node 7:
4KiB: 633198
2048KiB: 0
1048576KiB: 13

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-06-26 12:55:29 EDT

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1997

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