On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Vangelis Tasoulas <vange...@simula.no> wrote: > I am trying to detach an Infiniband SR-IOV Virtual Function with active > communication (perftest ib_send_bw --rdma_cm is running) from a Virtual > Machine, with the intention to eventually migrate it. > > The problem in short (more details below): > What fails is that in the detach process, the code execution hangs in line > wait_for_completion(&uverbs_dev->comp);
This is design shortage of that portion of the IB stack, facts are known. If you have nicely behaving user space apps that use librdmacm and responds to device removal event, it works, else not. > called from the ib_uverbs_remove_one() function located in file > drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c and the VF cannot be detached. How can > I find what's holding the uverbs from being removed? > > -------- > > In more detail: > > I use Mellanox OFED distribution which supports SR-IOV > (MLNX_OFED_LINUX-2.0-3.0.0-rhel6.4-x86_64) and my code changes all take > place in kernel and userspace drivers of the virtual machine itself (nothing > is changed in the drivers installed in the hypervisor), as I want to make > the detach transparent to the user application. > > A similar work by Wei Lin Guay has solved this problem as described in this > presentation (found here: > https://www.openfabrics.org/ofa-documents/presentations/doc_download/526-prototyping-live-migration-with-sr-iov-supported-infiniband.html), > but following the same logic doesn't seem to work when I try to implement > his ideas in the latest drivers. > > My programming logic: > 1. When a userspace app using Infiniband starts, it registers it's PID to > the Kernel > 2. When the pci hotplug asks for device removal, the kernel sends a signal > to the registered PIDs in the userspace > 3. The userspace library libmlx4 calls the > - ibv_destroy_qp() for all active QPs. > - rdma_destroy_event_channel() for the existing rdma event channels. > - ibv_close_device() for the active uverbs devices. > > Eventually I do not see any rdma_cm or uverbs0 file descriptors under > /proc/PID/fd/ on the virtual machine, the device is not visible in the lspci > command output, but it's still there in the ibstat command output. However, > the device cannot be detached (and consequently migrate) until I kill the > application manually by sending a SIGINT to it (ctrl+C). > For the moment I don't care if the connection is broken (from the > application point of view). > > Any advice is highly appreciated on how to find what's holding the uverbs > which will enable a successful detach of the SR-IOV VF. > > Thank you. > > This is the Kernel Call Trace that I get after 120 seconds of waiting > without killing the application manually: > INFO: task kacpi_hotplug:26 blocked for more than 120 seconds. > "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. > kacpi_hotplug D 0000000000000000 0 26 2 0x00000000 > ffff88011de179b0 0000000000000046 ffff88011fe7fe00 0000000000000000 > ffff88011de17970 ffffffff81338ac0 ffff88011de17970 0000000000000012 > ffff88011de0e5f8 ffff88011de17fd8 000000000000fb88 ffff88011de0e5f8 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff81338ac0>] ? vt_console_print+0x260/0x330 > [<ffffffff8106e585>] ? __call_console_drivers+0x75/0x90 > [<ffffffff8150efa5>] schedule_timeout+0x215/0x2e0 > [<ffffffff8106f341>] ? vprintk+0x251/0x560 > [<ffffffff8150ec23>] wait_for_common+0x123/0x180 > [<ffffffff81063410>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 > [<ffffffff8150ed3d>] wait_for_completion+0x1d/0x20 > [<ffffffffa0157125>] ib_uverbs_remove_one+0x85/0xb0 [ib_uverbs] > [<ffffffffa016acdf>] ib_unregister_device+0x4f/0x100 [ib_core] > [<ffffffffa0197be9>] mlx4_ib_remove+0x69/0x210 [mlx4_ib] > [<ffffffffa0128de1>] mlx4_remove_device+0x71/0x90 [mlx4_core] > [<ffffffffa0128e4b>] mlx4_unregister_device+0x4b/0xb0 [mlx4_core] > [<ffffffffa012ab74>] mlx4_remove_one+0x94/0x360 [mlx4_core] > [<ffffffff8109cfc5>] ? __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x65/0x80 > [<ffffffff8129a4d7>] pci_device_remove+0x37/0x70 > [<ffffffff8135ef3f>] __device_release_driver+0x6f/0xe0 > [<ffffffff8135f0ad>] device_release_driver+0x2d/0x40 > [<ffffffff8135e293>] bus_remove_device+0xa3/0x100 > [<ffffffff8135bf3d>] device_del+0x12d/0x1e0 > [<ffffffff8135c012>] device_unregister+0x22/0x60 > [<ffffffff81293754>] pci_stop_bus_device+0x94/0xa0 > [<ffffffff812ab31a>] acpiphp_disable_slot+0x9a/0x1d0 > [<ffffffff812abd9d>] _handle_hotplug_event_func+0xed/0x1d0 > [<ffffffff8109708e>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x4e/0x80 > [<ffffffff812abcb0>] ? _handle_hotplug_event_func+0x0/0x1d0 > [<ffffffff81090be0>] worker_thread+0x170/0x2a0 > [<ffffffff81096da0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 > [<ffffffff81090a70>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x2a0 > [<ffffffff81096a36>] kthread+0x96/0xa0 > [<ffffffff8100c0ca>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 > [<ffffffff810969a0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0 > [<ffffffff8100c0c0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 > > Regards, > Vangelis > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
