fix: relaunch Cloud Hypervisor at guest reset - #921
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Observe CH reset events through an owned per-child socketpair and shut down the VMM after the guest reaches reset. The existing host relaunch then consumes reboot intent, so a later container exit terminates fcvm normally. Retain monitor join ownership across cancellation and reap the child before reporting monitor failure. Place the mandatory reboot regression in Host-Root CI, provision CH there, and remove the CH builder's shallow-clone flag. Verified VM and lifecycle regressions red/green/revert-red. Final four-test batch and make lint pass. Default-feature test selection excludes CH only with the privileged-tests gate.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 1 included review per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughCloud Hypervisor reboot events now trigger VMM shutdown and relaunch. Monitor cleanup covers VMM lifecycle operations. Setup targets and privileged tests provision and validate this path. ChangesCloud Hypervisor reboot handling
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CloudHypervisorBackend
participant CloudHypervisor
participant reboot_monitor
participant fcvm_run_vm_loop
CloudHypervisorBackend->>CloudHypervisor: pass --event-monitor fd
CloudHypervisor-->>reboot_monitor: send vm/rebooting event
reboot_monitor->>CloudHypervisor: call shutdown_vmm()
CloudHypervisor-->>fcvm_run_vm_loop: terminate VMM process
fcvm_run_vm_loop->>CloudHypervisorBackend: relaunch VMM
Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The reboot path’s normal shutdown cleanup uses the cancellation-safe reap flow, and reboot tests now reject missing machine-id baselines. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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setup-cloud-hypervisor ran ./target/release/fcvm without holding the target generation lease, so a concurrent make could repoint the target link under it. makefile_leases_every_raw_target_access failed on it in every Host, Host-Root and Container job. The target now declares `private SHELL := $(TARGET_LEASE_SHELL)`, as setup-default and setup-fcvm do. test_cloud_hypervisor_reboot_recovers_and_then_exits is compiled under privileged-tests, the feature _test-root enables, and fails at find_cloud_hypervisor() when the backend is absent. fcvm setup does not build Cloud Hypervisor, so make test-root failed on a clean box, and CI passed only because it ran setup-cloud-hypervisor as a separate step. test-root now depends on setup-cloud-hypervisor and that CI step is removed. CH setup is content-addressed, so the second test-root pass in SnapshotEnabled mode skips the build. test_root_provisions_the_cloud_hypervisor_its_reboot_test_requires pins the prerequisite. Red on the unfixed tree: 2 tests run: 0 passed, 2 failed Green with the fix: 2 tests run: 2 passed Red again with the Makefile fix reverted: 2 tests run: 0 passed, 2 failed test_documented_make_targets, test_cargo_target_link, test_ci_workflow_coverage: 102 tests run: 102 passed (test_cargo_target_link 62, test_ci_workflow_coverage 23, test_documented_make_targets 17) make lint: exit 0 (cargo-deny: advisories ok, bans ok, licenses ok, sources ok)
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NOT-A-DEFECT: neither remaining PR-level body carries an unanswered defect claim.
Codex review body (2026-09-08, on 93dce2b8). It wraps the one suggestion Codex made, the P2 inline thread "Provision Cloud Hypervisor for local root tests". That finding was real and is closed in its thread as RED-VERIFIED: test_root_provisions_the_cloud_hypervisor_its_reboot_test_requires, fixed in 6e1945af, where test-root now depends on setup-cloud-hypervisor. The body says nothing beyond that thread.
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make test-unit, three affected binaries: 102 tests run: 102 passed
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fcvm's vm.create memory config carried no `thp` field, and CH defaults it to true, which madvises guest RAM MADV_HUGEPAGE. Hosts run `defrag=madvise`, so each guest fault on that memory may compact synchronously in the VMM's own thread. On 6e1945a, Host-Root-arm64-SnapshotEnabled failed on its second test-root pass only. Between 14:45 and 14:53 (pidstat): - every cloud-hypervisor process ran at 100-180% of a core, all %system - kcompactd0 sat at 94-100%; khugepaged ran, which it does only for madvised memory - firecracker processes averaged 4.4% system, the same as pass 1 - the host was 86% idle (sar) Effects: test_cloud_hypervisor_cold_boot hit the 30 s vm.boot timeout, then reached fc-agent at 150 s of guest uptime (1.4 s on main); test_cloud_hypervisor_reboot_recovers_and_then_exits reached fc-agent at 94 s; the snapshot_roundtrip clone's file restore took 183 s against 11 s on pass 1. Same CH binary as main (cloud-hypervisor-6bb88929652f.bin). The memory config now sends `thp: false`. Firecracker guest RAM is not madvised either. vm_config_opts_guest_memory_out_of_transparent_hugepages serializes the vm.create payload and requires memory.thp == false. Red on the unfixed tree: left: Null, right: Bool(false) Green with the fix: 1 test run: 1 passed Red again, fix reverted: left: Null, right: Bool(false) One 1 GiB CH VM per build on an unfragmented arm64 host, guest RAM mapping from /proc/<ch>/smaps: pre-fix: VmFlags has hg, THPeligible 1, AnonHugePages 530432 kB, thp_fault_alloc +259 fixed: no hg, THPeligible 0, AnonHugePages 0 kB, thp_fault_alloc +0 That host has free 2 MB blocks, so this shows the madvise, not the stall; the stall needs CI's second pass. make test-root FILTER="-E 'test(/test_cloud_hypervisor/)'": 3 tests run: 3 passed (cold_boot 3.8 s, reboot 9.4 s, snapshot_roundtrip 16.4 s) make test-unit FILTER="-E 'test(/cloud_hypervisor/)'": 11 tests run: 11 passed make lint: exit 0
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setup-cloud-hypervisor runs `fcvm setup --cloud-hypervisor`, which writes under /mnt/fcvm-btrfs, but depended only on `build`. Under `make -j test-root` it is a sibling of setup-fcvm, which reaches setup-btrfs only through setup-default, so on a host that is not btrfs it could write into the bare directory before setup-btrfs mounts the loopback over it (CodeRabbit on #921). Every other target that runs `fcvm setup` already reaches setup-btrfs. setup-cloud-hypervisor now depends on it directly. targets_that_run_fcvm_setup_mount_the_assets_store_first parses the Makefile's rules and recipes and requires setup-btrfs among the transitive prerequisites of every target whose recipe runs `fcvm setup` (excluding --generate-config, which writes the user's config, and `_` targets, which run inside the container their wrapper starts). Red on the unfixed tree: 1 test run: 0 passed, 1 failed Green with the fix: 1 test run: 1 passed Red again, fix reverted: 1 test run: 0 passed, 1 failed test_documented_make_targets: 18 tests run: 18 passed make lint: exit 0
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RED-VERIFIED: targets_that_run_fcvm_setup_mount_the_assets_store_first. CodeRabbit's review of e8416429 carried one actionable comment, the Makefile:683 thread: setup-cloud-hypervisor could run before setup-btrfs under make -j. It is fixed in fb907481 and closed in that thread with the same test, observed red on the unfixed tree, green with the fix, and red again with the fix reverted.
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31-33: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRequire a valid pre-reboot machine ID.
exec_in_vmreturns an error when the guest command exits unsuccessfully or times out.unwrap_or_default()converts that error into an empty baseline. Any non-empty post-reboot ID then satisfies the regeneration check. Reject an empty baseline and propagate the read error.Proposed fix
let mid_before = common::exec_in_vm(pid, &["cat", "/etc/machine-id"]) .await - .unwrap_or_default(); + .context("reading machine-id before reboot")?; + anyhow::ensure!( + !mid_before.trim().is_empty(), + "machine-id before reboot must not be empty" + );🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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…essed reboot_and_assert_relaunch read /etc/machine-id before the reboot with unwrap_or_default(), so a failed or timed-out read left an empty baseline. The recovery loop then accepted any non-empty machine-id as regenerated, including one read from a VM that never rebooted, and the Cloud Hypervisor reboot test's identity check could pass on nothing (CodeRabbit on #921). test_vm_reboot_preserves_disk_dir_writes carried the same read and the same comparison, so both sites now share one fix: - Each pre-reboot read propagates its error and must return a non-empty id. - Both recovery loops call machine_id_regenerated(before, after), which is false for an empty or blank baseline, an empty result, or an unchanged id. a_regenerated_machine_id_needs_a_real_baseline pins the comparison. Red, comparison as it was: 1 test run: 0 passed, 1 failed ("an empty pre-reboot machine-id witnesses nothing") Green, with the fix: 1 test run: 1 passed Red again, helper reverted: 1 test run: 0 passed, 1 failed make test-root FILTER="-E 'binary(test_reboot)'": 5 tests run: 5 passed (test_cloud_hypervisor_reboot_recovers_and_then_exits 9.6 s, test_vm_reboot_preserves_disk_dir_writes 13.5 s, test_vm_reboot_comes_back_healthy_and_preserves_work 14.1 s, test_restored_clone_reboot_comes_back_healthy 16.7 s) make lint: exit 0
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RED-VERIFIED: a_regenerated_machine_id_needs_a_real_baseline (tests/test_reboot.rs). CodeRabbit's review of fb907481 carried one comment outside the diff: reboot_and_assert_relaunch read the pre-reboot machine-id with unwrap_or_default(), so a failed read left an empty baseline and any later machine-id counted as regenerated. Fixed in 23dce046: the read propagates its error and must be non-empty, and the comparison machine_id_regenerated rejects an empty or blank baseline. The test failed with the comparison as it was, passes with the fix, and fails again with the fix reverted.
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Closes #709.
Cloud Hypervisor reboots the guest without exiting its VMM process. fcvm's reboot intent then survives until a later container exit, which is incorrectly treated as another reboot.
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vm/rebooting. The existing host relaunch consumes the reboot intent.privileged-tests.make test-rootprovisions CH through itssetup-cloud-hypervisorprerequisite, so local root runs and Host-Root CI take the same path. There is no runtime skip or container-setup expansion.setup-cloud-hypervisorlike the other setup targets, so a concurrent make cannot repoint the target link while it runs./target/release/fcvm.The guest's vsock notification is early shutdown intent. CH emits
vm/rebootingwhen handling the actual guest reset, so normal shutdown/writeback is not interrupted by the early notification. There are no Firecracker changes or new clone-reboot support.Verification
Observed locally before rebasing:
cloud-hypervisor v52.0-46-g5c25d82f5.make _test-root FILTER="-p fcvm --lib --test test_reboot -E 'test(/reboot_monitor_/) | test(=test_cloud_hypervisor_reboot_recovers_and_then_exits)' --retries 0" STREAM=1 make lintThe rebase onto merged main changed no patch content: both heads have stable patch ID
2a8f12d6b740954a14d2cb1916e2a6ef12a3675a.make lintpassed on final head93dce2b8405cd1e634a456619e944fc749a869b8.The attempted final-head local rerun was blocked before test execution because the release binary and VM assets are now absent. The three unit tests and real VM test were not rerun after rebase. The config guard was not bypassed, and no VM environment or kernel was rebuilt. Final-head runtime signal from provisioned CI is required before merge.
The five-file diff has been reviewed locally. It is independent of held VNCR PR #920 and contains only this reboot fix, its tests, and the narrow provisioning changes above.
Follow-up commit: lease and local provisioning
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93dce2b8ran the CH reboot regression on both architectures and it passed (test_cloud_hypervisor_reboot_recovers_and_then_exits ... okin Host-Root-x64-SnapshotEnabled and Host-Root-arm64-SnapshotEnabled). Every Host, Host-Root and Container job failed on one test instead,makefile_leases_every_raw_target_access, because the newsetup-cloud-hypervisorrecipe ran./target/release/fcvmwithout the target generation lease.A Codex finding also held:
make test-rootenablesprivileged-tests, so the CH test runs locally, but nothing on that path built CH. CI passed only because it ransetup-cloud-hypervisoras a separate step.6e1945afleases the target, makestest-rootdepend on it, and removes the now-redundant CI step. CH setup is content-addressed, so the secondtest-rootpass in SnapshotEnabled mode skips the build.test_root_provisions_the_cloud_hypervisor_its_reboot_test_requirespins the prerequisite.Follow-up commit: Cloud Hypervisor guest memory without transparent hugepages
6e1945afpassed every job except Host-Root-arm64-SnapshotEnabled, which failed on its secondtest-rootpass only. That is the first run on this PR wheremake test-rootprovisions CH on both passes, so the CH tests ran for real twice.test_cloud_hypervisor_cold_boot:vm.boottimed out after 30 s; the retry reached fc-agent at 150 s of guest uptime (1.4 s on main, same job).test_cloud_hypervisor_reboot_recovers_and_then_exits: the guest reached fc-agent at 94 s of uptime and the test failed both tries.test_cloud_hypervisor_snapshot_roundtrippassed, but its clone's file restore took 183 s against 11 s on pass 1.pidstat for 14:45 to 14:53 on that runner:
sar showed the host 86% idle. The CH binary was the same as main's (
cloud-hypervisor-6bb88929652f.bin); the fork branch last moved 2026-05-22.fcvm's
vm.creatememory config carried nothpfield. CH defaults it to true and then callsmadvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE)on guest RAM (memory_manager.rs). Hosts rundefrag=madvise, so each fault on that memory may compact synchronously in the VMM's own thread, and khugepaged only works on madvised memory. Firecracker guest RAM is not madvised, which is why its processes were unaffected. Ruled out: the new event socket (CH's monitor thread blocks onrecv()and ignores write errors), a changed CH binary, and leftovers from pass 1 (its reboot test exited 0 and cleaned up; the post-suite guard found no stray processes).The memory config now sends
thp: false.vm_config_opts_guest_memory_out_of_transparent_hugepagesserializes thevm.createpayload and requiresmemory.thp == false.One 1 GiB CH VM per build on an unfragmented arm64 host, guest RAM mapping from
/proc/<ch>/smaps:hgThat host has free 2 MB blocks, so it shows the madvise, not the stall. The stall is checked by this commit's CI second pass.
Follow-up commit: setup-cloud-hypervisor waits for the assets-store mount
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e8416429found thatsetup-cloud-hypervisordepended only onbuild, althoughfcvm setup --cloud-hypervisorwrites under/mnt/fcvm-btrfs. Undermake -j test-rootit is a sibling ofsetup-fcvm, which reachessetup-btrfsonly throughsetup-default, so on a host that is not btrfs it could write into the bare directory before the loopback is mounted over it. Every other target that runsfcvm setupalready reachessetup-btrfs.fb907481adds the prerequisite.targets_that_run_fcvm_setup_mount_the_assets_store_firstrequiressetup-btrfsamong the transitive prerequisites of every target whose recipe runsfcvm setup(not--generate-config, which writes the user's config, and not_targets, which run inside the container their wrapper starts).CI on
e8416429also lost Host-arm64 before any build step:Install dependenciesfailed withE: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 3180 (apt), 74 s after its runner launched. That is a boot-time apt race on fresh self-hosted runners, not this change, and it is fixed separately.Follow-up commit: a reboot is witnessed only against a real machine-id
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fb907481found thatreboot_and_assert_relaunchread the pre-reboot machine-id withunwrap_or_default(). A failed or timed-out read left an empty baseline, and the recovery loop then accepted any non-empty machine-id as regenerated, including one read from a VM that never rebooted.test_cloud_hypervisor_reboot_recovers_and_then_exitsrelies on that helper, so its identity check could pass on nothing.test_vm_reboot_preserves_disk_dir_writeshad the same read and the same comparison, so both sites now share one fix:machine_id_regenerated(before, after), which is false for an empty or blank baseline, an empty result, or an unchanged id.a_regenerated_machine_id_needs_a_real_baselinepins the comparison.Summary by CodeRabbit
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