HV_VSS(4) | Device Drivers Manual | HV_VSS(4) |
NAME¶
hv_vss
— Hyper-V
Volume Shadow Copy Service API
SYNOPSIS¶
#include
<dev/hyperv/hv_snapshot.h>
#define VSS_SUCCESS 0x00000000 #define VSS_FAIL 0x00000001 enum hv_vss_op_t { HV_VSS_NONE = 0, HV_VSS_CHECK, HV_VSS_FREEZE, HV_VSS_THAW, HV_VSS_COUNT }; struct hv_vss_opt_msg { uint32_t opt; /* operation */ uint32_t status; /* 0 for success, 1 for error */ uint64_t msgid; /* an ID used to identify the transaction */ uint8_t reserved[48]; /* reserved values are all zeroes */ };
DESCRIPTION¶
The freeze or thaw functionality of application is important to
guarantee the application consistent backup. On windows platform, VSS is
defined to do live backup. But for VM guest running on Hyper-V, the
corresponding VSS is not defined yet. For example, a running database server
instance, it knows when the applications' freeze/thaw should start or
finish. But it is not aware of the freeze/thaw notification from Hyper-V
host. The hv_vss
is designed to notify application
freeze/thaw request. Thus, it plays a role of broker to forward the
freeze/thaw command from Hyper-V host to userland application if it
registered VSS service on FreeBSD VM, and sends the
result back to Hyper-V host.
Generally, hv_vss_daemon(8) takes the
responsibility to freeze/thaw UFS file system, and it is automatically
launched after system boots. When Hyper-V host wants to take a snapshot of
the FreeBSD VM, it will first send VSS capability
check to FreeBSD VM. The
hv_vss
received the request and forward the request
to userland application if it is registered. Only after
hv_vss
received the VSS_SUCCESS response from
application, the hv_vss_daemon(8) will be informed to
check whether file system freeze/thaw is supported. Any error occurs during
this period, hv_vss
will inform Hyper-V host that
VSS is not supported. In addition, there is a default timeout limit before
sending response to Hyper-V host. If the total response time from
application and hv_vss_daemon(8) exceeds this value,
timeout will occurs and VSS unsupported is responsed to Hyper-V host.
After Hyper-V host confirmed the FreeBSD
VM supports VSS, it will send freeze request to VM, and
hv_vss
will first forward it to application. After
application finished freezing, it should inform
hv_vss
and file system level freezing will be
triggered by hv_vss_daemon(8). After all freezing on both
application and hv_vss_daemon(8) were finished, the
hv_vss
will inform Hyper-V host that freezing is
done. Of course, there is a timeout limit as same as VSS capability is set
to make sure freezing on FreeBSD VM is not hang. If
there is any error occurs or timeout happened, the freezing is failed on
Hyper-V side.
Hyper-V host will send thaw request after taking the snapshot,
typically, this period is very short in order not to block the running
application. hv_vss
firstly thaw the file system by
notifying hv_vss_daemon(8), then notifies user registered
application. There is also a timeout check before sending response to
Hyper-V host.
All the default timeout limit used in VSS capability check, freeze or thaw is the same. It is 15 seconds currently.
NOTES¶
hv_vss
only support UFS currently. If any
of file system partition is non UFS, the VSS capability check will fail. If
application does not register VSS, hv_vss
only
support backup for file system level consistent. The device should be closed
before it was opened again. If you want to simultaneously open
"/dev/hv_appvss_dev" two or more times, an error (-1) will be
returned, and errno was set.
If hv_vss_daemon(8) was killed after system boots, the VSS functionality will not work.
EXAMPLES¶
The following is a complete example which does nothing except for
waiting 2 seconds when receiving those notifications from
hv_vss
#include <string.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/param.h> #include <sys/ucred.h> #include <sys/mount.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <poll.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <syslog.h> #include <errno.h> #include <err.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <ufs/ffs/fs.h> #include <paths.h> #include <sys/ioccom.h> #include <dev/hyperv/hv_snapshot.h> #define UNDEF_FREEZE_THAW (0) #define FREEZE (1) #define THAW (2) #define CHECK (3) #define VSS_LOG(priority, format, args...) do { \ if (is_debugging == 1) { \ if (is_daemon == 1) \ syslog(priority, format, ## args); \ else \ printf(format, ## args); \ } else { \ if (priority < LOG_DEBUG) { \ if (is_daemon == 1) \ syslog(priority, format, ## args); \ else \ printf(format, ## args); \ } \ } \ } while(0) #define CHECK_TIMEOUT 1 #define CHECK_FAIL 2 #define FREEZE_TIMEOUT 1 #define FREEZE_FAIL 2 #define THAW_TIMEOUT 1 #define THAW_FAIL 2 static int is_daemon = 1; static int is_debugging = 0; static int simu_opt_waiting = 2; // seconds #define GENERIC_OPT(TIMEOUT, FAIL) \ do { \ sleep(simu_opt_waiting); \ if (opt == CHECK_TIMEOUT) { \ sleep(simu_opt_waiting * 10); \ VSS_LOG(LOG_INFO, "%s timeout simulation\n", \ __func__); \ return (0); \ } else if (opt == CHECK_FAIL) { \ VSS_LOG(LOG_INFO, "%s failure simulation\n", \ __func__); \ return (CHECK_FAIL); \ } else { \ VSS_LOG(LOG_INFO, "%s success simulation\n", \ __func__); \ return (0); \ } \ } while (0) static int check(int opt) { GENERIC_OPT(CHECK_TIMEOUT, CHECK_FAIL); } static int freeze(int opt) { GENERIC_OPT(FREEZE_TIMEOUT, FREEZE_FAIL); } static int thaw(int opt) { GENERIC_OPT(THAW_TIMEOUT, THAW_FAIL); } static void usage(const char* cmd) { fprintf(stderr, "%s -f <0|1|2>: simulate app freeze." " 0: successful, 1: freeze timeout, 2: freeze failed\n" " -c <0|1|2>: simulate vss feature check" " -t <0|1|2>: simulate app thaw." " 0: successful, 1: freeze timeout, 2: freeze failed\n" " -d : enable debug mode\n" " -n : run this tool under non-daemon mode\n", cmd); } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { int ch, freezesimuop = 0, thawsimuop = 0, checksimuop = 0, fd, r, error; uint32_t op; struct pollfd app_vss_fd[1]; struct hv_vss_opt_msg userdata; while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "f:c:t:dnh")) != -1) { switch (ch) { case 'f': /* Run as regular process for debugging purpose. */ freezesimuop = (int)strtol(optarg, NULL, 10); break; case 't': thawsimuop = (int)strtol(optarg, NULL, 10); break; case 'c': checksimuop = (int)strtol(optarg, NULL, 10); break; case 'd': is_debugging = 1; break; case 'n': is_daemon = 0; break; case 'h': default: usage(argv[0]); exit(0); } } openlog("APPVSS", 0, LOG_USER); /* Become daemon first. */ if (is_daemon == 1) daemon(1, 0); else VSS_LOG(LOG_DEBUG, "Run as regular process.\n"); VSS_LOG(LOG_INFO, "HV_VSS starting; pid is: %d\n", getpid()); fd = open(VSS_DEV(APP_VSS_DEV_NAME), O_RDWR); if (fd < 0) { VSS_LOG(LOG_ERR, "Fail to open %s, error: %d %s\n", VSS_DEV(APP_VSS_DEV_NAME), errno, strerror(errno)); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } app_vss_fd[0].fd = fd; app_vss_fd[0].events = POLLIN | POLLRDNORM; while (1) { r = poll(app_vss_fd, 1, INFTIM); VSS_LOG(LOG_DEBUG, "poll returned r = %d, revent = 0x%x\n", r, app_vss_fd[0].revents); if (r == 0 || (r < 0 && errno == EAGAIN) || (r < 0 && errno == EINTR)) { /* Nothing to read */ continue; } if (r < 0) { /* * For poll return failure other than EAGAIN, * we want to exit. */ VSS_LOG(LOG_ERR, "Poll failed.\n"); perror("poll"); exit(EIO); } /* Read from character device */ error = ioctl(fd, IOCHVVSSREAD, &userdata); if (error < 0) { VSS_LOG(LOG_ERR, "Read failed.\n"); perror("pread"); exit(EIO); } if (userdata.status != 0) { VSS_LOG(LOG_ERR, "data read error\n"); continue; } op = userdata.opt; switch (op) { case HV_VSS_CHECK: error = check(checksimuop); break; case HV_VSS_FREEZE: error = freeze(freezesimuop); break; case HV_VSS_THAW: error = thaw(thawsimuop); break; default: VSS_LOG(LOG_ERR, "Illegal operation: %d\n", op); error = VSS_FAIL; } if (error) userdata.status = VSS_FAIL; else userdata.status = VSS_SUCCESS; error = ioctl(fd, IOCHVVSSWRITE, &userdata); if (error != 0) { VSS_LOG(LOG_ERR, "Fail to write to device\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } else { VSS_LOG(LOG_INFO, "Send response %d for %s to kernel\n", userdata.status, op == HV_VSS_FREEZE ? "Freeze" : (op == HV_VSS_THAW ? "Thaw" : "Check")); } } return 0; }
SEE ALSO¶
HISTORY¶
The daemon was introduced in October 2016 and developed by Microsoft Corp.
AUTHORS¶
FreeBSD support for
hv_vss
was first added by Microsoft
BSD Integration Services Team
<bsdic@microsoft.com>.
October 12, 2016 | Debian |