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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: "Huaicheng Li (coperd)" <lhcwhu@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] about correctness of IDE emulation
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:42:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160314014248.GA2112@ad.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AC10DBE9-1971-4863-9156-546D47FF9F2B@gmail.com>

On Sun, 03/13 14:37, Huaicheng Li (coperd) wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> What I’m confused about is that:
> 
> If one I/O is too large and may need several rounds (say 2) of DMA transfers,
> it seems the second round transfer begins only after the completion of the
> first part, by reading data from **IDEState**. But the IDEState info may have
> been changed by VCPU threads (by writing new I/Os to it) when the first
> transfer finishes. From the code, I see that IDE r/w call back function will
> continue the second transfer by referencing IDEState’s information. Wouldn’t
> this be problematic? Am I missing anything here?

Can you give an concrete example? I/O in VCPU threads that changes IDEState
must also take care of the DMA transfers, for example ide_reset() has
blk_aio_cancel and clears s->nsectors. If an I/O handler fails to do so, it is
a bug.

Fam

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-14  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-13 19:37 [Qemu-devel] about correctness of IDE emulation Huaicheng Li (coperd)
2016-03-14  1:42 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2016-03-15  3:09   ` Huaicheng Li
2016-03-15 12:59     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-04-13  7:25     ` Huaicheng Li (coperd)
2016-04-13 18:07       ` John Snow
2016-04-13 21:12         ` Huaicheng Li
2016-03-14 10:15 ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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