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From: hch <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: fall back from direct to buffered I/O when stable writes are
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On Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 09:50:10AM +0000, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On 11/5/25 10:44 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity -- is qemu itself mutating the buffers that it is
> > passing down to the lower levels via dio?  Or is it a program in the
> > guest that's mutating buffers that are submitted for dio, which then get
> > zerocopied all the way down to the hypervisor?
> 
> If my memory serves me right it is the guest (or at least can be). I 
> remember a bug report on btrfs where a Windows guest had messed up 
> checksums because of modifying inflight I/O.

qemu passes I/O through, so yes it is guest controller.  Windows is most
famous, but the Linux swap code can trigger it easily too.