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From: Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	eric.g.ernst@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] util/async: print leaked BH name when AioContext finalizes
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 08:09:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210415080930.GA2259808@do.euphon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210414200247.917496-1-stefanha@redhat.com>

On 2021-04-14 21:02, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Eric Ernst and I debugged a BH leak and it was more involved than it should be.
> The problem is that BHs don't have a human-readable identifier, so low-level
> debugging techniques and inferences about the code are required to figure out
> which BH was leaked in production environments without easy debug access.
> 
> The leak ended up already being fixed upstream but let's improve diagnostics
> for leaked BHs so that this becomes quick and easy in the future.
> 
> Stefan Hajnoczi (2):
>   util/async: add a human-readable name to BHs for debugging
>   util/async: print leaked BH name when AioContext finalizes
> 
>  include/block/aio.h            | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  include/qemu/main-loop.h       |  4 +++-
>  tests/unit/ptimer-test-stubs.c |  2 +-
>  util/async.c                   | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++----
>  util/main-loop.c               |  4 ++--
>  5 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.30.2
> 

Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-15  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-14 20:02 [PATCH 0/2] util/async: print leaked BH name when AioContext finalizes Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-04-14 20:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] util/async: add a human-readable name to BHs for debugging Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-04-15  9:08   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-14 20:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] util/async: print leaked BH name when AioContext finalizes Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-04-15  8:09 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2021-07-05 10:55 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Stefan Hajnoczi

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