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From: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>
To: Dongsu Park <dongsu.park@profitbricks.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] O_EXCL or not open block device
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:27:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5231A524.2080103@profitbricks.com> (raw)

Hi all,

We're using qemu export md-raid to guest OS, and we saw deadlock on
MD(which is already fixed by Neil), please see thread below:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=137894040228125&w=2

As Neil suggested it would be good for userspace applications to call
open() with O_EXCL flag, to avoid such MD hanging problems at the begining.

And we checked qemu, it looks it doesn't include O_EXCL flag when open
block device.

After search in the mail list we found there are a similar discussion:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-04/msg00722.html

> To O_EXCL or not to O_EXCL open host_cdrom

Which looks prefer enable O_EXCL, but I checked latest qemu tree, there
no such code, could anyone give comments on this?

Best regards,
Jack

             reply	other threads:[~2013-09-12 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-12 11:27 Jack Wang [this message]
2013-09-12 13:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC] O_EXCL or not open block device Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-09-12 14:27   ` Kevin Wolf
2013-09-12 15:57     ` Jack Wang
2013-09-12 22:48     ` NeilBrown
2013-09-13  7:16       ` Paolo Bonzini

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