Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] virtio: refactor host notifiers

[tu bo <tubo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Hi Christian:

On 03/30/2016 12:27 AM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 03/29/2016 03:50 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 29/03/2016 13:45, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>>>>> Hi Tu Bo,
>>>>>
>>>>> please always include the assertion patch at
>>>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-block/2016-03/msg00546.html in
>>>>> your tests.  Can you include the backtrace from all threads with that patch?
>>>>>
>>>> thanks for your reminder about the assertion patch. Here is the
>>>> backtrace with qemu master + assertion patch + "[PATCH 0/6] virtio:
>>>> refactor host notifiers",
>>>
>>> FWIW, I've been running this in a reboot loop for the last 2 1/2 hours.
>>> Could you perhaps share your command line?
>>
>>  From code inspection, the following is also necessary or at least a
>> good idea:
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c b/hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c
>> index 6fb29e3..7fa8477 100644
>> --- a/hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c
>> +++ b/hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c
>> @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ void virtio_blk_data_plane_stop(VirtIOBlockDataPlane *s)
>>       aio_context_acquire(s->ctx);
>>
>>       /* Stop notifications for new requests from guest */
>> -    virtio_queue_aio_set_host_notifier_handler(s->vq, s->ctx, false, false);
>> +    virtio_queue_aio_set_host_notifier_handler(s->vq, s->ctx, true, false);
>>
>>       /* Drain and switch bs back to the QEMU main loop */
>>       blk_set_aio_context(s->conf->conf.blk, qemu_get_aio_context());
>>
>
> Right. Tu Bo, you seem to have the best testcase for this.
> Does your setup runs fine with this on top?

My test needs at least four scsi disks, which was broken now because of 
the s38 firmware update. I'll test it when s38 scsi is ready. thx

>
> CHristian
>