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From: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
	Xen Devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Fatal crash on xen4.2 HVM + qemu-xen dm + NFS
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:02:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18461AA818974B0D39B5BC2E@nimrod.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358849116.3279.306.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>

Ian,

--On 22 January 2013 10:05:16 +0000 Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> 
wrote:

> I've never looked inside xen_qdisk so I can't really advise, but that
> sound broadly correct, except you'd want to use gnttab_copy not mmap
> +memcpy. e.g. (totally making up the API because I'm too lazy to go
> look):
> 	buffer = malloc(SIZE)
> 	if (writing)
> 		gnttab_copy_from(buffer, gntref, size)
>
> 	io->buffer = buffer
> 	submit(io)
> ... wait for completion:
> 	if (reading)
> 		gnttab_copy_to(...)
> 	free(io->buffer)
>
> Hopefully you get the idea ;-) Sounds like before the ... goes in
> ioreq_map and after the ... goes in ioreq_unmap.

Thanks. If the O_DIRECT thing doesn't fix it, I'll take a look again.
My initial analysis was that a copy interface wasn't available through
xc_ type functions.

-- 
Alex Bligh

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-22 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-14 14:54 Fatal crash on xen4.2 HVM + qemu-xen dm + NFS Alex Bligh
2012-12-17 10:10 ` Jan Beulich
2012-12-17 17:09   ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-16 10:56   ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-16 14:34     ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-16 15:06       ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-16 16:00         ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-16 16:27         ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-16 17:13           ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-16 17:33             ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-16 17:39               ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-16 18:14                 ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-16 18:49                   ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-16 19:00                     ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-17  7:58                       ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-16 18:12               ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-21 15:15               ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-21 15:23                 ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-21 15:35                   ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-21 15:50                     ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-21 16:33                       ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-21 16:51                         ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-21 17:06                           ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-21 17:29                             ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-21 17:31                           ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-21 17:32                             ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-21 18:14                               ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-22 10:05                                 ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-22 13:02                                   ` Alex Bligh [this message]
2013-01-22 13:13                                     ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-21 20:37                           ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-22 10:07                             ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-22 13:01                               ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-22 13:14                                 ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-22 13:18                                   ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-22 10:13                             ` Ian Campbell
2013-01-22 12:59                               ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-22 15:46                                 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-22 15:42                             ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-22 16:09                               ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-22 20:31                                 ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-23 11:52                                   ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-23 15:19                                     ` Alex Bligh
2013-01-23 16:29                                       ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-01-25 11:28                                         ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-05 15:40                                           ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-22 17:28                                             ` Alex Bligh
2013-02-22 17:41                                               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-02-22 18:00                                                 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-02-22 19:53                                                 ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-06 11:50                                                   ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-07  1:01                                                     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-07  4:15                                                       ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-03-07 10:47                                                         ` [PATCH] QEMU(upstream): Disable xen's use of O_DIRECT by default as it results in crashes Alex Bligh
2013-03-08  3:18                                                           ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-03-08  9:25                                                             ` [PATCHv2] " Alex Bligh
2013-03-08  9:26                                                             ` [PATCH] " Alex Bligh
2013-03-08 10:17                                                             ` George Dunlap
2013-03-08 10:27                                                               ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-08 10:35                                                                 ` George Dunlap
2013-03-08 10:50                                                                   ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-08 11:18                                                                     ` George Dunlap
2013-03-08 11:40                                                                       ` [PATCHv3] " Alex Bligh
2013-03-08 12:54                                                                         ` George Dunlap
2013-03-11 14:02                                                                           ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-11 14:42                                                                             ` George Dunlap
2013-03-11 17:48                                                                               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-03-11 17:55                                                                                 ` Ian Jackson
2013-03-14 17:06                                                                                   ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-14 18:26                                                                                     ` Ian Jackson
2013-03-12 12:08                                                                               ` Ian Campbell
2013-03-14 18:37                                                                         ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-03-14 19:30                                                                           ` Ian Jackson
2013-03-14 19:56                                                                             ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-15  9:28                                                                             ` Ian Campbell
2013-03-15 10:43                                                                               ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-03-15 11:21                                                                                 ` Ian Jackson
2013-03-15 11:28                                                                                   ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-03-15 11:37                                                                                     ` Ian Jackson
2013-03-15 11:43                                                                                       ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-03-15 12:43                                                                                         ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-15 12:50                                                                                           ` Ian Campbell
2013-03-15 18:31                                                                                         ` Ian Jackson
2013-03-18 10:29                                                                                         ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-18 11:47                                                                                           ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-03-18 12:21                                                                                             ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-08 11:41                                                                       ` [PATCH] " Alex Bligh
2013-03-08 10:28                                                               ` George Dunlap
2013-03-08 10:45                                                                 ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-07 10:51                                                         ` Fatal crash on xen4.2 HVM + qemu-xen dm + NFS Alex Bligh
2013-03-07  8:16                                                       ` Alex Bligh

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