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From: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3] QEMU(upstream): Disable xen's use of O_DIRECT by default as it results in crashes.
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:33:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D78EB4113B16FAEE83B97084@nimrod.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1303191454170.4716@kaball.uk.xensource.com>

Stefano,

--On 19 March 2013 15:13:29 +0000 Stefano Stabellini 
<stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:

> Therefore I think that the current change is not safe, but it is pretty
> easy to make it safe.
> You just need to move the call to blk_open from blk_init to blk_connect.
> Actually you can move most of blk_init to blk_connect, you just need to
> keep the 4 xenstore_write_be_int at the end of the function.

The final of these 4 writes in blk_init is:

    xenstore_write_be_int(&blkdev->xendev, "sectors",
                          blkdev->file_size / blkdev->file_blk);

and blkdev->filesize comes from bdrv_getlength(blkdev->bs), and that
requires (I think) bdrv_open to have been called. Can these
4 writes move safely to blk_connect? Or can we write the sectors
count as (say) 0 here and fix it later in blk_connect? The remainder
look ok.

-- 
Alex Bligh

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-18 12:18 [PATCHv3] QEMU(upstream): Disable xen's use of O_DIRECT by default as it results in crashes Alex Bligh
2013-03-18 13:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
     [not found] ` <20130318130349.GB13065@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com>
2013-03-18 13:19   ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-18 13:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found] ` <51471767.8030604@redhat.com>
2013-03-18 13:49   ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Bligh
     [not found]   ` <7AC8953FE45335FB794B6DFE@Ximines.local>
2013-03-18 14:05     ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]     ` <51471F14.7030209@redhat.com>
2013-03-18 14:30       ` Alex Bligh
     [not found]       ` <6D0F4ACDA3B7FCF1A50F8B52@Ximines.local>
2013-03-18 14:49         ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]         ` <5147298C.8080900@redhat.com>
2013-03-18 15:40           ` Alex Bligh
     [not found]           ` <A2FA46AE3DD746AD97DC3137@Ximines.local>
2013-03-18 16:19             ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]             ` <51473E82.1020806@redhat.com>
2013-03-18 16:53               ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-18 17:38                 ` George Dunlap
2013-03-18 17:47                   ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-18 18:00                   ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]                   ` <5147562E.1090203@redhat.com>
2013-03-19 10:06                     ` George Dunlap
     [not found]                     ` <CAFLBxZbL4JC9SBgHzehtfpcjtR5OQN90SPFSTsXRLrpTWUSBsQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-19 10:43                       ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]                       ` <5148414C.7060303@redhat.com>
2013-03-19 10:51                         ` George Dunlap
     [not found]                         ` <51484328.4030301@eu.citrix.com>
2013-03-19 11:14                           ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]                           ` <5148489C.70808@redhat.com>
2013-03-19 11:21                             ` George Dunlap
2013-03-19 15:12                               ` George Dunlap
     [not found]                               ` <CAFLBxZYGfKJaNZQaZW0kmTdRxDqAbURtHD1kxsY76qQVh_xrkQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-19 15:29                                 ` George Dunlap
     [not found]                                 ` <CAFLBxZbR8RugaTS82OxTTMQgzi+w-4hkooYZ=x_HNFWchg2yiQ@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-19 19:15                                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Bligh
     [not found]                                   ` <0E09404F0675BA19C550B743@nimrod.local>
2013-03-20 10:24                                     ` Stefano Stabellini
     [not found]                                     ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1303201020170.17662@kaball.uk.xensource.com>
2013-03-20 10:37                                       ` George Dunlap
     [not found]                                       ` <51499157.2060202@eu.citrix.com>
2013-03-20 11:08                                         ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]                                         ` <514998A3.9090903@redhat.com>
2013-03-20 11:20                                           ` Alex Bligh
2013-03-20 11:57                                       ` [Qemu-devel] " David Scott
2013-03-19 11:44                             ` Alex Bligh
     [not found]                             ` <45EC1ED73B198669B314A507@nimrod.local>
2013-03-19 11:49                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-03-19 15:13                         ` Stefano Stabellini
     [not found]                         ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1303191454170.4716@kaball.uk.xensource.com>
2013-03-19 16:53                           ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]                           ` <51489818.9040709@redhat.com>
2013-03-19 17:03                             ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-03-20  8:33                           ` Alex Bligh [this message]
2013-03-20  9:26                             ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]                             ` <514980BD.7010005@redhat.com>
2013-03-29 17:19                               ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-03-31 19:53                                 ` Alex Bligh
     [not found]                                 ` <66DB172ECC6AABDC49D0E5A4@Ximines.local>
2013-04-01 15:32                                   ` [PATCH] [RFC] Xen PV backend: Move call to bdrv_new from blk_init to blk_connect Alex Bligh
2013-04-01 15:44                                     ` Stefano Stabellini
     [not found]                                     ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1304011640460.5078@kaball.uk.xensource.com>
2013-04-01 20:56                                       ` Alex Bligh
     [not found]                                       ` <358184A5C86D79E1A4CD05CA@nimrod.local>
2013-04-02 11:08                                         ` Stefano Stabellini
     [not found]                                         ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1304021208110.5078@kaball.uk.xensource.com>
2013-04-05 10:31                                           ` [PATCHv2 1/2] " Alex Bligh
2013-04-05 10:32                                           ` [PATCHv2 1/2] Xen PV backend (for qemu-upstream-4.2-testing): " Alex Bligh
     [not found]                                           ` <1365157969-23172-1-git-send-email-alex@alex.org.uk>
2013-04-05 10:32                                             ` [PATCHv2 2/2] Xen PV backend (for qemu-upstream-4.2-testing): Disable use of O_DIRECT by default as it results in crashes Alex Bligh
2013-04-05 10:34                                           ` [PATCH] [RFC] Xen PV backend: Move call to bdrv_new from blk_init to blk_connect Alex Bligh
     [not found]                                           ` <1365157905-22987-1-git-send-email-alex@alex.org.uk>
2013-04-05 10:31                                             ` [PATCHv2 2/2] Xen PV backend: Disable use of O_DIRECT by default as it results in crashes Alex Bligh
2013-04-05 14:22                                             ` [PATCHv2 1/2] Xen PV backend: Move call to bdrv_new from blk_init to blk_connect Stefano Stabellini
     [not found]                                             ` <alpine.DEB.2.02.1304051516460.5078@kaball.uk.xensource.com>
2013-04-05 15:42                                               ` [PATCHv3 " Alex Bligh
     [not found]                                               ` <1365176538-36833-1-git-send-email-alex@alex.org.uk>
2013-04-05 15:42                                                 ` [PATCHv3 2/2] Xen PV backend: Disable use of O_DIRECT by default as it results in crashes Alex Bligh
2013-04-05 15:43                                               ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 1/2] Xen PV backend: Move call to bdrv_new from blk_init to blk_connect Alex Bligh
2013-04-01 16:35                                   ` [PATCHv3] QEMU(upstream): Disable xen's use of O_DIRECT by default as it results in crashes Alex Bligh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-08 11:18 [PATCH] " 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

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