Re: [Qemu-devel] IDE disk FLUSH take more than 30 secs, the SUSE guest reports "lost interrupt and the file system becomes read-only"

[Gonglei (Arei)]

Hi, Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Färber [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 7:50 PM
> To: Gonglei (Arei)
> Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden; Wangzhenguo; Luonengjun;
> Huangweidong (Hardware); Bo Yang
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] IDE disk FLUSH take more than 30 secs, the SUSE
> guest reports "lost interrupt and the file system becomes read-only"
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am 21.05.2013 09:12, schrieb Gonglei (Arei):
> > In the case of physical hard disk's speed which processing IO (when grouping
> RAID) is very slow, I encountered a problem.
> > I dd big file in SUSE virtual machine, the command is
> > linux:/ # dd if=/dev/zero of=./info bs=1M count=5000;sync
> >
> > but finally I get those message:
> > linux:~ # dmesg
> > [  174.804114] ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)
> > [  174.812305] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 12085270
> > [  174.812309] Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 984530
> > [  174.812310] lost page write due to I/O error on sda2
> > [  174.813268] Aborting journal on device sda2.
> > [  174.828330] journal commit I/O error
> > [  174.828373] ext3_abort called.
> > [  174.828375] EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected
> aborted journal
> > [  174.828377] Remounting filesystem read-only
> > [  182.286424] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
> > [  182.286434] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
> > [  182.286442] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
> > [  182.286452] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
> > [  182.286472] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
> >
> >
> > Through analysis, I found that because the system call the fdatasync
> command in the Qemu over 30s,
> 
> Could you share your QEMU command line being used on the host? In
> particular I'm wondering about -drive's cache option used - I've only
> seen issues with cache=unsafe so far.
> 
That's OK.
linux-XQiARZ:~ # ps -ef | grep qemu
root      6303     1  2 14:04 ?        00:08:55 qemu-system-i386 -xen-domid 779 
-chardev socket,id=libxl-cmd,path=/var/run/xen/qmp-libxl-779,server,nowait -mon 
chardev=libxl-cmd,mode=control -name suse -vnc 0.0.0.0:0 -serial pty -boot 
order=c -usb -usbdevice tablet -device usb-ehci,id=ehci -smp 2,maxcpus=2 
-device rtl8139,id=nic0,netdev=net0,mac=00:16:3e:34:40:46 -netdev 
type=tap,id=net0,ifname=tap779.0,bridge=br0,script=/etc/xen/scripts/qemu-ifup,downscript=no
 -M xenfv -m 2040 -drive 
file=/dev/xen/blktap-2/tapdev0,if=ide,index=0,media=disk,format=raw 

> Is it an upstream qemu-system-x86_64 or a SLES qemu-kvm? What version?

My environment is xen-4.1.2+qemu-1.2.2- release + SLSE11SP1 Guest

> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 
> > after the Guest's kernel thread detects the io transferation is timeout, 
> > went
> to check IDE disk state.
> > But the IDE disk status is 0x50, rather than the BSY status, and then
> departed error process...
> >
> > the path of kernel's action is :
> > scsi_softirq_done
> >  scsi_eh_scmd_add
> >    scsi_error_handler
> >      shost->transportt->eh_strategy_handler
> >             ata_scsi_error
> >                     ap->ops->lost_interrupt
> >                             ata_sff_lost_interrupt
> > Finally, the file system becomes read-only.
> >
> > Why not set the IDE disk for the BSY status When 0xe7 command is executed
> in the Qemu?
> > Anyone know it? thanks!
> >
> > Best Regards!
> > -Arei
> 
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