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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] virtio-blk: Suppress error action on r/w be


From: Markus Armbruster
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] virtio-blk: Suppress error action on r/w beyond end
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:24:01 +0200
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Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> Il 05/06/2014 14:15, Markus Armbruster ha scritto:
>> When a device model's I/O operation fails, we execute the error
>> action.  This lets layers above QEMU implement thin provisioning, or
>> attempt to correct errors before they reach the guest.  But when the
>> I/O operation fails because its invalid, reporting the error to the
>> guest is the only sensible action.
>>
>> This short series does exactly that for virtio-blk.  I intend to do
>> the same for IDE and SCSI.
>
> Actually SCSI already does it (see check_lba_range in
> hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c).  Thanks for thinking about it though!

Your hint saved me some digging.  Thanks!



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