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

[Christian Borntraeger]

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?

CHristian