Re: [PATCH for-7.0] main-loop: Disable GLOBAL_STATE_CODE() assertions

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 11:35:45AM +0200, Hanna Reitz wrote:
> These assertions are very useful for developers to find bugs, and so
> they have indeed pointed us towards bugs already.  For users, it is not
> so useful to find these bugs.  We should probably not enable them in
> releases until we are sufficiently certain that they will not fire
> during normal operation, unless something is going seriously wrong.
> 
> For example, we have received a bug report that you cannot add an NBD
> server on a BDS in an I/O thread with `-incoming defer`.  I am sure this
> is a real bug that needs investigation, but we do not really have that
> time right now, so close to release, and so I would rather disable the
> assertions to get time to investigate such reports.
> 
> (I am just putting the link as "buglink" below, not "closes", because
> disabling the assertion will not fix the likely underlying bug.)
> 
> Buglink: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/945
> Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/qemu/main-loop.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Sounds reasonable to me.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

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