[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] ide: Set BSY bit during FLUSH

[Kevin Wolf]

From: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>

The implementation of the ATA FLUSH command invokes a flush at the block
layer, which may on raw files on POSIX entail a synchronous fdatasync().
This may in some cases take so long that the SLES 11 SP1 guest driver
reports I/O errors and filesystems get corrupted or remounted read-only.

Avoid this by setting BUSY_STAT, so that the guest is made aware we are
in the middle of an operation and no ATA commands are attempted to be
processed concurrently.

Addresses BNC#637297.

Suggested-by: Gonglei (Arei) <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
---
 hw/ide/core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/hw/ide/core.c b/hw/ide/core.c
index c7a8041..9926d92 100644
--- a/hw/ide/core.c
+++ b/hw/ide/core.c
@@ -814,6 +814,7 @@ void ide_flush_cache(IDEState *s)
         return;
     }
 
+    s->status |= BUSY_STAT;
     bdrv_acct_start(s->bs, &s->acct, 0, BDRV_ACCT_FLUSH);
     bdrv_aio_flush(s->bs, ide_flush_cb, s);
 }
-- 
1.8.1.4