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From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] ide: Set BSY bit during FLUSH
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 13:50:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A5EB9E.7000607@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369827246-2802-3-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com>

Am 29.05.2013 13:34, schrieb Kevin Wolf:
> From: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
> 
> 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) <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> ---
>  hw/ide/core.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ide/core.c b/hw/ide/core.c
> index c7a8041..bf1ff18 100644
> --- a/hw/ide/core.c
> +++ b/hw/ide/core.c
> @@ -795,6 +795,8 @@ static void ide_flush_cb(void *opaque, int ret)
>  {
>      IDEState *s = opaque;
>  
> +    s->status &= ~BUSY_STAT;
> +
>      if (ret < 0) {
>          /* XXX: What sector number to set here? */
>          if (ide_handle_rw_error(s, -ret, BM_STATUS_RETRY_FLUSH)) {

Didn't you want this hunk to be dropped?

But thanks for picking the patch up already.

Andreas

> @@ -814,6 +816,7 @@ 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);
>  }
> 


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-29 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-29 11:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] ide: Set BSY bit during FLUSH Kevin Wolf
2013-05-29 11:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] blkdebug: Add BLKDBG_FLUSH_TO_OS/DISK events Kevin Wolf
2013-05-29 11:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] ide: Set BSY bit during FLUSH Kevin Wolf
2013-05-29 11:50   ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2013-05-29 12:46     ` Kevin Wolf
2013-05-29 11:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] ide-test: Add FLUSH CACHE test case Kevin Wolf
2013-05-30  7:24   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-05-30  7:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] ide: Set BSY bit during FLUSH Stefan Hajnoczi

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