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On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:45:19PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> I did see this on XFS too. The whole thing bothers me, it doesn't happen
> consistently in some setups, which I don't understand. Either it should
> trigger always or never.

Well, if it also happens in XFS the above change isn't going to fix
it alone, there must be another issue hiding in addition to the error
conversion problems.