On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 14:05:20 +0100
Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/09/2016 02:02 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > On 03/09/2016 01:55 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 09/03/2016 13:21, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> >>> I have some random crashes at startup
> >>>
> >>> Stack trace of thread 48326:
> >>> #0 0x000002aa2e0cce46 bdrv_co_do_rw (qemu-system-s390x)
> >>> #1 0x000002aa2e159e8e coroutine_trampoline
> >>> (qemu-system-s390x)
> >>> #2 0x000003ffbc35150a __makecontext_ret (libc.so.6)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> that I was able to bisect.
> >>> commit 2906cddfecff21af20eedab43288b485a679f9ac does crash regularly,
> >>> 2906cddfecff21af20eedab43288b485a679f9ac^ does not.
> >>>
> >>> I will try to find somebody that looks into that - unless you have an
> >>> idea.
> >>
> >> The only random idea is to move
> >>
> >> vblk->dataplane_started = true
> >>
> >> to the beginning of virtio_blk_data_plane_start rather than the end.
> >>
> >> Paolo
> >>
> >
> > Indeed
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c
> > b/hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c
> > index 36f3d2b..1908d59 100644
> > --- a/hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c
> > +++ b/hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c
> > @@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ void virtio_blk_data_plane_start(VirtIOBlockDataPlane
> > *s)
> > if (vblk->dataplane_started || s->starting) {
> > return;
> > }
> > + vblk->dataplane_started = true;
> >
> > s->starting = true;
> > s->vq = virtio_get_queue(s->vdev, 0);
> > @@ -235,7 +236,6 @@ void virtio_blk_data_plane_start(VirtIOBlockDataPlane
> > *s)
> > fail_guest_notifiers:
> > s->disabled = true;
> > s->starting = false;
> > - vblk->dataplane_started = true;
> > }
> >
> > /* Context: QEMU global mutex held */
> >
> > seems to fix the issue.
>
> Hmmm, no another crash, just seems to happen less often.
What about the proposal in <[email protected]>, i.e. move
setting the started flag out of dataplane entirely?