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Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 0/6] ide: avoid main-loop hang o


From: Peter Lieven
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 0/6] ide: avoid main-loop hang on CDROM/NFS failure
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 07:48:41 +0100
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Am 16.11.2015 um 07:17 schrieb Fam Zheng:
On Fri, 11/13 17:44, John Snow wrote:

On 11/12/2015 11:30 AM, Peter Lieven wrote:
This series aims at avoiding a hanging main-loop if a vserver has a
CDROM image mounted from a NFS share and that NFS share goes down.
Typical situation is that users mount an CDROM ISO to install something
and then forget to eject that CDROM afterwards.
As a consequence this mounted CD is able to bring down the
whole vserver if the backend NFS share is unreachable. This is bad
especially if the CDROM itself is not needed anymore at this point.

v3->v4: - Patch 1: remove buf argument for cd_read_sector{_sync}
         - Patch 1: fix iov_base offset for 2352 sector size
         - Patch 2: fix indent [Fam]
         - Patch 3: fix leaking of req->iov.iov_base [Fam]

v2->v3: - adressed Stefans comments on Patch 1
         - added patches 2,4,5,6
         - avoided the term cancel in Patch 3. Added an iovec,
           added a BH [Stefan]
v1->v2: - fix offset for 2352 byte sector size [Kevin]
         - use a sync request if we continue an elementary transfer.
           As John pointed out we enter a race condition between next
           IDE command and async transfer otherwise. This is sill not
           optimal, but it fixes the NFS down problems for all cases where
           the NFS server goes down while there is no PIO CD activity.
           Of course, it could still happen during a PIO transfer, but I
           expect this to be the unlikelier case.
           I spent some effort trying to read more sectors at once and
           avoiding continuation of elementary transfers, but with
           whatever I came up it was destroying migration between different
           Qemu versions. I have a quite hackish patch that works and
           should survive migration, but I am not happy with it. So I
           would like to start with this version as it is a big improvement
           already.
         - Dropped Patch 5 because it is upstream meanwhile.

Peter Lieven (6):
   ide/atapi: make PIO read requests async
   block: add blk_abort_aio_request
   ide: add support for IDEBufferedRequest
   ide: orphan all buffered requests on DMA cancel
   ide: enable buffered requests for ATAPI devices
   ide: enable buffered requests for PIO read requests

  block/block-backend.c          |  17 +++----
  hw/ide/atapi.c                 | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
  hw/ide/core.c                  |  51 +++++++++++++++++++-
  hw/ide/internal.h              |  14 ++++++
  hw/ide/pci.c                   |  19 ++++++++
  include/sysemu/block-backend.h |   3 ++
  6 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

It looks sane to me:

Reviewed-by: John Snow <address@hidden>

Fam, Stefan: Do you think this is still sane for 2.5? I am inclined to
get it in as a fix, especially since we've been bouncing it around for
so long.
I have no objection here, there is no new feature in the series, and guest
hanging right after installing something is admittedly annoying to users.

Thats for speaking for merging it in 2.5. However, I have to clarify that
the fixed behaviour is the same since day 1 of Qemu.

Peter



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