Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.12] monitor: bind dispatch bh to iohandler context

[Peter Xu]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 08:02:44AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/03/2018 12:01 AM, Peter Xu wrote:
> > Eric Auger reported the problem days ago that OOB broke ARM when running
> > with libvirt:
> > 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg06231.html
> > 
> > This patch fixes the problem.
> > 
> > It's not really needed now since we have turned OOB off now, but it's
> > still a bug fix, and it'll start to work when we turn OOB on for ARM.
> 
> It may be more than just ARM affected, and just that ARM happened to
> trigger the problem easier.

Yes.  Please feel free to add something to the commit message if you
think necessary.

[...]

> > This patch will fix all known OOB breakages I know so far, but I think
> > for better safety I'll still keep OOB off, and I'll send another patch
> > to turn default OOB on after 2.12 release.
> 
> Yes, leaving OOB defaulting to off unless you use x-oob=on for 2.12 is
> the most conservative action, although we still want to fix all known
> bugs that you can trigger by using that.
> 
> How did you run iotests with OOB on by default, by recompiling the
> binary to undo commit be933ffc2, or by tweaking the iotests scripts to
> pass x-oob=on by default?

Not really undo be933ffc2, but pick up 3fd2457d18 manually.

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu