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Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] New iotest repros failures on virtio exter


From: Max Reitz
Subject: Re: [Qemu-block] [Qemu-devel] New iotest repros failures on virtio external snapshot with iothread
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 15:58:37 +0200
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On 30.03.2017 04:16, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/29/2017 09:01 PM, Ed Swierk via Qemu-devel wrote:
>> Parts of qemu's block code have changed a lot in recent months but are
>> not well exercised by current tests.
>>
>> Subtle bugs have crept in causing assertion failures, hangs and other
>> crashes in a variety of situations: immediately on start, on first
>> guest activity, on external snapshot create or commit, on qmp quit
>> command.
>>
>> Reproducing these bugs has proved tricky, as each may occur only with
>> a specific combination of qemu version, block device type (virtio-blk
>> or virtio-scsi) and iothread enabled or not. In some cases the bug
>> occurs only after several external snapshot operations. And in some
>> cases the bug only manifests when a guest is accessing the block
>> device simultaneously.
>>
>> I've written an iotest (number 176, for now) that attempts to cover
> 
> At least one other thread has already proposed a test 176.  It's
> somewhat straightforward to renumber things, but I'm wondering if there
> is some even-more-efficient way of reserving test numbers, perhaps
> through the wiki, since we are finding that test numbers get reserved
> several weeks before actually getting merged into the tree.

As a maintainer, I don't mind collisions; I can and will rename tests.
For all I care, you can even name all of your tests 001.

Max

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