[Qemu-devel] Re: kvm: savevm is broken for me

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:18:02 +0200
Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> On 24.07.2009, at 15:54, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:06:13 +0200
> > Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> On 23.07.2009, at 23:58, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Hi there,
> >>>
> >>> If I try to 'savevm' with latest Anthony's tree (HEAD
> >>> 6f725c139ae975646c44ace77bf796318a5783da) QEMU will hang and I know
> >>> it's not saving anything because vmstat shows no disk activity  
> >>> (which
> >>> is the opposite behavior of when 'savevm' works).
> >>>
> >>> According to 'git bisect' the week's winner is:
> >>>
> >>> """
> >>> commit bd8367761236cd5c435598aeb2f1b8240c09b059
> >>> Author: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
> >>> Date:   Fri Jul 17 13:51:48 2009 +0200
> >>>
> >>>   Fake dirty loggin when it's not there
> >>> """
> >>>
> >>> Indeed, reverting this makes 'savevm' work for me.
> >>
> >>
> >> Yikes. I have no idea why, but just revert the patch :-). I don't
> >> really need it anymore since we now have dirty logging in PPC.
> >>
> >> Maybe it's the if (is dirty logging really enabled?) in the  
> >> beginning?
> >
> > Yes, it's the if. I have removed it and savevm works.
> >
> > Can you submit the fix please?
> 
> Eh - what fix? You found that something doesn't set or evaluate the  
> flags right. That still doesn't tell us who behaves incorrectly.

 Ah, okay. I thought you meant the 'if' _was_ the bug.

 Better to revert then?