Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-blk broken after system reset

[Jan Kiszka]

Am 13.11.2010 08:49, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> both after hard and guest-initiated reset, something is seriously broken
>> with virtio block devices. If I reset my Linux guest while still in
>> grub, the bios will simply fail to read from the disk after the reboot. If I
>> reset after Linux touched the device, qemu terminates:
>>
>> Breakpoint 1, 0x00007ffff4b945b0 in _exit () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0x00007ffff4b945b0 in _exit () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #1  0x00007ffff4b2948d in __run_exit_handlers () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #2  0x00007ffff4b29535 in exit () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #3  0x0000000000568da3 in virtqueue_num_heads (vq=0x17040e0, idx=0) at 
>> /data/qemu/hw/virtio.c:258
>> #4  0x0000000000569511 in virtqueue_pop (vq=0x17040e0, elem=0x17cea58) at 
>> /data/qemu/hw/virtio.c:388
>> #5  0x0000000000419e31 in virtio_blk_get_request (s=0x1704010) at 
>> /data/qemu/hw/virtio-blk.c:132
>> #6  virtio_blk_handle_output (vdev=0x1704010, vq=<value optimized out>) at 
>> /data/qemu/hw/virtio-blk.c:369
>>
>> This is with current qemu.git head, haven't tried older versions. Known bug?
> 
> This is a known issue.  Gleb has posted a SeaBIOS fix:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg45849.html
> 
> Currently the patch only appears in SeaBIOS master.  Gleb and Kevin
> have discussed putting it into 0.6.1.2 stable (see linked thread).
> QEMU should then pick that release up.

Ah, good.

And what about the guest-triggerable qemu exit above?

Jan

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