On 2012-11-21 14:38, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2012-11-21 14:33, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Il 21/11/2012 14:27, Jan Kiszka ha scritto: >>>>>>> Are there any patches flying around that are supposed to resolve this? >>>>> >>>>> No. Is this with aio=native or aio=threads? >>> aio=<default> - whatever that is on win32. >> >> That's aio=threads, just like POSIX. I'm curious (but not too >> optimistic) whether aio=native fixes it. > > Just tried, and it actually makes no difference. > >> >> Anyhow, do you have a reproducer that I can download? > > Unfortunately, not at this point. Have to check, maybe I can trip the > image to the bare Linux guest.
Maybe this helps: =>0 0xf77c242e __kernel_vsyscall+0xe() in [vdso].so (0x0519df88) 1 0xf761f10b __libc_read+0x4a() in libpthread.so.0 (0x0519df88) 2 0x7bc78c98 in ntdll (+0x68c97) (0x0519df88) 3 0x7bc7b0a3 in ntdll (+0x6b0a2) (0x0519e1b8) 4 0x7bc7b195 NtWaitForMultipleObjects+0x54() in ntdll (0x0519e1e8) 5 0x7b86de9f WaitForMultipleObjectsEx+0xee() in kernel32 (0x0519e338) 6 0x7b86df1a WaitForMultipleObjects+0x39() in kernel32 (0x0519e368) 7 0x0040301b aio_poll+0x16a(ctx=0x157610, blocking=<is not available>) [/data/qemu/aio-win32.c:178] in qemu-system-arm (0x00000001) 8 0x004feec3 qemu_aio_wait+0x22() [/data/qemu/main-loop.c:442] in qemu-system-arm (0x0105bdec) 9 0x00417166 bdrv_rw_co+0xa5(bs=0x159648, sector_num=<internal error>, buf="¹¸ÿ¦ ", nb_sectors=0x4, is_write=true) [/data/qemu/block.c:1997] in qemu-system-arm (0x0105bdec) 10 0x00495544 in qemu-system-arm (+0x95543) (0x0105bdec) 11 0x0049592a pflash_write+0x3b9(pfl=0xd6f16e0, offset=<internal error>, value=0x98f7fb1d, width=0x4, be=0) [/data/qemu/hw/pflash_cfi01.c:405] in qemu-system-arm (0x0105bdec) 12 0x00618a7e io_mem_write+0xed(mr=0xd6f2a48, addr=0x105bdec, val=0x98f7fb1d, size=0x4) [/data/qemu/memory.c:911] in qemu-system-arm (0x00000004) 13 0x0064088c helper_stl_mmu+0x2fb(env=0x15e268, addr=0xca05bdec, val=0x98f7fb1d, mmu_idx=0) [/data/qemu/softmmu_template.h:231] in qemu-system-arm (0x3700001e) 14 0x02136637 (0x0015e268) It's the VCPU thread stuck in aio_poll, holding the BQL, blocking the iothread this way as well. Is there some race that prevents we receive the proper IO completion signal? Any states I should check? Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux