If we do copy-on-read in before_write_notifier, qemu will be crashed. The backtrace is: Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x00007f5d69207b55 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007f5d69207b55 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007f5d69209131 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x00007f5d69200a10 in __assert_fail () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #3 0x00007f5d6cb3a0d5 in wait_serialising_requests (self=0x7f5d36feeae0) at block/io.c:452 #4 0x00007f5d6cb3ae79 in bdrv_aligned_preadv (bs=0x7f5d6d570170, req=0x7f5d36feeae0, offset=93585408, bytes=65536, align=512, qiov=0x7f5d36feec90, flags=1) at block/io.c:847 #5 0x00007f5d6cb3b3cc in bdrv_co_do_preadv (bs=0x7f5d6d570170, offset=93585408, bytes=65536, qiov=0x7f5d36feec90, flags=BDRV_REQ_COPY_ON_READ) at block/io.c:971 #6 0x00007f5d6cb3b497 in bdrv_co_do_readv (bs=0x7f5d6d570170, sector_num=182784, nb_sectors=128, qiov=0x7f5d36feec90, flags=0) at block/io.c:993 #7 0x00007f5d6cb3b504 in bdrv_co_readv (bs=0x7f5d6d570170, sector_num=182784, nb_sectors=128, qiov=0x7f5d36feec90) at block/io.c:1002 #8 0x00007f5d6c8eaf42 in backup_do_cow (bs=0x7f5d6d570170, sector_num=182784, nb_sectors=8, error_is_read=0x0) at block/backup.c:132 #9 0x00007f5d6c8eb6cf in backup_before_write_notify (notifier=0x7f5d435fcf30, opaque=0x7f5d36feee40) at block/backup.c:193 #10 0x00007f5d6cb9ec33 in notifier_with_return_list_notify (list=0x7f5d6d5731f8, data=0x7f5d36feee40) at util/notify.c:65 #11 0x00007f5d6cb3bcc8 in bdrv_aligned_pwritev (bs=0x7f5d6d570170, req=0x7f5d36feee40, offset=93585408, bytes=4096, qiov=0x7f5d6eef4cf8, flags=0) at block/io.c:1126 #12 0x00007f5d6cb3c79e in bdrv_co_do_pwritev (bs=0x7f5d6d570170, offset=93585408, bytes=4096, qiov=0x7f5d6eef4cf8, flags=0) at block/io.c:1364 #13 0x00007f5d6cb3c867 in bdrv_co_do_writev (bs=0x7f5d6d570170, sector_num=182784, nb_sectors=8, qiov=0x7f5d6eef4cf8, flags=0) at block/io.c:1388 #14 0x00007f5d6cb3ea09 in bdrv_co_do_rw (opaque=0x7f5d38465ee0) at block/io.c:2123 #15 0x00007f5d6caeb03d in coroutine_trampoline (i0=944146112, i1=32605) at coroutine-ucontext.c:80 #16 0x00007f5d69218be0 in __correctly_grouped_prefixwc () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #17 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
Wen Congyang (2): block: Introduce a new API bdrv_co_no_copy_on_readv() Backup: don't do copy-on-read in before_write_notifier block/backup.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------ block/io.c | 12 +++++++++++- include/block/block.h | 9 ++++++--- trace-events | 1 + 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) -- 2.4.3