Re: [PATCH v2 kvmtool] virtio: Fix ordering of virtio_queue__should_signal()

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Hello,

> I *think* this also fixes the VM hang reported in [2], where several
> processes in the guest were stuck in uninterruptible sleep. I am not
> familiar with the block layer, but my theory is that the threads were stuck
> in wait_for_completion_io(), from blk_execute_rq() executing a flush
> request. Milan has agreed to give this patch a spin [3], but that might
> take a while because the bug is not easily reproducible. I believe the
> patch can be merged on its own.
> 
> [1] http://diy.inria.fr/www/index.html?record=aarch64&cat=aarch64-v04&litmus=SB%2Bdmb.sys&cfg=new-web
> [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg204543.html
> [3] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg222201.html
> 

Unfortunately it didn't help. I can see the problem again now.

Thanks.

Best regards.

-- 
Milan Kocian




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