On 17/03/2017 18:32, Ed Swierk wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 17/03/2017 18:11, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 17/03/2017 17:55, Ed Swierk wrote:
>>>> I'm running into the same problem taking an external snapshot with a
>>>> virtio-blk drive with iothread, so it's not specific to virtio-scsi.
>>>> Run a Linux guest on qemu master
>>>>
>>>> qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -enable-kvm -monitor
>>>> telnet:0.0.0.0:1234,server,nowait -m 1024 -object
>>>> iothread,id=iothread1 -drive file=/x/drive.qcow2,if=none,id=drive0
>>>> -device virtio-blk-pci,iothread=iothread1,drive=drive0
>>>>
>>>> Then in the monitor
>>>>
>>>> snapshot_blkdev drive0 /x/snap1.qcow2
>>>>
>>>> qemu bombs with
>>>>
>>>> qemu-system-x86_64: /x/qemu/include/block/aio.h:457:
>>>> aio_enable_external: Assertion `ctx->external_disable_cnt > 0' failed.
>>>>
>>>> whereas without the iothread the assertion failure does not occur.
>>>
>>> Please try this patch:
>>
>> Hmm, no. I'll post the full fix on top of John Snow's patches.
>
> OK. Incidentally, testing with virtio-blk I bisected the assertion
> failure to b2c2832c6140cfe3ddc0de2d77eeb0b77dea8fd3 ("block: Add Error
> parameter to bdrv_append()").
And in particular to this:
+ bdrv_set_backing_hd(bs_new, bs_top, &local_err);
+ if (local_err) {
+ error_propagate(errp, local_err);
+ goto out;
+ }
change_parent_backing_link(bs_top, bs_new);
- /* FIXME Error handling */
- bdrv_set_backing_hd(bs_new, bs_top, &error_abort);
Paolo
