[Xen-devel] Re: xen-blkfront: Don't send closing notification to backend in blkfront_closing()

[Joe Jin <joe.jin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/09/11 21:11, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>>> 5. umount the partition/disk in guest, command hung. exactly at here, any
>>>>    IO request to the partition/disk will hang.
>>>
>>> I get that with the patch and without it:
>>>
>>> sh-4.1#
>>> sh-4.1# [  519.814048] block xvda: device/vbd/51712 was hot-unplugged, 1 
>>> stale handles
>>>
>>> sh-4.1# df -h
>>> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> none                  490M  120K  490M   1% /dev
>>> none                  490M  131M  359M  27% 
>>> /lib/modules/3.0.0-rc6-00052-g3edce4b-dirty
>>> shm                    10M     0   10M   0% /dev/shm
>>> var_tmp                10M     0   10M   0% /var/tmp
>>> /dev/xvda              20G  173M   19G   1% /test
>>> sh-4.1# umount /test
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> This caused by backend kthread stopped, any IO request to the real device 
>> will hang, that
>> is the patch intend to resolving.
> 
> I get this hang with the patch (and without). Is there a corresponding patch 
> to the backend?
> (The backend is the same exact version as DomU - 3.0-rc6 + #stable/for-jens).

My guest using linux-3.0 the latest kernel, backend based 2.6.32 kernel.
Without the patch, xm block-detach timeout and umount hang, with the patch xm 
block-detach
timeout but umount works fine.

Thanks,
Joe

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