Re: [Xen-devel] Problem with PV disk and iSCSI

[Stefan de Konink <skinkie@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Gary Grebus schreef:
> I've run into a problem on 3.1.2 with an HVM guest using PV disks.  In
> dom0, the physical disk is accessed using iSCSI.  The symptom is that
> applications in dom0 which are monitoring the iSCSI network interface
> (e.g. tcpdump) die with EFAULT errors.
> 
> When the block I/O completes, it looks like blkback is doing a
> GNTTABOP_unmap_grant_ref on a guest page, even though the dom0 kernel
> has done get_page() on it and still holds references.  
> 
> The page had been passed through iSCSI into the network stack, so it
> ends up referenced by one or more skb's.  Because there was an AF_PACKET
> socket open, a clone of the skb ends up queued for an indeterminate
> amount on that socket queue.  When the application finally gets around
> to reading the data, the page is no longer mapped, and the read fails
> trying to copy the data out of the kernel.
> 
> Has anyone else seen anything similar?  I mentioned tcpdump, but the
> problem also shows up with dhcpcd, which needs to process packets at the
> ethernet layer.  
> 
> I'm thinking blkback will have to make a dom0 copy of the page before
> doing the unmap if there are still extra references?

I'm running the same setup. Are you using iSCSI over the same interface
as your Xen bridge?


Stefan
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