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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] reap the blktapctl thread and notify the ta

Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] reap the blktapctl thread and  
 notify the tapdisk backend driver to release resource like      memory.."):
> The bug was with the blktap kernel driver not being able to clean up
> after an unclean exit of qemu. [....]

This is a serious kernel bug which absolutely must be fixed.  There is
no way the userland toolstack can promise that qemu won't just die.

Ian.

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