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

To: Joe Jin <joe.jin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: xen-blkfront: Don't send closing notification to backend in blkfront_closing()
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 09:11:53 -0400
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> >> 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).

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