linux-kernel - Re: xen-blkfront: Don't send closing notification to backend in blkfront

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Message-ID: <20110709131153.GA25916@dumpdata.com>
Date:	Sat, 9 Jul 2011 09:11:53 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Joe Jin <joe.jin@...cle.com>
Cc:	Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@...rix.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>, annie.li@...cle.com,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	Kurt C Hackel <KURT.HACKEL@...cle.com>,
	Greg Marsden <greg.marsden@...cle.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: xen-blkfront: Don't send closing  notification to backend in
 blkfront_closing()

> >> 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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