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Date:   Mon, 20 Jan 2020 01:27:50 -0500
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: vhost changes (batched) in linux-next after 12/13 trigger random
 crashes in KVM guests after reboot
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 01:16:50PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 07.01.20 12:55, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I pushed batched-v3 - same head but bisect should work now.
> > 
> 
> With 
> commit 38ced0208491103b50f1056f0d1c8f28e2e13d08 (HEAD)
> Author:     Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> AuthorDate: Wed Dec 11 12:19:26 2019 -0500
> Commit:     Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> CommitDate: Tue Jan 7 06:52:42 2020 -0500
> 
>     vhost: use batched version by default
> 
> 
> I have exactly one successful ping and then the network inside the guest is broken (no packet
> anymore).

Does anything appear in host's dmesg when this happens?


> So you could consider this commit broken (but in a different way and also without any
> guest reboot necessary).
> 
> 
> bisect log:
> git bisect start
> # bad: [d2f6175f52062ee51ee69754a6925608213475d2] vhost: use vhost_desc instead of vhost_log
> git bisect bad d2f6175f52062ee51ee69754a6925608213475d2
> # good: [d1281e3a562ec6a08f944a876481dd043ba739b9] virtio-blk: remove VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI support
> git bisect good d1281e3a562ec6a08f944a876481dd043ba739b9
> # good: [fac7c0f46996e32d996f5c46121df24a6b95ec3b] vhost: option to fetch descriptors through an independent struct
> git bisect good fac7c0f46996e32d996f5c46121df24a6b95ec3b
> # bad: [539eb9d738f048cd7be61f404e8f9c7d9d2ff3cc] vhost: batching fetches
> git bisect bad 539eb9d738f048cd7be61f404e8f9c7d9d2ff3cc