Re: [PATCH] drivers: xen-blkfront: blkif_recover: recheck feature-persistent

From: Roger Pau Monné
Date: Mon Jun 01 2015 - 03:50:48 EST


El 26/05/15 a les 2.11, Bob Liu ha escrit:
> When migrate from !feature-persistent host to feature-persistent host, domU
> still think new host/backend don't support persistent.
> Dmesg like:
> backed has not unmapped grant: 839
> backed has not unmapped grant: 773
> backed has not unmapped grant: 773
> backed has not unmapped grant: 773
> backed has not unmapped grant: 839
>
> We should recheck whether the new backend support feature-persistent during
> blkif_recover().

Right, we recheck for indirect-descriptors but not persistent grants.

Do you think it makes sense to split the part of blkfront_connect that
checks for optional features, like persistent grants, indirect
descriptors and flush/barrier features to a separate function and call
it from both blkfront_connect and blkif_recover?

Roger.

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