On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On 18/03/2015 14:11, Peter Crosthwaite wrote: >> So I actually bisected this as a recent regression on: >> >> commit a464982499b2f637f6699e3d03e0a9d2e0b5288b (refs/bisect/bad) >> Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> >> Date: Wed Feb 11 17:15:18 2015 +0100 >> rcu: run RCU callbacks under the BQL >> This needs to go away sooner or later, but one complication is the >> complex VFIO data structures that are modified in instance_finalize. >> Take a shortcut for now. >> >> Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >> Tested-by: Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> >> >> Segfault backtrace: > > Please rebase to 2.3.0-rc0 to weed out the two problems related to early > qemu_mutex_lock_iothread() (this one, and the breakage of -daemonize). >
So I am fully up to date with my baseline but the bug still replicates intermittently. I did however notice during the bisect that the failure probability did improve later in the history probably due to the patches you refer to. I have a replicator handy if needed? Regards, Peter > Paolo >