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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [OSSTEST PATCH 4/4] ts-logs-capture: Run xenctx earlier
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 09:55:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1435913741.9447.19.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435857067-10704-5-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>

On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 18:11 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Break fetch_xenctx_guest out into its own function, and run it before
> serial_fetch_logs.
> 
> This is relevant because serial_fetch_logs sends the Xen debug keys,
> which might dislodge a stuck guest - and, if it does, we would like to
> have captured the stuck state with xenctx, rather than the unstuck
> one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>

Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>

At first I wondered if before and after might be useful, but I don't
think the unstuck state would be useful. However two (or more)
back-to-back ctxt's can often be useful, by giving a snapshot of the
loop the guest is stuck.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-03  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-02 17:11 [OSSTEST PATCH 0/4] Fix use of xenctx Ian Jackson
2015-07-02 17:11 ` [OSSTEST PATCH 1/4] guest_find_domid: Set Vcpus correctly Ian Jackson
2015-07-03  8:52   ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-02 17:11 ` [OSSTEST PATCH 2/4] ts-logs-capture: Find xenctx in /usr/local as well Ian Jackson
2015-07-03  8:52   ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-02 17:11 ` [OSSTEST PATCH 3/4] ts-logs-capture: Break out guest listing and do it earlier Ian Jackson
2015-07-03  8:54   ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-02 17:11 ` [OSSTEST PATCH 4/4] ts-logs-capture: Run xenctx earlier Ian Jackson
2015-07-03  8:55   ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-07-03 11:25     ` Ian Jackson
2015-07-03 11:49       ` [OSSTEST PATCH 1/6] guest_find_domid: Set Vcpus correctly Ian Jackson
2015-07-03 11:49         ` [OSSTEST PATCH 2/6] ts-logs-capture: Find xenctx in /usr/local as well Ian Jackson
2015-07-03 11:49         ` [OSSTEST PATCH 3/6] ts-logs-capture: Break out guest listing and do it earlier Ian Jackson
2015-07-03 11:49         ` [OSSTEST PATCH 4/6] ts-logs-capture: Run xenctx earlier Ian Jackson
2015-07-03 11:49         ` [OSSTEST PATCH 5/6] ts-logs-capture: Run xenctx twice for each guest vcpu Ian Jackson
2015-07-03 12:07           ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-03 11:49         ` [OSSTEST PATCH 6/6] ts-logs-capture: Explicitly set xenctx capture filename Ian Jackson
2015-07-03 12:08           ` Ian Campbell
2015-07-03 13:20             ` Ian Jackson

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