Re: backport requests for 4.x-testing

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 07:32:36PM +0800, Teck Choon Giam wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org> wrote:
> > On 24/03/2012 18:27, "Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 11:04:13AM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> >>> On 06/03/12 10:13, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>>> For a (hopefully soon) upcoming 4.1.3 and 4.0.4, may I ask to consider
> >>>> the following changesets from -unstable for backporting:
> >>
> >> And also these:
> >> 24140 tools: xend: tolerate empty state/*.xml
> >> 23412 libxc: xc_domain_set_memory_map, xc_get_machine_memory_map (x86, amd64
> >> only)
> >> 23632 libxc: Squash xc_e820.h (and delete) into xenctrl.h
> >> 23225 x86: make the pv-only e820 array be dynamic.
> >> 23426 libxl: Add support for passing in the host's E820 for PCI passthrough
> >> 23428 libxl: Add 'e820_host' option to config file.
> >> 23427 libxl: Convert E820_UNUSABLE and E820_RAM to E820_UNUSABLE as
> >> appropriate.
> >> 24013 x86,hvm: enable VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info op in hvm hypercall
> >
> > Applied 23225 and 24013. The other, toolstack-related, patches I will leave
> > for a tools maintainer to ack or apply.
> 
Hey Teck,

Thanks for reporting!

> With the two backport patches committed in xen-4.1-testing (changeset
> 23271:13741fd6253b), xl list or xl create domU will cause 100% CPU and

xl list?
> stuck for couple minutes with high load average and lastly crash the
> server.  Please consider to revert these two commits as I am not sure
> which one is responsible for such crash.

Hm, let me try seeing which one is the culprit. I think it is 
23225 as it is suppose to go along the other tool one, but lets double check.

> # top -c
> 
> top - 19:30:54 up 6 min,  4 users,  load average: 9.16, 4.34, 1.76
> Tasks: 134 total,   4 running, 130 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  0.1%us,  0.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.8%id,  0.2%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.6%st
> Mem:    355216k total,   179132k used,   176084k free,    14580k buffers
> Swap:  2120568k total,        0k used,  2120568k free,    43896k cached
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  2856 root      20   0 31832 1416 1008 R 99.0  0.4   5:52.98 xl create
> /etc/xen/example-hvm-domU.cfg
>     1 root      20   0 19368 1512 1220 S  0.0  0.4   0:00.35
> /sbin/init
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kindest regards,
> Giam Teck Choon
> 
> 
> >
> >  -- Keir
> >
> >> which I've back-ported to 4.1 (please see attachments)
> >>
> >
> >
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