Re: Xen4.2-rc4 test result

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

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 07:02:40AM +0000, Ren, Yongjie wrote:
> Hi All,
> We did a round testing for RC4 (CS# 25834) in xen-4.2-testing tree with Linux 3.5.3 dom0.
> We found 1 new issue (which is a Dom0 issue and has nothing to do with Xen4.2), and no fixed issue.
> 
> New bug (1):
> 1. XenU PV guest with vif network can't boot up with Linux3.6 dom0
>   http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1832
>   --A regression from Linux 3.5 to 3.6.

Oh, that is the xennet_poll one?That is fixed in v3.6-rc5. That is a
domU problem - not domU. This git commit fixes it:

commit 3683243b2c551e58082b179fd153c7d43ddc503b
Author: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 22 00:26:47 2012 +0000

    xen-netfront: use __pskb_pull_tail to ensure linear area is big
enough on RX
    

> 
> The following are some of the old issues which we guess are something important.
> Some of the old issues:
> 1. Fail to probe NIC driver to HVM domU (with 3.5/3.6 Linux as Dom0)
>   http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1824
>   -- We already know the corrupt commit in Linux tree. Konrad will try to fix it.
> 2. Poor performance when do guest save/restore and migration with linux 3.x dom0
>   http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1784
> 3. after detaching a VF from a guest, shutdown the guest is very slow (related to stdvga setting)
>   http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1812
> 4. Dom0 cannot be shut down before PCI device detachment from a running guest
>   http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1826
> 5. Guest hang after resuming from S3
>   http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1828
> 6. Dom0 S3 resume fails
>   http://bugzilla.xen.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1707
> 
> Best Regards,
>      Yongjie (Jay)