Re: Booting dom0, various issues since v3.16 kernels

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

On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 03:47:11PM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> 
> Thursday, February 5, 2015, 3:22:49 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > Hey David,
> 
> > after just being in that pain, I thought I might as well give a summary to
> > you/the list. Maybe helpful to not forget which piece should go to which stable...
> 
> > So:
> > v3.16...v3.17.8: Somewhen in between those, the acpi irq seems to have broken.
> >                  I have not yet verified that, but at least three changes in
> >                  3.19-rc6 seem to look related:
> 
> >  * "x86/xen: Treat SCI interrupt as normal GSI interrupt",
> >  * "ACPI: pci: Do not clear pci_dev->irq in acpi_pci_irq_disable()", and
> >  * "x86/xen: Override ACPI IRQ management callback __acpi_unregister_gsi"
> 
> Yes Jiang Liu fixed those and said he would backport the required fixes once
> they where accepted in mainline, put perhaps a polite ping is necessary there.

Would you be OK pinging him please?
> 
> > v3.17.8...v3.18.4: Beside the acpi interrupt, no USB devices (beyond the
> >                    hubs) get initialized. Not sure what fixed it, but it
> >                    looks ok in v3.19-rc7.
> >                    Beside that, there also was a regression in swiotlb
> >                    that I think was passed on to some stable maintainers:
> 
> Probably the same issue as above (for me it fixed a powerbutton issue and some
> pci-passthrough problems).
> 
> And there seems to be more refactoring coming for 3.20 .. so fingerscrossed.
> 
> --
> Sander
> 
> >  * "Revert "swiotlb-xen: pass dev_addr to swiotlb_tbl_unmap_single""
> 
> > v3.18.4..v3.19-rc7: The issues above look to be fixed. Only some Haswell
> >                     based box now crashed on boot as dom0 while parsing
> >                     some ACPI tables (will send more detail seperately).
> >                     This happens only on that host and only when running
> >                     as dom0. Bare-metal is ok and an Opteron based different
> >                     host is also fine.
> 
> > -Stefan
> 
> 
> 
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