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From: Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: 4.10.1 Xen crash and reboot
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:44:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181210164423.GT3695@bitfolk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5C0E946E0200007800204CB8@prv1-mh.provo.novell.com>

Hi Jan,

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 09:29:34AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 10.12.18 at 16:58, <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> > Are there any other hypervisor command line options that would be
> > beneficial to set for next time?
> 
> Well, just like for your report from a couple of weeks ago - if this is
> on PCID/INVPCID capable hardware, have you tried disabling use
> of PCID?

Aside from a quick test at Andrew's suggestion I have not, because I
thought there were negative repercussions of this, and up until this
point it seemed like problems were restricted to guests and could be
avoided by guest kernel upgrade.

The previous issue with the memory corruption in guests was avoided
by booting with pcid=0.

Does setting pcid=0 leave me increasingly vulnerable to Meltdown
and/or negatively impact performance?

Thanks,
Andy

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-10 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-10 15:58 4.10.1 Xen crash and reboot Andy Smith
2018-12-10 16:29 ` Jan Beulich
2018-12-10 16:44   ` Andy Smith [this message]
2018-12-10 17:12     ` Jan Beulich
2018-12-21 18:55 ` Andy Smith
2019-01-01 19:46   ` Andy Smith
2019-01-04 10:16     ` Jan Beulich
2019-01-04 12:28       ` Andy Smith
2019-01-30 18:53     ` Andy Smith
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-01-07 11:12 Patrick Beckmann
2019-02-11 10:41 ` Patrick Beckmann

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