From: Sarah Newman <srn@prgmr.com>
To: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Reproducible hang with cstate disabled
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:47:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56457975.6030007@prgmr.com> (raw)
I saw xen hang after
(XEN) HVM: HAP page sizes: 4kB, 2MB, 1GB
(
The line that's supposed to be there is
(XEN) Brought up 24 CPUs
After power cycling I went into the BIOS. In the BIOS, C-STATE was disabled. I changed it to
* Intel(R) C-STATE tech [Enabled]
* C3 State [ACPI C2]
* C6 State [Enabled]
* C State package limit setting [Auto]
* C1 Auto Demotion [Disabled]
* C3 Auto Demotion [Disabled]
After making the above changes it booted up correctly.
I turned C-STATE off again and it hung at the same place.
I turned C-STATE back on and it worked again.
I have not tested on another machine yet, but I expect the same behavior.
I'm using the latest official version from Xen4CentOS for CentOS 6:
xen_major : 4
xen_minor : 4
xen_extra : .3-3.el6
xen_version : 4.4.3-3.el6
cc_compiler : gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
cc_compile_by : mockbuild
cc_compile_domain : centos.org
cc_compile_date : Thu Oct 29 12:18:52 UTC 2015
Here are the rest of the CPU BIOS settings (left unchanged)
* CPU Ratio [Auto]
* C1E Support [Enabled]
* Hardware Prefetcher [Enabled]
* Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch [Enabled]
* DCU Prefetcher [Enabled]
* Data Reuse Optimization [Enabled]
* MPS and ACPI MADT ordering [Modern ordering]
* Intel(R) Virtualization Tech [Enabled]
* Execute-Disable Bit Capability [Enabled]
* Intel AES-NI [Enabled]
* Simultaneous Multi-Threading [Enabled]
* Active Processor Cores [All]
* Intel(R) EIST Technology [Enabled]
* Intel(R) Turbo Boost [Disabled]
This is the CPU:
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5640
CPUID :206C2
Microcode Rev :14
flags : fpu de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mca cmov pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc
pni pclmulqdq monitor est ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes hypervisor lahf_lm ida arat epb dtherm
Is this something that should be or has been fixed? If this was already fixed, can I have the commit ID so I can check if it's in the Xen4CentOS
commit history?
We have an idle machine with the same hardware if that helps with testing.
Thanks, Sarah
next reply other threads:[~2015-11-13 5:47 UTC|newest]
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2015-11-13 5:47 Sarah Newman [this message]
2015-11-13 8:16 ` Reproducible hang with cstate disabled Jan Beulich
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