From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: "jon.hart" <jon.hart@web.de>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: experienced unstability
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:51:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C61371BF.91A4%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49EDAD52.3040506@web.de>
On 21/04/2009 12:26, "jon.hart" <jon.hart@web.de> wrote:
> If a domU crash happens all I can do is to destroy this guest because it
> is unaccessable in this state.
>
> My questions are: is there an other kernel tree I can try? What can I do
> to figure out what the problem is or to fix this?
You could try http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg in a domU and
see if that stabilises that particular domU. The bug looks possibly like a
spinlock deadlock within the domU kernel, or possibly a bug in the
paravirtualised spinlock implementation.
-- Keir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-21 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-21 11:26 experienced unstability jon.hart
2009-04-21 11:51 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2009-04-21 14:30 ` Dan Magenheimer
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