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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Cc: jeremy@goop.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	ian.campbell@citrix.com, gurudas.pai@oracle.com,
	guru.anbalagane@oracle.com, greg.marsden@oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch] xenfb: fix xenfb suspend/resume race
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:34:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110103163418.GA14102@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D1D2A2D.80206@oracle.com>

> > I am unclear from your description whether the patch fixes
> > the problem (I would presume so). Or does it take a long time
> > to hit this race?
> > 
> Yes, more than 100 migrations. we hit this issue around 3 times.

OK, so you are still trying to find the culprit.

Did you look at this patch from Ian:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/403192/

?
> 
> I dumped vmcore when guest crashed, from vmcore everything
> looked good, fb_info, xenfb_info and so on.

And the event channels are correct?

.. snip..
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/events.c b/drivers/xen/events.c
> index ac7b42f..4cfb5e2 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/events.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/events.c
> @@ -175,6 +175,8 @@ static struct irq_info *info_for_irq(unsigned irq)
>  
>  static unsigned int evtchn_from_irq(unsigned irq)
>  {
> +	if (unlikely(irq < 0 || irq >= nr_irqs))
> +		return 0;

You could insert a WARN_ON here to see see if you get this during your
migration process.

Or use xen_raw_printk in case the guest is hung for good.

>  	return info_for_irq(irq)->evtchn;
>  }
>  
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-03 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-30 12:56 [patch] xenfb: fix xenfb suspend/resume race Joe Jin
2010-12-30 16:40 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-12-31  0:56   ` Joe Jin
2011-01-03 16:34     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-01-04  0:34       ` [Xen-devel] " Joe Jin
2011-01-04 11:15   ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-06  7:14     ` Joe Jin
2011-01-06  8:02       ` Ian Campbell
2011-01-06  8:14         ` Joe Jin
2011-01-07  6:43           ` [Xen-devel] " Joe Jin
2011-01-06  8:47         ` Ian Campbell

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