From: "Ing. Ricardo Brisighelli" <ricardo@estilo.com.ar>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [xl restore and migrating problem - hardware compatibility]
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 10:24:30 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11963615.l4C2HeH9aP@rick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1488cbde-b327-82c8-fc5c-4ba717f9fcbb@citrix.com>
El Vie 23 Dic 2016 23:22:17 Andrew Cooper escribió:
> On 23/12/16 22:56, Ing. Ricardo Brisighelli wrote:
> > El Vie 23 Dic 2016 17:16:32 Andrew Cooper escribió:
> >> On 23/12/16 17:00, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> >>> On 23/12/16 16:32, Ing. Ricardo Brisighelli wrote:
> >>>> Hi, i'm gentoo user and try with xen 4.6.3 and 4.7.1 in both version
> >>>> have the
> >>>> same problem.
> >>>>
> >>>> My cpu is AMD A10-7860K
> >>>
> >>> This issue has been reported before ("[Xen-devel] "X86_PV_VCPU_MSRS
> >>> record truncated" during domain restore").
> >>>
> >>> I submitted patches to fix it ("Fix issues with zero-length records in
> >>> migration v2" in July even), which made no progress. As the author of
> >>> migration v2, and unfortunately of this bug, I stand by v1 of my fix
> >>> without any further modification.
> >>>
> >>> You can find the patches here:
> >>> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/andrewcoop/xen.git;a=shortlog;h
> >>> =r
> >>> efs/heads/tools-fix-zero-length-records
> >>
> >> If you don't want to take patches, you should be able to work around the
> >> issue by booting Xen with
> >>
> >> cpuid_mask_ext_ecx=fbffffff
> >>
> >> Specifically, you are looking to hide the DBEXT feature from Xen so it
> >> doesn't choose to insert them into the migration stream to start with.
> >> This migration bug only manifests when the hardware is capable, but the
> >> VM isn't using the feature.
> >>
> >> ~Andrew
> >
> > Hi Andrew, first i try boot xen with cpuid_mask_ext_ecx=fbffffff, restore
> > and migration works well, then try apply the patchs
> >
> > tools/python: Adjust migration v2 library to warn about...
> > tools/libxc: Avoid generating inappropriate zero-length...
> > tools/libxc: Tolerate zero-length records in migration...
> >
> > remove cpuid_mask, recompile and install xen-4.7.1, reboot and the problem
> > persist. I'm missing something?
>
> Does Gentoo split the various parts of Xen apart into sub-packages? This
> needs to be the dom0 tools build, not the hypervisor build.
>
> ~Andrew
>
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I recompile xen-tools and all works well.
Thanks very much Andrew
Regards
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-23 16:32 [xl restore and migrating problem - hardware compatibility] Ing. Ricardo Brisighelli
2016-12-23 17:00 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-12-23 17:16 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-12-23 22:56 ` Ing. Ricardo Brisighelli
2016-12-23 23:22 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-12-24 13:24 ` Ing. Ricardo Brisighelli [this message]
2016-12-26 20:43 ` Doug Goldstein
2016-12-28 14:50 ` Julien Grall
2017-01-04 11:00 ` Wei Liu
2016-12-28 14:58 ` Julien Grall
2016-12-28 15:00 ` Processed: " xen
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