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From: Sergey Dyasli <sergey.dyasli@citrix.com>
To: "JBeulich@suse.com" <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Dyasli <sergey.dyasli@citrix.com>,
	Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	"Kevin.Mayer@gdata.de" <Kevin.Mayer@gdata.de>,
	Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Anshul Makkar <anshul.makkar@citrix.com>,
	"jun.nakajima@intel.com" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMX: fix VMCS race on context-switch paths
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:55:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1487170512.3588.9.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58A463BA020000780013A37D@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 06:20 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 15.02.17 at 11:27, <sergey.dyasli@citrix.com> wrote:
> > 
> > This is what I'm getting during the original test case (32 VMs reboot):
> > 
> > (XEN) [ 1407.789329] Watchdog timer detects that CPU12 is stuck!
> > (XEN) [ 1407.795726] ----[ Xen-4.6.1-xs-local  x86_64  debug=n  Not tainted ]----
> 
> Hmm, this was with a non-debug build, so the ASSERT() in
> vmx_vmcs_reload() was a no-op, yet it would have been useful
> to know whether active_cpu was -1 when getting stuck here.
> Btw - there was no nested virt in the picture in your try, was
> there?

No nested virt is involved in the test case.

Is it worth giving your patch another try with removing ctxt_switch_same()
since we figured out that vmx_do_resume() will reload vmcs either way?
And I will also update vmx_vmcs_reload() from your last email.

-- 
Thanks,
Sergey
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-14 10:23 [PATCH 0/2] x86: context switch handling adjustments Jan Beulich
2017-02-14 10:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] VMX: fix VMCS race on context-switch paths Jan Beulich
2017-02-14 15:16   ` Andrew Cooper
2017-02-15  8:37     ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-15 11:29       ` Andrew Cooper
2017-02-15 10:27   ` Sergey Dyasli
2017-02-15 11:00     ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-15 11:13       ` Sergey Dyasli
2017-02-15 11:24         ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-15 11:39     ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-15 11:48       ` Sergey Dyasli
2017-02-15 11:55         ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-15 13:03           ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-15 13:40             ` Sergey Dyasli
2017-02-15 14:29               ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-15 14:44                 ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-15 13:20     ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-15 14:55       ` Sergey Dyasli [this message]
2017-02-15 15:15         ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-16  8:29           ` Sergey Dyasli
2017-02-16  9:26             ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-14 10:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: package up context switch hook pointers Jan Beulich
2017-02-14 15:26   ` Andrew Cooper
2017-02-15  8:42     ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-15 11:34       ` Andrew Cooper
2017-02-15 11:40         ` Jan Beulich
2017-02-14 22:18   ` Boris Ostrovsky

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