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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: So I tried to use xentrace...
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 22:03:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE4F088.8040008@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE48332.6040209@eu.citrix.com>

On 05/07/2010 02:16 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>>> (XEN) ----[ Xen-4.1-unstable  x86_64  debug=y  Not tainted ]----
>>>> (XEN) CPU:    1
>>>> (XEN) RIP:    e008:[<ffff82c4801215b3>] check_lock+0x1b/0x45
>>>>           
>>
>> This suggests the problem is with misusing a lock in the wrong interrupt
>> context, rather than anything to do with sizes.
>>   
> Except that, it works for me if I use -S 32, and doesn't if I use -S
> 512 (on my 2-core box, equivalent # of pages to -S 256 on your 4-core
> box). :-)  Try it, I suspect it will work.

Yes, it does.  But I'm seeing some pretty odd things while xentrace is
running: first time all my SATA drives stopped responding, and the
second time my ethernet device started getting tx watchdog timeouts. 
Perhaps the large amount of IO caused by xentrace is causing other bugs
to become apparent, but this has been an otherwise very stable system...

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-08  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-30 21:34 So I tried to use xentrace Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-04-30 21:43 ` Keir Fraser
2010-05-03 20:36   ` George Dunlap
2010-05-07 20:48 ` George Dunlap
2010-05-07 20:59   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-05-07 21:16     ` George Dunlap
2010-05-08  5:03       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2010-05-11 18:56         ` George Dunlap

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