Re: Windows "heinsenbug" (WAS: Re: Notes Design Session: Making Releases Lessons Learned: Improving Our Release Process and Tooling)

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>]

Hi Paul,

On 13/09/17 19:26, Paul Durrant wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Xen-devel [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of
>> Julien Grall
>> Sent: 13 September 2017 10:52
>> To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@citrix.com>; Jan Beuli ch <jbeulich@suse.com>
>> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>; Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>;
>> ross.philipson@gmail.com; lars.kurth.xen@gmail.com; xen-
>> devel@lists.xen.org; committers@xenproject.org
>> Subject: [Xen-devel] Windows "heinsenbug" (WAS: Re: Notes Design
>> Session: Making Releases Lessons Learned: Improving Our Release Process
>> and Tooling)
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On 07/27/2017 05:56 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
>>> Jan Beulich writes ("Re: Notes Design Session: Making Releases Lessons
>> Learned: Improving Our Release Process and Tooling"):
>>>> [Lars:]
>>>>> Ian: These are most likely software problems, most likely in Xen.
>>>>> ISSUE: nobody wants to debug Windows Heisenbugs
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, I think we believe to have understood what the issue is, it's just
>> that
>>>> the change needed is on the tool stack side (gracefully deal with a domain
>>>> rebooting while being migrated).
>>>
>>> No, the problem is that we don't understand why the domain is
>>> rebooting.  It should not be.
>>
>> This bug still seem to be around and likely going to impact once again
>> the release testing.
>>
>> As discussed during the summit, I am really thinking to make this
>> "heinsenbug" a blocker until somehow finally spend sometimes
>> investigating the problem and suggest actions.
> 
> If testing was done with PV drivers installed then we could get a lot more information into the logs. BSODs vs. clean shutdowns (perhaps due to Windows Update) would then become obvious.

Would it be feasible to get those installed in osstest?

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall

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