Re: Xenalyze?

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

I had a work-around for the problem in a local patch-queue somewhere.
I've pushed it  (along with a bunch of local stuff I had lying around
) -- do a pull and let me know if it works better.

 -George

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Thomas Graves <tgraves@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>
> -bash-3.2$ hg id
> 503e0902a86a+ tip
> -bash-3.2$ hg parents
> changeset:   49:503e0902a86a
> tag:         tip
> user:        George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
> date:        Tue Jun 22 17:11:51 2010 +0100
> summary:     More xenalyze type fixes
>
> I’m using a clone of http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/xenalyze.hg and then
> patched with the patch -p1 < back-patches/3.4.diff and make on rhel5.4.
>
> Let me know if you
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>
> On 7/8/10 9:24 AM, "George Dunlap" <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>
> The file length itself probably isn't that important, but rather the
> fact that longer trace files increase the opportunity for certain
> kinds of probabilistic problematic events to occur.
>
> The problem here looks like a problem with TSC skew -- xenalyze is
> having trouble figuring out how to process the records in the right
> order because of drift in the TSC value across cores (that's what the
> "Possible tsc skew" messages are about), and end up breaking an
> assumption because it's failing (hence the "FATAL: p->current = NULL"
> message) .
>
> Can you give me the cs of the tip of your hg tree?  I'll take a look
> and see if I have a local fix.
>
>  -George
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Thomas Graves <tgraves@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm new to using xentrace and xenalyze and I am having problems running
>> xenalyze on a large trace file. It is always giving me a fatal error. If I
>> run it on like a 30 second trace it seems to work fine.
>>
>> Is this a known issue or am I possibly doing something wrong?  Do you
>> think
>> it would work if I truncate the file or would it be missing stuff xenalyze
>> expects?   If there is no way to truncate it  perhaps I'll see if I can
>> modify it to only show me certain time frame - I haven't looked at the
>> code
>> yet so I guess I'll have to see if that is possible.
>>
>> I'm using xen3.4.3 with rhel5.4 dom0 running a rhel5.4 vm.
>>
>> I'm trying to debug a vm hang at boot which sporadically occurs so I just
>> have trace running while I do a bunch of creates and deletes so the trace
>> file gets fairly large.  If you have other ideas what might work better I
>> would be interested in hearing them.
>>
>>
>> -------
>> -bash-3.2$ ls -la trace.raw
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13238044416 Jul  7 23:02 trace.raw
>> -bash-3.2$ xenalyze/xenalyze --cpu-hz=2.43G --summary  trace.raw > out
>>
>> -------
>> ..
>> ..
>> ..
>> ..
>> runstate_change old_runstate blocked, d1402v0 runstate runnable.  Possible
>> tsc skew.
>> runstate_change old_runstate blocked, d1402v0 runstate runnable.  Possible
>> tsc skew.
>> runstate_change old_runstate runnable, d1402v0 runstate running.  Possible
>> tsc skew.
>>  Not updating.
>> FATAL: p->current null
>> ]  20f101(20:f:101) 3 [ 802061ea ffffffff f ]
>> -----
>>
>>
>> Any help is appreciated,
>> Thanks,
>> Tom Graves
>>
>>
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