From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>
To: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: xl vcpu-set crashes Dom0
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:51:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C991BB40.13F14%keir.xen@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D6BDA07.2010707@amd.com>
On 28/02/2011 17:23, "Andre Przywara" <andre.przywara@amd.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as mentioned earlier today I had some issues with patch 22934, which
> decreases the number of vCPUs for Dom0 in case of cpupool-numa-split.
> I now found that this is not directly related to this patch, as it
> triggers also with "xl vcpu-set". So far I tried the following combinations:
> c/s 22956 on a machine with 48 physical CPUs:
> not restricted dom0:
> xl vcpu-set 0 6 => crashes
> xl vcpu-set 0 47 => crashes
> dom0_max_vcpus=6
> xl vcpu-set 0 5 => crashes
> xm vcpu-set 0 5 => crashes
>
> The only message I get is:
> root@dosorca:~# xm vcpu-set 0 5
> (XEN) Domain 0 crashed: rebooting machine in 5 seconds.
Dom0 has oopsed. If you have a synchronous log of dmesg (e.g., via serial)
then you should be able to get an oops message and backtrace from dom0
kernel. My first guess would be this is a bug in the kernel's handling of
cpu hotplug requests via xenstore.
-- Keir
> Debugging turned out that for instance the libxl_set_vcpuonline()
> returns without an error, but the machine then crashes afterwards.
>
> Can someone reproduce this? Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Andre.
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2011-02-28 17:23 xl vcpu-set crashes Dom0 Andre Przywara
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