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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix locking bug in vcpu_migrate

To: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix locking bug in vcpu_migrate
From: John Weekes <lists.xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:33:26 -0700
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On 4/22/2011 11:43 AM, Keir Fraser wrote:
It's odd that it seemed to lead to such a big difference for me, then.
>  I'll do some further tests -- maybe I changed something else to cause
>  the behavior, or the problem is more random than I thought and just
>  hasn't occurred for me yet in all the new tests.

I did further testing and determined that my domU was starting properly because I had only tested once or twice with Debian Squeeze after applying the patch; I had then done more extensive testing only under a Win2k3 domU. It seems that Win2k3 domUs don't have the same issue.

Back on the Squeeze domU, I am reliably seeing the BUG again, with either configuration.

I have rolled back schedule.c to pre-22948, when it was much simpler, and that seems to have resolved this particular bug.

Now, a different credit2 bug has occurred, though only once for me so far; with the other bug, I was seeing a panic with every 1 or 2 domU startups, but I have seen the new bug on one test out of 15.

Specifically, I have triggered the BUG_ON in csched_domcntl. The line number is not the standard one because I have added further debugging, but the BUG_ON is:

BUG_ON(svc->rqd != RQD(ops, svc->vcpu->processor));

The bt being:

(XEN)    [<ffff82c480119578>] csched_dom_cntl+0x11a/0x185
(XEN)    [<ffff82c48011f24d>] sched_adjust+0x102/0x1f9
(XEN)    [<ffff82c480102ee5>] do_domctl+0xb25/0x1250
(XEN)    [<ffff82c4801ff0e8>] syscall_enter+0xc8/0x122

Also, in three of those last 15 startups, my domU froze three times (consuming no CPU and seemingly doing nothing), somewhere in this block of code in ring_read in tools/firmware/hvmloader/xenbus.c -- I added debug information that allowed me to narrow it down. This function is being called when it is writing the SMBIOS tables. I can't tell whether this is related to the credit2 problem. (The domU can be "destroyed" to get out of it).

        /* Don't overrun the producer pointer */
        while ( (part = MASK_XENSTORE_IDX(rings->rsp_prod -
                                          rings->rsp_cons)) == 0 )
            ring_wait();
        /* Don't overrun the end of the ring */
if ( part > (XENSTORE_RING_SIZE - MASK_XENSTORE_IDX(rings->rsp_cons)) )
            part = XENSTORE_RING_SIZE - MASK_XENSTORE_IDX(rings->rsp_cons);
        /* Don't read more than we were asked for */
        if ( part > len )
            part = len;

Note that I am using stubdoms.

I would be happy to temporarily turn over the reins on this machine to you or George, if you'd like to debug any of these issues directly. I may not be able to continue experimenting in the short term here myself due to time constraints.

-John

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