Re: [Xen-users] Xen 4.1.0 + stable-2.6.32.x kernel = crashes, hangs, reboots

[agent 8131 <agent.8131@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/18/2011 01:22 AM, Ian Tobin wrote:
> What is your grub config set to?
>
> Ian
title           Xen 4.1.0 / Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS, kernel 2.6.32.39
root            (hd0,0)
kernel          /boot/xen-4.1.0.gz dom0_mem=768M
module          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.39 root=/dev/md0 ro console=tty0
module          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.39


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> Subject: [Xen-users] Xen 4.1.0 + stable-2.6.32.x kernel = crashes,
> hangs,reboots
>
> I upgraded a test system from Xen 3.3 to Xen 4.1.0.  I've compiled a
> kernel from the xen/stable-2.6.32.x branch from
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git.  While I
> can get virtual machines from Xen 3.3 to run with some configuration
> changes I've been unable to keep the host system stable for more than a
> few hours when running domU's.  This could be hardware related as this
> is hardly server grade hardware.  This is an AMD Athlon X2 on a consumer
> motherboard (ASUS I think).  I have run memtest for many hours to see if
> this was related to bad memory but all memory has tested fine.  After a
> few hours of running domU's the system will either reboot, hard lock
> (completely unresponsive), crash (completely unresponsive plus stack
> trace displayed), or soft lock (magic sysrq still working).
>
> I've tried running domU's using both xl and xm but both were unstable.
> Here is the xen options for the kernel configuration:
>
> CONFIG_XEN=y
> CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y
> CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=128
> CONFIG_XEN_SAVE_RESTORE=y
> # CONFIG_XEN_DEBUG_FS is not set
> CONFIG_SWIOTLB_XEN=y
> CONFIG_MICROCODE_XEN=y
> CONFIG_XEN_DOM0=y
> CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST=y
> CONFIG_XEN_DOM0_PCI=y
> # CONFIG_XEN_PCI_PASSTHROUGH is not set
> CONFIG_PCI_XEN=y
> CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_FRONTEND=m
> CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND=m
> CONFIG_NETXEN_NIC=m
> CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND=m
> CONFIG_XEN_KBDDEV_FRONTEND=m
> CONFIG_HVC_XEN=y
> CONFIG_XEN_WDT=m
> CONFIG_XEN_FBDEV_FRONTEND=m
> CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON=y
> CONFIG_XEN_SCRUB_PAGES=y
> CONFIG_XEN_DEV_EVTCHN=y
> CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND=y
> CONFIG_XEN_NETDEV_BACKEND=y
> CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND=y
> CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_TAP=y
> CONFIG_XEN_BLKBACK_PAGEMAP=y
> CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND=y
> CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_VPCI=y
> # CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_PASS is not set #
> CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_SLOT is not set #
> CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BACKEND_CONTROLLER is not set #
> CONFIG_XEN_PCIDEV_BE_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_XENFS=m
> CONFIG_XEN_COMPAT_XENFS=y CONFIG_XEN_SYS_HYPERVISOR=y CONFIG_XEN_MCE=y
> CONFIG_XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND=m CONFIG_XEN_GNTDEV=y CONFIG_XEN_S3=y
> CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR_XEN=y CONFIG_XEN_PLATFORM_PCI=m
>
> I've attached a couple of screenshots of stack traces when those have
> been present.  Are there known problems with stability in Xen 4.1?  Is
> this possibly a hardware issue that for some reason was not a problem
> under Xen 3.3?  Have I inadvertently enabled an unstable kernel module?
>    Any advice on how to move forward and resolve this issue.  I'd like to
> upgrade my Xen 3.x servers but only once I can be certain there is a
> stable platform for migrate too.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.  Thank you.
>
>
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