Re: [Xen-devel] Xenalyze?

[Thomas Graves <tgraves@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

-bash-3.2$ hg id
503e0902a86a+ tip
-bash-3.2$ hg parents
changeset:   49:503e0902a86a
tag:         tip
user:        George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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> >



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