Thanks for the pointers. I haven't had time to work on this. I will
collect more data and get back as soon as I can.
-dulloor
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Brendan Cully <brendan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 July 2010 at 16:40, Dulloor wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Brendan Cully <brendan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thursday, 22 July 2010 at 13:45, Dulloor wrote:
>> >> My setup is as follows :
>> >> - xen : unstable (rev:21743)
>> >> - Dom0 : pvops (branch : stable-2.6.32.x,
>> >> rev:01d9fbca207ec232c758d991d66466fc6e38349e)
>> >> - Guest Configuration :
>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >> kernel = "/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader"
>> >> builder='hvm'
>> >> name = "linux-hvm"
>> >> vcpus = 4
>> >> memory = 2048
>> >> vif = [ 'type=ioemu, bridge=eth0, mac=00:1c:3e:17:22:13' ]
>> >> disk = [ 'phy:/dev/XenVolG/hvm-linux-snap-1.img,hda,w' ]
>> >> device_model = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
>> >> boot="cd"
>> >> sdl=0
>> >> vnc=1
>> >> vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
>> >> vncconsole=0
>> >> vncpasswd=''
>> >> stdvga=0
>> >> superpages=1
>> >> serial='pty'
>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>
>> >> - Remus command :
>> >> # remus --no-net linux-hvm <dst-ip>
>> >>
>> >> - On primary :
>> >> # xm list
>> >> Name ID Mem VCPUs State
>> >> Time(s)
>> >> linux-hvm 9 2048 4 -b-s--
>> >> 10.8
>> >>
>> >> - On secondary :
>> >> # xm list
>> >> Name ID Mem VCPUs State
>> >> Time(s)
>> >> linux-hvm 11 2048 4 -b----
>> >> 1.9
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I have to issue "xm pause/unpause" explicitly for the backup VM.
>> >> Any recent changes ?
>> >
>> > This probably means there was a timeout on the replication channel,
>> > interpreted by the backup as a failure of the primary, which caused it
>> > to activate itself. You should see evidence of that in the remus
>> > console logs and xend.log and daemon.log (for the disk side).
>> >
>> > Once you've figured out where the timeout happened it'll be easier to
>> > figure out why.
>> >
>> Please find the logs attached. I didn't find anything interesting in
>> daemon.log.
>> What does remus log there ? I am not using disk replication, since I
>> have issues with that .. but that's for another email :)
>
> daemon.log is just for disk replication, so if you're not using it you
> won't see anything.
>
>> The only visible error is in xend-secondary.log around xc_restore :
>> [2010-07-22 16:15:37 2056] DEBUG (balloon:207) Balloon: setting dom0 target
>> to 5
>> 765 MiB.
>> [2010-07-22 16:15:37 2056] DEBUG (XendDomainInfo:1467) Setting memory target
>> of
>> domain Domain-0 (0) to 5765 MiB.
>> [2010-07-22 16:15:37 2056] DEBUG (XendCheckpoint:290) [xc_restore]:
>> /usr/lib/xen
>> /bin/xc_restore 5 1 5 6 1 1 1 0
>> [2010-07-22 16:18:42 2056] INFO (XendCheckpoint:408) xc: error: Error
>> when reading pages (11 = Resource temporarily unavailabl): Internal
>> error
>> [2010-07-22 16:18:42 2056] INFO (XendCheckpoint:408) xc: error: error
>> when buffering batch, finishing (11 = Resource temporarily
>> unavailabl): Internal error
>>
>> If you haven't seen this before, please let me know and I will try
>> debugging more.
>
> I haven't seen that. It looks like read_exact_timed has failed with
> EAGAIN, which is surprising since it explicitly looks for EAGAIN and
> loops on it. Can you log len and errno after line 77 in
> read_exact_timed in tools/libxc/xc_domain_restore.c? ie change
>
> if ( len <= 0 )
> return -1;
>
> to something like
>
> if ( len <= 0 ) {
> fprintf(stderr, "read_exact_timed failed (read rc: %d, errno: %d)\n",
> len, errno);
> return -1;
> }
>
> Another possibility is read is returning 0 here (and EAGAIN is just a
> leftover errno from a previous read), which would indicate that the
> _sender_ hung up the connection. It's hard to tell exactly what's
> going on because you seem to have an enormous amount of clock skew
> between your primary and secondary dom0s and I can't tell whether the
> logs match up.
>
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