Re: [Xen-devel] Kernel bug from 3.0 (was phy disks and vifs timing out in DomU)

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Anthony Wright wrote:
> On 26/08/2011 13:16, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Anthony Wright wrote:
> >> On 19/08/2011 13:56, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:22:15AM +0100, Anthony Wright wrote:
> >>>> On 03/08/2011 16:28, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 08:53:02AM +0100, Anthony Wright wrote:
> >>>>>> I've just upgraded to xen 4.1.1 with a stock 3.0 kernel on dom0 (with
> >>>>>> the vga-support patch backported). I can't get my DomU's to work due to
> >>>>>> the phy disks and vifs timing out in DomU and looking through my logs
> >>>>>> this morning I'm getting a consistent kernel bug report with xen
> >>>>>> mentioned at the top of the stack trace and vifdisconnect mentioned on
> >>>>> Yikes! Ian any ideas what to try?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Anthony, can you compile the kernel with debug=y and when this happens
> >>>>> see what 'xl dmesg' gives? Also there is also the 'xl debug-keys g' 
> >>>>> which
> >>>>> should dump the grants in use.. that might help a bit.
> >>>> I've compiled a 3.0.1 kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG=Y (a number of other
> >>>> config values appeared at this point, and I took defaults for them).
> >>>>
> >>>> The output from /var/log/messages & 'xl dmesg' is attached. There was no
> >>>> output from 'xl debug-keys g'.
> >>> Ok, so I am hitting this too - I was hoping that the patch from Stefano
> >>> would have fixed the issue, but sadly it did not.
> >>>
> >>> Let me (I am traveling right now) see if I can come up with an internim
> >>> solution until Ian comes with the right fix.
> >>>
> >> On different hardware with the same software I'm also getting problems
> >> starting DomUs, but this time the error is different. I've attached a
> >> copy of the xl console output, but basically the server hang at
> >> "Mount-cache hash table entries: 512". Again the VM is paravirtualised,
> >> and again I get a qemu-dm process for it.
> >>
> >> The references to this message are normally related to memory issues,
> >> but the server has only 1000M of ram, so can't see it causing too much
> >> of a problem.
> >>
> >> Is this related to the other problems I'm seeing or completely separate?
> > Could you please post your VM config file?
> Attached are two VM config files. The file xen-config-A is the xen
> server that fails at the Mount-cache line. The file xen-config-B is the
> xen server that timeout attaching to some of the xvds and the vif.
> 

can you try to use losetup to setup a loop device for each of the
tap:aio files you have and then specify phy:/dev/loopN in the config
file rather than tap:aio?

For example I mean:

losetup /dev/loop0 /workspace/agent/appliances/XenFileServer-3.20/rootfs

then in the config file:

phy:/dev/loop0,xvda1,r


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