Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.2 Release Plan / TODO

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 20:29 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > I have not investigated yet as I am just wrapping up a more important
> > issue, but the issue was a constant console spam saying no handler for
> > vector 0xe5, which was causing the server to run like treacle.  The
> > issue started occurring shortly after I backported c/s 25336 to
> > XenServer, which is why I suspect it as the culprit.  Having said that,
> > the patch appears to work fine on every other server we have, so I
> > suspect its some motherboard quirk; it is a slightly old AMD box we
> > have, and is 100% reproducible.  I am hoping to have time to start
> > looking at the problem this afternoon.
> >
> 
> After some investigation, it appears that the server in question is not
> old (as the bug report I received said).  It appears to be a fairly-new
> evaluation dual socket AMD box, with a beta-looking BIOS, which can't
> reliably boot Xen 3.4 or Xen 4.1 (with or without the changeset), can't
> reliably reboot via ACPI, and cant reliably turn back on after you cut
> its power.
> 
> As such, I would say that the server is rather more suspect than Xen
> 4.2, so this IRQ issue should probably not be considered a blocker.

Thanks, I won't include this issue on the list this week then.

Ian.



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