Re: [Xen-devel] an issue with 'xm save'

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 05:41:27PM +0800, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
> Hi maintainers,
> 
> I found there is an issue when 'xm save' a pvm guest. See below:
> 
> When I do save then restore once, CPU(%) in xentop showed around 99%.
> When I do that second time, CPU(%) showed 199%
> 
> top in dom0 showed:
>     PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>    20946 root      18  -2 10984 1284  964 S 19.8  0.3   0:48.93 block
>    4939 root      18  -2 10984 1288  964 S 19.5  0.3   1:34.68 block
> 
> I could kill the block process, then all look normal again.

What is the 'block' process? If you attach 'perf' to it do you get an idea
of what it is spinning at?

> 
> xen and xen-tools are both generated with xen-unstable.
> I tried xl, but it segfault.

It segfaulted? When doing 'xl save'  or 'xl resume'? Or just allocating
the guest?

> I also tried ovm3.1.1(xen-4.1.2-18.el5.1 and xen-tools-4.1.2-18.el5.1),
> can't reproduce.

So the issue is only present with Xen-unstable?

Did you clear _any_ older Xen libraries/tools when you installed Xen-unstable?

> 
> Did anybody see similar issue before? Any fix already there?
> thanks
> zduan
> 

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