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Re: [Xen-devel] Issue about domU missing interrupt



On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 10:15:58AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 04.12.12 at 04:07, "G.R." <firemeteor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>  I had a quick look, and it doesn't look that hard to backport that patch.
> > 
> > Thanks, Mat.
> > I'm glad to report that the patch do fix my problem.
> > 
> > And yest it is really easy to port since the code did not change across the
> > two release.
> > The only change would be line numbers (3841 vs 3803) and one extra comments
> > before this line:
> > 
> >  static int pt_msix_update_one(struct pt_dev *dev, int entry_nr)
> > 
> > I'm not sure if you are going to release another maintenance version that
> > include this patch,
> > but I'll report this to Debain maintainer since it's about to freeze for
> > v7.0 release and v4.2.0 will not make it.
> 
> Any thoughts on backporting this to 4.1.x, now or after 4.1.4 is
> out?
> 

It's already in Xen 4.2, it's confirmed to fix a bug in Xen 4.1,
so I'd say it should be a candidate for Xen 4.1.4.

-- Pasi

> Jan
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Mats Petersson 
> > <mats.petersson@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> > 
> >> On 03/12/12 13:19, Mats Petersson wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 03/12/12 13:14, G.R. wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Mats Petersson
> >>>> <mats.petersson@xxxxxxxxxx 
> > <mailto:mats.petersson@citrix.**com<mats.petersson@xxxxxxxxxx>>>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>      On 03/12/12 03:47, G.R. wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>          Hi developers,
> >>>>          I met some domU issues and the log suggests missing interrupt.
> >>>>          Details from here:
> >>>>          http://www.gossamer-threads.**com/lists/xen/users/263938#** 
> >>>> 263938 <http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/users/263938#263938>
> >>>>          In summary, this is the suspicious log:
> >>>>
> >>>>          (XEN) vmsi.c:122:d32767 Unsupported delivery mode 3
> >>>>
> >>>>          I've checked the code in question and found that mode 3 is an
> >>>>          'reserved_1' mode.
> >>>>          I want to trace down the source of this mode setting to
> >>>>          root-cause the issue.
> >>>>          But I'm not an xen developer, and am even a newbie as a xen
> >>>> user.
> >>>>          Could anybody give me instructions about how to enable
> >>>>          detailed debug log?
> >>>>          It could be better if I can get advice about experiments to
> >>>>          perform / switches to try out etc.
> >>>>
> >>>>          My SW config:
> >>>>          dom0: Debian wheezy (3.6 experimental kernel, xen 4.1.3-4)
> >>>>          domU: Debian wheezy 3.2.x stock kernel.
> >>>>
> >>>>          Thanks,
> >>>>          Timothy
> >>>>
> >>>>      Are you passing hardware (PCI Passthrough) to the HVM guest?
> >>>>      What are the exact messages in the DomU?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, I'm doing PCI passthrough (the IGD, audio && USB controller).
> >>>> But this is actually a PVHVM guest since debian stock kernel has PVOP
> >>>> enabled.
> >>>> And when I tried another PVOP disabled linux distro (openelec v2.0), I
> >>>> did not see such msi related error message.
> >>>> Actually, with that domU I do not see anything obvious wrong from the
> >>>> log, but I also see nothing from panel (panel receive no signal and go
> >>>> power-saving) :-(
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Back to the issue I was reporting, the domU log looks like this:
> >>>>
> >>>> Dec 2 21:52:44 debvm kernel: [ 1085.604071]
> >>>> [drm:i915_hangcheck_ring_idle]
> >>>> *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... blt ring idle [waiting on 3354, at
> >>>> 3354], missed IRQ?
> >>>> Dec 2 21:56:50 debvm kernel: [ 1332.076071]
> >>>> [drm:i915_hangcheck_ring_idle]
> >>>> *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... render ring idle [waiting on 11297, at
> >>>> 11297], missed IRQ?
> >>>> Dec 2 22:32:48 debvm kernel: [ 7.220073] hda-intel: azx_get_response
> >>>> timeout, switching to polling mode: last cmd=0x000f0000
> >>>> Dec 2 22:45:32 debvm kernel: [ 776.392084] hda-intel: No response from
> >>>> codec, disabling MSI: last cmd=0x002f0600
> >>>> Dec 2 22:45:33 debvm kernel: [ 777.400075] hda_intel: azx_get_response
> >>>> timeout, switching to single_cmd mode: last cmd=0x002f0600
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Timothy
> >>>>
> >>> It does sound like there is a fix in 4.2.0, as indicated by Jan, that
> >>> fixes this. I'm not fully clued up to what the policy for backporting
> >>> fixes are, and I haven't looked at the complexity of the fix itself, but
> >>> either updating to the 4.2.0 or a (personal) backport sounds like the
> >>> right solution here.
> >>>
> >> I had a quick look, and it doesn't look that hard to backport that patch.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mats
> >>
> >>
> >>> Unfortunately, I hadn't seen Jan's reply by the time I wrote my response
> >>> to your original email.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Mats
> >>>
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