Re: [Xen-devel] Netback vif reference count mismatching in latest 3.11 kernels

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 01:07:15PM +0100, Tomasz Wroblewski wrote:
> On 11/28/2013 12:45 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Tomasz Wroblewski
> ><tomasz.wroblewski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>On 11/27/2013 06:02 PM, Tomasz Wroblewski wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>OK, I get what you mean. The separation of vif disconnect and free is
> >>>>indeed causing problem.
> >>>>
> >>>>I think the right fix would be to make things symmetric again.
> >>>>
> >>>>Does the following *untested* patch work for you? If so I will submit a
> >>>>proper patch to netdev.
> >>>>
> >>>Thanks, indeed your patch works fine after a quick linux hibernate tests.
> >>>But I will do more comprehensive test tomorrow morning (such as
> >>>with windows guests as well, and things like rebooting backend network vm
> >>>while front stays up) and get back to you with the result, so
> >>>probably best to hold off a little :) thanks!
> >>>
> >>Wei, gave your patch more testing now, as stated, and haven't noticed any
> >>trouble.
> >>
> >
> >Thanks, please give me final confirmation if everything passes.
> >
> it did, not planning to do more testing as of now (I tested S3/S4 in
> linuxes/windowses, reboots of network vm whilst frontend stays up
> and general lifecycle ops)
> 

Thanks for the confirmation, I will add a tag

  reported-and-tested-by: Tomasz Wroblewski <tomasz.wroblewski@xxxxxxxxxx>

to the final patch.

Wei.

> >Wei.
> >
> >>
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