[CentOS-virt] Major stability problems with xen 4.6.6

Tue Aug 29 19:45:39 UTC 2017
Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi>

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 03:45:46PM -0700, Nathan March wrote:
>    Just in case anyone else on this list is running into similar issues, I
>    can confirm that the patch appears to have resolved this.
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>    I've opened [1]https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13713
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>    It was so bad that having the system under load (with rpmbuild) and
>    opening another ssh window or two would almost always cause the oops.
>

It seems the patch you mentioned was merged to upstream Linux here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=71472fa9c52b1da27663c275d416d8654b905f05

and then reverted/removed here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=896d81fefe5d1919537db2c2150ab6384e4a6610

Do you know if there has been proper/fixed patch after that? has it been merged to upstream Linux kernel already? 


Thanks,

-- Pasi

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> 
>    Cheers,
> 
>    Nathan
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> 
> 
>    From: CentOS-virt [mailto:centos-virt-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of
>    Nathan March
>    Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 3:32 PM
>    To: 'Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS'
>    <centos-virt at centos.org>
>    Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Major stability problems with xen 4.6.6
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>    This appears to be a centos kernel issue rather than a xen one.
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>    [2]https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/17/440
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>    Digging through the posts and not clear why this never made it upstream...
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>    I'm going to apply that patch to my systems and see if it resolves, but
>    won't know for certain until a week or two of stability goes by.
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> 
>    - Nathan
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>    From: CentOS-virt [[3]mailto:centos-virt-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of
>    Nathan March
>    Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 2:48 PM
>    To: [4]centos-virt at centos.org
>    Subject: [CentOS-virt] Major stability problems with xen 4.6.6
> 
> 
> 
>    Hi,
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>    I'm seeing numerous crashes on the xen 4.6.6-1 / 4.6.6-2 releases, on both
>    the 4.9.34-29 and 4.9.39-29 kernels.
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>    I've attached a txt with two different servers outputs.
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>    Xen-028: This crashed this morning while running 4.6.6-1 and 4.9.39-29
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>    Xen-001: This crashed shortly after being upgraded to 4.6.6-2 and
>    4.9.34-29
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>    Both are on different hardware platforms, and have had a long history of
>    being stable until these upgrades.
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>    It sounds potentially related to
>    [5]https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-unstable/+/9ce119f318ba1a07c29149301f1544b6c4bea52a%5E%21/
>    but I've confirmed this patch is in the above kernels.
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>    Any suggestions / thoughts?
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>    Cheers,
> 
>    Nathan