Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-12-10 Thread Ian Campbell
reassign 599161 src:xen thanks On Sun, 2012-12-09 at 19:54 +, philippe.simo...@swisscom.com wrote: what would be done that it would be 'officialized' / intergrated in the next version in Debian ? That is one for the Debian maintainers, not the upstream Xen maintainers CCd here. AIUI the

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-12-09 Thread Philippe.Simonet
[mailto:i...@hellion.org.uk] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 4:36 PM To: Jan Beulich Cc: Mauro; Simonet Philippe, ITS-OUS-OP-IFM-NW-IPE; Keir Fraser; 599...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug. On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 15:28

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 15:28 +, Jan Beulich wrote: On 24.11.12 at 13:06, Mauro mrsan...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a clock jump, I'm using the patch: And here's a 4.0.x version of the patch I just sent for -unstable. Thanks Jan! CCing the Debian bug for posterity. Mauro, Perhaps you

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-13 Thread Jan Beulich
On 09.11.12 at 10:05, philippe.simo...@swisscom.com wrote: Since it looks like this got stalled again, attached is a slightly extended version of Keir's debugging patch, allowing to rule out any inconsistencies of the globals between the first and second instances of the two invocations of

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-09 Thread Philippe.Simonet
AM To: Simonet Philippe, ITS-OUS-OP-IFM-NW-IPE; Keir Fraser Cc: 599...@bugs.debian.org; mrsan...@gmail.com; Ian Campbell; xen- de...@lists.xen.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug. On 07.11.12 at 18:40, Keir Fraser k

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-09 Thread Jan Beulich
On 09.11.12 at 10:05, philippe.simo...@swisscom.com wrote: oops, excuse me, here is a description : I have the problem on 4 systems, all with same hardware. the problem occured on each system, 1 time each 2 month in average. since January 2012, I decided to reboot them all monthly, and

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-09 Thread Mauro
On 9 November 2012 10:47, Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com wrote: On 09.11.12 at 10:05, philippe.simo...@swisscom.com wrote: oops, excuse me, here is a description : I have the problem on 4 systems, all with same hardware. the problem occured on each system, 1 time each 2 month in average. since

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Jan Beulich
On 07.11.12 at 18:40, Keir Fraser k...@xen.org wrote: On 07/11/2012 13:22, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: (XEN) XXX plt_overflow: plt_now=5ece12d34128 plt_wrap=5ece12d09306 now=5ece12d16292 old_stamp=35c7c new_stamp=800366a5 plt_stamp64=15b800366a5 plt_mask=

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Keir Fraser
On 08/11/2012 09:39, Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com wrote: (XEN) XXX plt_overflow: plt_now=5ece12d34128 plt_wrap=5ece12d09306 now=5ece12d16292 old_stamp=35c7c new_stamp=800366a5 plt_stamp64=15b800366a5 plt_mask= tsc=e3839fd23854 tsc_stamp=e3839fcb0273 (below is the complete xm dmesg

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 17:40 +, Keir Fraser wrote: On 07/11/2012 13:22, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: (XEN) XXX plt_overflow: plt_now=5ece12d34128 plt_wrap=5ece12d09306 now=5ece12d16292 old_stamp=35c7c new_stamp=800366a5 plt_stamp64=15b800366a5 plt_mask=

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Keir Fraser
On 08/11/2012 11:43, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: I'll leave this to Keir (who wrote the debugging patch) to answer but it looks to me like it should be useful! I'm scratching my head. plt_wrap is earlier than plt_now, which should be impossible. impossible due to guarantees

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Philippe.Simonet
08, 2012 10:40 AM To: Simonet Philippe, ITS-OUS-OP-IFM-NW-IPE; Keir Fraser Cc: 599...@bugs.debian.org; mrsan...@gmail.com; Ian Campbell; xen- de...@lists.xen.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug. On 07.11.12 at 18:40, Keir Fraser k

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Jan Beulich
On 08.11.12 at 11:38, Keir Fraser k...@xen.org wrote: On 08/11/2012 09:39, Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com wrote: (XEN) XXX plt_overflow: plt_now=5ece12d34128 plt_wrap=5ece12d09306 now=5ece12d16292 old_stamp=35c7c new_stamp=800366a5 plt_stamp64=15b800366a5 plt_mask= tsc=e3839fd23854

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Keir Fraser
On 08/11/2012 13:53, Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com wrote: Is it? My understanding was that plt_stamp64 is just a software extension to the more narrow HW counter, and hence the low plt_mask bits would always be expected to be identical. No, plt_stamp is simply the HW counter time at which

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Keir Fraser
On 07/11/2012 17:40, Keir Fraser k...@xen.org wrote: On 07/11/2012 13:22, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: (XEN) XXX plt_overflow: plt_now=5ece12d34128 plt_wrap=5ece12d09306 now=5ece12d16292 old_stamp=35c7c new_stamp=800366a5 plt_stamp64=15b800366a5 plt_mask= tsc=e3839fd23854

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 12:54 +, Keir Fraser wrote: On 08/11/2012 11:43, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: I'll leave this to Keir (who wrote the debugging patch) to answer but it looks to me like it should be useful! I'm scratching my head. plt_wrap is earlier than plt_now,

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Ian Campbell
] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 10:40 AM To: Simonet Philippe, ITS-OUS-OP-IFM-NW-IPE; Keir Fraser Cc: 599...@bugs.debian.org; mrsan...@gmail.com; Ian Campbell; xen- de...@lists.xen.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Keir Fraser
On 08/11/2012 14:28, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: There appears to be a certain amount of hardware-specificness to the issue -- so I'm wondering if maybe there are some platforms whose tsc is not as monotonically increasing as it needs to be... plt_* timestamps are not derived

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Mauro
On 8 November 2012 14:47, philippe.simo...@swisscom.com wrote: Hi Mauro, that's a question for you : Philippe, could you clarify again what CPU model(s) this is being observed on (the long times between individual steps forward with this problem perhaps warrant repeating the basics each

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Keir Fraser
On 08/11/2012 16:45, Tim Deegan t...@xen.org wrote: I wonder whether the overflow handling should just be removed, or made conditional on a command-line parameter, or on the 32-bit platform counter being at least somewhat likely to overflow before a softirq occurs -- it seems lots of systems

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Tim Deegan
At 09:39 + on 08 Nov (1352367592), Jan Beulich wrote: The plt_wrap plt_now thing of course is entirely unexplainable to me too: Considering that plt_scale doesn't change at all post- boot, apart from memory corruption I could only see an memory access ordering problem to be the reason

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-07 Thread Philippe.Simonet
: 599...@bugs.debian.org Subject: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug. Hi all, I've BCC'd a number of people who have reported seeing this bug at various times in the past. If you can still repro I'd appreciate it if you could give the patch in http

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-07 Thread Ian Campbell
- From: xen-devel-boun...@lists.xen.org [mailto:xen-devel- boun...@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of Ian Campbell Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 3:00 PM To: xen-de...@lists.xen.org Cc: 599...@bugs.debian.org Subject: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-07 Thread Jan Beulich
On 07.11.12 at 11:10, philippe.simo...@swisscom.com wrote: i compiled a patched hypervisor for Mauro, it is running since many days and the overflow occured, without clock jumps (XEN) XXX plt_overflow: plt_now=5ece12d34128 plt_wrap=5ece12d09306 now=5ece12d16292 old_stamp=35c7c

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-11-07 Thread Keir Fraser
On 07/11/2012 13:22, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: (XEN) XXX plt_overflow: plt_now=5ece12d34128 plt_wrap=5ece12d09306 now=5ece12d16292 old_stamp=35c7c new_stamp=800366a5 plt_stamp64=15b800366a5 plt_mask= tsc=e3839fd23854 tsc_stamp=e3839fcb0273 (below is the complete xm

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the clock shifts by 50 minutes bug.

2012-10-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 19:25 +0100, Mauro wrote: On 26 October 2012 14:59, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: Hi all, I've BCC'd a number of people who have reported seeing this bug at various times in the past. If you can still repro I'd appreciate it if you could give the patch