Bug#638172: [Xen-devel] Re: Bug#638172: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [qemu-dm:3205]

2011-08-26 Thread Ian Campbell
Hi Giuseppe, On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 07:56 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: But, I may use a different kernel and let the server goes until crashes: no problem in rebooting it for kernel update. Thanks that would be useful, I'll put something together and let you know. I'm in the process

Bug#638172: [Xen-devel] Re: Bug#638172: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [qemu-dm:3205]

2011-08-26 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:28 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: Hi, I just installed the new kernel and switched to 64bit hypervisor. I'll let you know about any news. Il giorno ven, 26/08/2011 alle 08.25 +0100, Ian Campbell ha scritto: [...] I'm in the process of uploading a kernel to http

Bug#637234: linux-image-3.0.0-1-686-pae: I/O errors using ext4 under xen

2011-08-25 Thread Ian Campbell
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Bug#638172: [Xen-devel] Re: Bug#638172: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [qemu-dm:3205]

2011-08-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 08:52 +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: Il giorno mer, 24/08/2011 alle 22.24 +0100, Ian Campbell ha scritto: [...] Giuseppe, are you able to reproduce the issue you are seeing at will? If I build a test kernel would you be able to try it? You are using a -686 kernel right

SVN repo is r/o?

2011-08-25 Thread Ian Campbell
file '/svn/kernel/db/txn-current-lock': Read-only file system at /usr/lib/git-core/git-svn line 579 My git-svn config is: [svn-remote svn] url = svn+ssh://ijc-gu...@svn.alioth.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/squeeze The error doesn't look git-svn specific to me. Cheers, Ian. -- Ian

Re: SVN repo is r/o?

2011-08-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 11:42 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: Hi Ian, On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 09:42:21AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: $ git svn dcommit 49b139e99bfec86618e67cf06900e648ea1c1ffe Committing to svn+ssh://ijc-gu...@svn.alioth.debian.org/svn/kernel/dists/squeeze ... M

Bug#638172: [Xen-devel] Re: Bug#638172: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [qemu-dm:3205]

2011-08-24 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 21:24 +0100, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:00:11AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: @xen-devel: Does this look familiar to anyone, this is (I expect, hopefully Giuseppe will confirm) from Debian Squeeze which has a Xen 4.0.x with a PVops dom0

Bug#638172: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [qemu-dm:3205]

2011-08-22 Thread Ian Campbell
[xen_evtchn] Aug 17 12:35:45 centrum kernel: [ 1456.620463] [c10bc4c4] ? vfs_write+0x9e/0xd6 Aug 17 12:35:45 centrum kernel: [ 1456.620463] [c10c6b30] ? sys_ioctl+0x41/0x58 Aug 17 12:35:45 centrum kernel: [ 1456.620463] [c1008f7c] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb Bye, Giuseppe -- Ian

Bug#637725: Acknowledgement (linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64: Xen DomU restore fails with 3.0 kernel)

2011-08-15 Thread Ian Campbell
login via the guest console (i.e. not ssh) and generate some traffic (e.g. a ping to a remote host) does that unwedge things at all? Is there anything interesting in the dom0 logs, especially those under /var/log/xen but also dmesg? Please attach the whole lot. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell I

Bug#637308: xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: with kernel option 'nosmp', dom0 hangup while init PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS

2011-08-10 Thread Ian Campbell
' dom0 hang [...] Why does this matter to you? Ben. -- Konstantin -- Ian Campbell mixed emotions: Watching a bus-load of lawyers plunge off a cliff. With five empty seats. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel

Re: kernel oops and kerneloops.org

2011-06-14 Thread Ian Campbell
address on the site but didn't see one). I've CC'd Arjan who IIRC was involved with kerneloops.org (sorry Arjan if this isn't the case) Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Queens Of The Stone Age - You Can't Quit Me Baby Falling in love is a lot like dying. You never get to do it enough to become

Bug#629253: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Squeeze amd64 PV DOMU live migration fails

2011-06-07 Thread Ian Campbell
the arp_notify sysctl on the net device inside the guest. This was fixed upstream and backported into the 2.6.32.32 longterm release which is in the Debian 2.6.32-31 package which was recently added to Squeeze in a stable update. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Godflesh - Sterile Prophet (Version) Q

Bug#614400: Please fix linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64

2011-05-13 Thread Ian Campbell
from the same source, both i386 and amd64 variants have been built and are available in stable-proposed updates. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Grand Magus - At Midnight They'll Get Wise Steal this tagline. I did. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#626189: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686: kernel BUG (invalid opcode) on reboot -f

2011-05-12 Thread Ian Campbell
kernel. Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Campbell I am currently transitioning to a new OpenPGP key, please see: http://www.hellion.org.uk/key-transition-2011-04-27-2F6BCD59-to-79074FA8.txt Oh, that sound of male ego. You travel halfway across the galaxy and it's still the same song. -- Eve

Bug#625217: xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Heavy load on domU causes dom0 to run out of memory

2011-05-12 Thread Ian Campbell
? (are you using LVM, iSCSI, DRDB, SW RAID, filesystems etc). Are you running anything interesting in domain 0 other than the Xen toolstack, nagios, sshd etc? What does /proc/meminfo look like after a fresh boot? Lastly, please can you provide a dmesg log of the initial bootup. Cheers, Ian. -- Ian

Re: CONFIG_NLS=y in 2.6.39 packages (Was Re: [PATCH base-installer] Update i386 kernel selection for new flavours in wheezy)

2011-05-10 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 03:58 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:36 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 09:53 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 05:03 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 08:38 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun

CONFIG_NLS=y in 2.6.39 packages (Was Re: [PATCH base-installer] Update i386 kernel selection for new flavours in wheezy)

2011-05-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 09:53 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 05:03 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 08:38 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 15:59 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: The '686-bigmem' flavour will be renamed to '686-pae'; support

Bug#613634: [PATCH] vmalloc: eagerly clear ptes on vunmap

2011-05-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 11:57 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 16:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 12:33 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 17:34 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Ian, should we apply the backport from

Bug#613634: [PATCH] vmalloc: eagerly clear ptes on vunmap

2011-05-02 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 16:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 12:33 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 17:34 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: Ian, should we apply the backport from 64141da587241301ce8638cc945f8b67853156ec to squeeze for bug #613634 et al

Bug#613634: [PATCH] vmalloc: eagerly clear ptes on vunmap

2011-05-01 Thread Ian Campbell
#613634, which are merged. Ian. -- Ian Campbell I am currently transitioning to a new OpenPGP key, please see: http://www.hellion.org.uk/key-transition-2011-04-27-2F6BCD59-to-79074FA8.txt Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [PATCH base-installer] Update i386 kernel selection for new flavours in wheezy

2011-04-29 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 05:03 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 08:38 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 15:59 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: The '686-bigmem' flavour will be renamed to '686-pae'; support both names. The '686' flavour will be removed, but we can

Re: [PATCH base-installer] Update i386 kernel selection for new flavours in wheezy

2011-04-28 Thread Ian Campbell
-cd will need changes too. Since the latter two are mainly due to Xen support I can take care of that if you like, although I think it will depend on the kernel actually being uploaded since I can't see an easy way to support both names in the main installer build. Ian. -- Ian Campbell I am

Bug#623594: closed by Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (Re: Bug#623594: system freeze during boot with IOMMMU enabled)

2011-04-25 Thread Ian Campbell
not use the IOMMU at all. It can if you want, but it has a different Xen command line syntax to enable it vs. enabling it for HVM guests. I can't remember what it is right no, iommu=pv or something? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Do you mean to say that I can read mail with vi too? ;-) Didn't you know

Bug#622333: Debian Squeeze hangs with kernel 2.6.32-5-xen-686

2011-04-23 Thread Ian Campbell
if the root cause of the issue this fixes is a h/w or s/w issue. Do you have irqbalanced installed/running? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Questionable day. Ask somebody something. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#622333: Debian Squeeze hangs with kernel 2.6.32-5-xen-686

2011-04-22 Thread Ian Campbell
/enlighten .c:726 perf_events_lapic_init+0x28/0x29() Thanks. This is a benign warning, unfortunately I doubt it is related to the hang. Ian. -- Ian Campbell I'll show you MY telex number if you show me YOURS ... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#613073: Perhaps fixed in 2.6.32-34

2011-04-21 Thread Ian Campbell
In 2.6.32-34 we will fix a bunch of similar, but not identical, issues (#614400 and #613634 plus various duplicates). If you are able to reproduce this it would be very much appreciated if you could test on 2.6.32-34 once it is uploaded to stable-proposed-updates. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell

Bug#621072: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: 2.6.32-33 failes to boot as PV domU on Xen

2011-04-13 Thread Ian Campbell
. (Had to redo the patch since the context didn't fit anymore) and the VM boots! (It still doesn' live mirate reliably, but that's for another bug report.) I've attached the output of svn diff. Thanks, unless I hear any objection I'll add this to svn shortly. Cheers, Ian. -- Ian Campbell

Bug#621072: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: 2.6.32-33 failes to boot as PV domU on Xen

2011-04-12 Thread Ian Campbell
-cr4-to-mmu_cr4_features-at-boot-time.patch should go at the same time. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Rotting Christ - Eon Aenaos You're at the end of the road again. From 5988b32500933add4877201667ce7b1725254072 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@suse.de Date: Mon, 11

Bug#614400: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Kernel Crash when initiating lvcreate or lvremove actions

2011-04-12 Thread Ian Campbell
the correctness of the x86: hold mm-page_table_lock while doing vmalloc_sync patch to be completed. The result of that conversation was a79e53d85683c6dd9f99c90511028adc2043031f which was in 2.6.38 and which I will also include. All these are for the -xen flavour only. Ian. -- Ian Campbell

Re: Bug#607885: marked as done (squeeze testing di beta2 amd64 installer kernel panic on xenserver vm)

2011-03-31 Thread Ian Campbell
on XenServer. Maybe someone could explain that to me, i don't get it. The bug was closed by Ian Campbell, who is one of the Xen upstresm developers. Presumably he recognised this as a bug in the Xen hypervisor as included in XenServer 5.6.0. (FWIW I don't actually work on XenServer any

Bug#616720: linux-image-2.6-xen-amd64: Feature request -- Serial driver serial8250 as module

2011-03-08 Thread Ian Campbell
on a per-port basis too. Ian. Kind regards David -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Anathema - Thin Air Government lies, and newspapers lie, but in a democracy they are different lies. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Uploading linux-2.6 2.6.37-1 to unstable

2011-02-08 Thread Ian Campbell
it in for 2.6.39. Apparently Linux 2.6.38 will have enough functionality in dom0 that blkback and netback can be implemented in userland in qemu. I think that's the case, yes. The qemu-xen in Squeeze doesn't have the backends, in case someone was planning to try a new kernel on Squeeze. Ian. -- Ian

Re: Bug#608253: [Pkg-xen-devel] Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2011-01-31 Thread Ian Campbell
installation step would be done seems like the right thing to do to me. Ian. -- Ian Campbell A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I believe everything positively stinks. -- Lew Col signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#608253: [Pkg-xen-devel] Release notes addition for Xen support in Debian

2011-01-29 Thread Ian Campbell
, #606589 and merged #606590, also be closed due to the addition of the metapackages and/or this advice to the release notes? BTW, why do we refer users to the wiki instead of including the advice inline in the release notes? Is that just the way the release notes are normally written? Ian. -- Ian

Bug#608865: tmp noexec

2011-01-27 Thread Ian Campbell
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Re: Possible bug in kernel 2.6.37

2011-01-27 Thread Ian Campbell
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Bug#605090: Updated patch

2011-01-27 Thread Ian Campbell
. For people with PV guests they can either choose dog-slow-but-secure or fast. Maybe that's not much of a choice ;-) Ian. -- Ian Campbell Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so get used to it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#607885: squeeze testing di beta2 amd64 installer kernel panic on xenserver vm

2011-01-19 Thread Ian Campbell
to contact XenServer support or make use of the XenServer forums. Ian. -- Ian Campbell It's the RINSE CYCLE!! They've ALL IGNORED the RINSE CYCLE!! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#607885: squeeze testing di beta2 amd64 installer kernel panic on xenserver vm

2011-01-18 Thread Ian Campbell
] Linux version 2.6.32-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.32-29) (ben@.) Where the (Debian 2.6.32-XX) indicates the kernel version. However, I suspect the easiest way to determine if the issue is fixed would be to simply test the rc1 image... Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Deicide - The Pentecostal

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Campbell
the hypervisor binary itself not all the tools etc which is relatively straight forward. I can give more detailed instructions if necessary. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Death - Scavenger Of Human Sorrow Once they go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:17 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: Ian, On 01/06/2011 10:09 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: I can test some more options on this system for a few more days, but then I have to reinstall it. If you are able it would be useful to know if the tip of xen-4.0-testing.hg (which

Bug#608144: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Kernel oops: net/core/dev.c:1582 skb_gso_segment+0x109/0x263() (Bug #596802 reappeared)

2011-01-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 23:14 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 10:08:32PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 21:44 +0100, Stephan Austermühle wrote: So the problem was already present in -23 and it just seems to have the same symptoms like #596802. OK

Bug#608144: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Kernel oops: net/core/dev.c:1582 skb_gso_segment+0x109/0x263() (Bug #596802 reappeared)

2011-01-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 09:34 +, Ian Campbell wrote: (csum_blank must be 1 for a GSO frame, the drivers were setting it to zero, even though the partial checksum was correct, which is invalid) Netback is supposed to drop such invalid packets, however I've just found a patch in my .git

Bug#608144: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Kernel oops: net/core/dev.c:1582 skb_gso_segment+0x109/0x263() (Bug #596802 reappeared)

2011-01-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 14:23 +0100, Stephan Austermühle wrote: Hi Ian, Am 05.01.2011 14:11, schrieb Ian Campbell: Netback is supposed to drop such invalid packets, however I've just found a patch in my .git/patches, dated August 2009, to do this which I forgot to send upstream. I'll do

Bug#608144: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Kernel oops: net/core/dev.c:1582 skb_gso_segment+0x109/0x263() (Bug #596802 reappeared)

2011-01-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 16:29 +0100, Stephan Austermühle wrote: Hi, Am 05.01.2011 14:57, schrieb Ian Campbell: Per my previous mail please can you let me know the details of the Windows driver versions you are using, where you got them from etc. PV drivers are Citrix WHQL server

Bug#602418: Debian Squeeze Xen with Nouveau or Radeon: Test packages

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 15:51 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: This combination works for me: [snip] Excellent. Thanks for testing. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Hypocrisy - Compulsive Psychosis phosflink: To flick a bulb on and off when it burns out (as if, somehow

Bug#608144: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Kernel oops: net/core/dev.c:1582 skb_gso_segment+0x109/0x263() (Bug #596802 reappeared)

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 08:45 +0100, Stephan Austermühle wrote: Am 02.01.2011 20:27, schrieb Ian Campbell: Did -28 work OK? Otherwise what was the last known good kernel? The -29 kernel was the one that was installed when I've setup Squeeze. So, there was never a different kernel

Bug#607709: XEN kernel crash (this time with a shorter trace)

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Campbell
)v, pte, 0)) BUG(); I would expect some log on the hypervisor console (xm dmesg) which corresponds with this hypercall failure, which would be very useful to see.. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Soilwork - Distortion Sleep You need tender loving care once

Bug#607709: XEN kernel crash (this time with a shorter trace)

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:48 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: Hi Ian, Il giorno mar, 04/01/2011 alle 11.53 +, Ian Campbell ha scritto: On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 16:02 +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: [...] I would expect some log on the hypervisor console (xm dmesg) which corresponds

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 09:59 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: Hi, On 12/22/2010 10:34 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: I was wondering about clamping something in the kernel to correspond to CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY and avoid the issue but you say the crash is after x VCPUS and before Scrubbing Free

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:08 +, Ian Campbell wrote: Now I think of it can you also collect a similar log with the dom0_mem workaround in place, for comparisons sake. Are you able to rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=128? If so then a log of that boot for comparison would

Bug#608144: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Kernel oops: net/core/dev.c:1582 skb_gso_segment+0x109/0x263() (Bug #596802 reappeared)

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Campbell
the first broken version, do you? (http://snapshot.debian.org/ is your friend here) If not (I wouldn't blame you) then are you at least able to verify that 2.6.32-23 worked for you, to rule out the possibility that this is a similar but different issue to #596802. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise

Bug#608144: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Kernel oops: net/core/dev.c:1582 skb_gso_segment+0x109/0x263() (Bug #596802 reappeared)

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Campbell
the bridge and end up getting treated as GSO on the outgoing path (i.e. the VIF) even though they aren't quite GSO frames, and this triggers the warning in skb_gso_segment. GRO is a generalisation of LRO, I'm not sure if it is supposed to fix this forwarding issue or not. Ian. -- Ian Campbell

Bug#608250: To Ben Hutchings

2011-01-02 Thread Ian Campbell
management to be used, I don't know how well supported this is though. Normally the hypervisor based stuff would be recommended AFAIK) Ian. -- Ian Campbell Badges? We don't need no stinking badges. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#608144: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Kernel oops: net/core/dev.c:1582 skb_gso_segment+0x109/0x263() (Bug #596802 reappeared)

2011-01-02 Thread Ian Campbell
this system as a Xen testing system to find various other issues I can do additional tests if needed. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Do what you can to prolong your life, in the hope that someday you'll learn what it's for. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#602908: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen dom0 crashes with unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

2010-12-24 Thread Ian Campbell
.html this instance does not seem to be under Xen so I guess it isn't Xen related. In any case the iscsi_trgt module is not provided by the kernel package but rather by the iscsitarget package so reassigning there. Please send it back if something points to a core kernel issue. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian

Bug#602418: Bug#604096: Bug#601341: Bug#602418: #601341, #602418 and #604096 seem to be duplicates

2010-12-23 Thread Ian Campbell
the effect to see how much it matters. Thanks. I think I'll leave it out of the first version I commit to the Debian kernel, I can always re-add it later if it turns out to be necessary. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Marvelous! The super-user's going to boot me! What a finely tuned response

Bug#607709: XEN kernel crash on DNS process

2010-12-23 Thread Ian Campbell
be accompanied by a log message from the hypervisor. Does xm dmesg show anything? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Bizoos, n.: The millions of tiny individual bumps that make up a basketball. -- Rich Hall, Sniglets -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#602418: Debian Squeeze Xen with Nouveau or Radeon: Test packages

2010-12-23 Thread Ian Campbell
will help with nv or not but my advice would be to switch back to Nouveau in any case. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Triptykon - Myopic Empire QOTD: The only easy way to tell a hamster from a gerbil is that the gerbil has more dark meat. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#602418: Debian Squeeze Xen with Nouveau or Radeon: Test packages

2010-12-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 15:52 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 02:14:13PM +, Ian Campbell wrote: I have put some test packages with the patches discussed further up the bug (...) Please could you test and let me know how you get on. In particular if you use

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2010-12-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 07:20 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: Hi, On 12/14/2010 02:41 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: When adding dom0_mem=2G to the boot line, the system boots OK. I expect it will work ok with everything up to and including dom0_mem=32G? It does. Thanks. It depends a bit on your

Bug#604096: Bug#601341: Bug#602418: #601341, #602418 and #604096 seem to be duplicates

2010-12-22 Thread Ian Campbell
of the wrong indexes. FWIW I think that patch should be folded down into the original patch for upstreaming. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Raise Hell - To The Gallows Bo Derek ruined my life! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#582021: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.4-xen-amd64 misses networking booting domUs installed via xen-tools

2010-12-22 Thread Ian Campbell
). To confirm please add xen-netfront to /etc/modules inside the guest. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Annihilator - The Other Side Did you hear that two rabbits escaped from the zoo and so far they have only recaptured 116 of them? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ

Bug#607534: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686: crash upon calling 'startx'

2010-12-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 19:17 +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, On Mon, 20.12.2010 at 12:42:50 +, Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk wrote: Squeeze is frozen so there is no chance of moving to 2.6.36 for that, if that was your question. thanks, but that wasn't the question. The question

Bug#604096: Bug#601341: Bug#602418: #601341, #602418 and #604096 seem to be duplicates

2010-12-21 Thread Ian Campbell
) to have it ready for upstream. Cool. Hrm, do I need some equivalent of c) in order to have a chance of this stuff working? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Emperor - Grey You show me an American who can keep his mouth shut and I'll eat him. -- Newspaperman from Frank Capra's

Bug#604096: Bug#601341: Bug#602418: #601341, #602418 and #604096 seem to be duplicates

2010-12-21 Thread Ian Campbell
an infrastructure change of that magnitude into Squeeze in its current frozen state. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Pentagram - Life Blood There are no answers, only cross-references. -- Weiner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#607534: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686: crash upon calling 'startx'

2010-12-20 Thread Ian Campbell
to the kernel to be used in Squeeze. The problem appears to occur only with the entry in grub.cfg that I marked below, but I only tried the first and the marked entry (...XEN 4.0): That is the only entry which would result in you running under Xen so this is not surprising. Ian. -- Ian Campbell

Bug#607534: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686: crash upon calling 'startx'

2010-12-20 Thread Ian Campbell
to switch to eg. 2.6.36 or higher? Squeeze is frozen so there is no chance of moving to 2.6.36 for that, if that was your question. The patches are not in 2.6.37-rc so 2.6.36 isn't helpful for a private kernel build either. I suppose the patches are likely to land in 2.6.38. Ian. -- Ian

Bug#604096: Bug#601341: Bug#602418: #601341, #602418 and #604096 seem to be duplicates

2010-12-20 Thread Ian Campbell
Hi Konrad, On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 11:47 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:49:14AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: Is the series at https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/6/516 sufficient in its own right to make Nouveau and ATI work or is more needed? What about NV? Both

Bug#605448: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: xen dom0 and domU hang on reboot/halt

2010-12-14 Thread Ian Campbell
? In the domU case it works ok in both the generic flavours (-686-bigmem and -amd64) and the -xen flavours (-xen-{686,amd64})? If so then good! Thanks everyone for testing etc. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Trouble - Pray For The Dead While you don't greatly need the outside world, it's still very

Bug#605448: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: xen dom0 and domU hang on reboot/halt

2010-12-14 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 13:10 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes: Just to clarify, since the recent messages are not completely clear on the details, we think that with the 2.6.32-29 package reboot works fine for both 32 and 64 bit domU and dom0? Yes

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2010-12-14 Thread Ian Campbell
would recommend that you determine how big you want/need domain 0 to be and pass an appropriate dom0_mem option. Ian, -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Devin Townsend - Addicted I consider the day misspent that I am not either charged with a crime, or arrested for one. -- Ratsy

Bug#579081: linux-image-2.6.32-4-xen-686: fails to boot with xenhopt=dom0_mem=256000

2010-12-10 Thread Ian Campbell
Linux kernel (vmlinuz): console=hvc0 earlyprintk=xen nomodeset initcall_debug debug loglevel=10 Many thanks, Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. -- B. Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#606589: xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 doesn't upgrade from xen-linux-system-2.6.26-2-xen-amd64

2010-12-10 Thread Ian Campbell
Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs, Xen d ii xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64 [xen 4.0.1-1The Xen Hypervisor on AMD64 xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 recommends no packages. xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Ian Campbell Current Noise

Bug#604096: Bug#601341: Bug#602418: #601341, #602418 and #604096 seem to be duplicates

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Campbell
which sets of cards would we be including/excluding support for? Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Mistress - 38 What's done to children, they will do to society. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#602273: [PATCH] Re: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem: domU hangs during dom0 reboot, recovers when dom0 uptime caught up

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 12:14 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes: On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 13:23 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-10/msg01261.html Thanks, I've pinged upstream to see if this patch

Bug#602273: [PATCH] Re: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem: domU hangs during dom0 reboot, recovers when dom0 uptime caught up

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 14:02 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Ian Campbell i...@hellion.org.uk writes: My ping at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=128879080525214w=2 went unanswered but Jeremy picked it up again at http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernelm=129045702011984w=2 and it seems

Bug#591836: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686: support to PAE doesn't

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Campbell
up to regain this memory but IIRC this is not possible with the version in squeeze). Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Angelcorpse - Into The Storm Of Steel Why does New Jersey have more toxic waste dumps and California have more lawyers? New Jersey had first choice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#582021: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.4-xen-amd64 misses networking booting domUs installed via xen-tools

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Campbell
:7e:eb' ] EOF sudo xm create -c config has networking. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Angelcorpse - Embrace Take me drunk, I'm home again! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#602109: Acknowledgement ([linux-2.6] 1 multicall(s) failed: cpu 0)

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Campbell
what's in Squeeze (or actually run Squeeze of course!) Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Angelcorpse - Sons Of Vengeance #else /* !STDSTDIO */ /* The big, slow, and stupid way */ -- Larry Wall in str.c from the perl source code -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel

Bug#604096: Bug#601341: Bug#602418: #601341, #602418 and #604096 seem to be duplicates

2010-12-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 11:47 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 11:49:14AM +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 19:27 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: a) Fix the GART/AGP backend (so drivers/char/agp/*.c) so they use the PCI API. Only

Bug#602109: Acknowledgement ([linux-2.6] 1 multicall(s) failed: cpu 0)

2010-12-06 Thread Ian Campbell
://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2010-09/msg00888.html ) Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Rotting Christ - Phobos' Synagogue PLUG IT IN!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#605448: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: xen dom0 and domU hang on reboot/halt

2010-12-06 Thread Ian Campbell
. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Spiritual Beggars - Return To Zero (Intro) The anger of a woman is the greatest evil with which you can threaten your enemies. -- Bonnard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#603632: [Xen-devel] PVops domain 0 crash on NUMA system only Node==1 present (Was: Re: Bug#603632: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Linux kernel 2.6.32/xen/amd64 booting fine on bare metal, but not

2010-12-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 23:47 +, Vincent Caron wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 22:18 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 22:12 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:52 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 11:51 +, Ian Campbell wrote

Bug#603632: [Xen-devel] PVops domain 0 crash on NUMA system only Node==1 present (Was: Re: Bug#603632: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Linux kernel 2.6.32/xen/amd64 booting fine on bare metal, but not

2010-12-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 00:12 +, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: What about numa=fake=1? I think that should force it to create a single NUMA node. Is there any advantage to this vs numa=noacpi? Do they effectively end up doing the same thing? IanC: it looks like passing a node id of -1 is the

Bug#603632: [Xen-devel] PVops domain 0 crash on NUMA system only Node==1 present (Was: Re: Bug#603632: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Linux kernel 2.6.32/xen/amd64 booting fine on bare metal, but not

2010-12-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 00:27 +, Vincent Caron wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 16:12 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: On 12/02/2010 03:47 PM, Vincent Caron wrote: It just happens that your kernel above (2.6.32-27+numa1) boots fine under hypervisor _when_ passed 'numa=noacpi'. Yeah !

Bug#603632: [Xen-devel] PVops domain 0 crash on NUMA system only Node==1 present (Was: Re: Bug#603632: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Linux kernel 2.6.32/xen/amd64 booting fine on bare metal, but not

2010-12-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 08:52 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 00:12 +, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: What about numa=fake=1? I think that should force it to create a single NUMA node. Is there any advantage to this vs numa=noacpi? Do they effectively end up doing the same

Bug#603632: [Xen-devel] PVops domain 0 crash on NUMA system only Node==1 present (Was: Re: Bug#603632: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Linux kernel 2.6.32/xen/amd64 booting fine on bare metal, but not

2010-12-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 08:52 +, Ian Campbell wrote: IanC: it looks like passing a node id of -1 is the correct way to say I don't care. I thought so too but convinced myself from staring at the code that it wouldn't work in this case -- I'll double check before I resubmit. I

Bug#604096: Bug#602418: #601341, #602418 and #604096 seem to be duplicates

2010-11-29 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 02:52 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 18:12 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-28 at 16:58 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 12:56 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:41:57AM +0100, Alexander Kurtz

Bug#604096: Bug#602418: #601341, #602418 and #604096 seem to be duplicates

2010-11-28 Thread Ian Campbell
as a single set for the purposes of resolving these tickets. IIRC the original discussion regarding the omission of these changes from the last Xen pvops merge starts at 20100817192832.ga22...@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org (on debian-kernel back in August). Ian. -- Ian Campbell I feel like a wet parking

Bug#603632: PVops domain 0 crash on NUMA system only Node==1 present (Was: Re: Bug#603632: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Linux kernel 2.6.32/xen/amd64 booting fine on bare metal, but not as dom0 wit

2010-11-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 14:29 +0100, Vincent Caron wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 11:51 +, Ian Campbell wrote: One thing I notice when googling R410 issues is that they apparently have a Cores per CPU BIOS option which might be worth playing with, since configuring a reduced number

Bug#603632: [Xen-devel] PVops domain 0 crash on NUMA system only Node==1 present (Was: Re: Bug#603632: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Linux kernel 2.6.32/xen/amd64 booting fine on bare metal, but not

2010-11-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 13:51 +0100, Vincent Caron wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 10:24 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: On 11/23/2010 03:51 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: I'm not sure but looking at the complete bootlog it looks as if the system may only have node==1 i.e. no 0 node which could

Bug#603632: PVops domain 0 crash on NUMA system only Node==1 present (Was: Re: Bug#603632: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Linux kernel 2.6.32/xen/amd64 booting fine on bare metal, but not as dom0 wit

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Campbell
-- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Wolf - Seize The Night If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats. Booting command-list root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel

Reinstating GPU fixes to Xen flavour

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Campbell
stance on this. I can do the work to reinstate the fixes but only if you are happy with me doing so. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Current Noise: Rwake - The Lure Of Light Anyway, my money is still on use strict vars . . . -- Larry Wall in 199710011704.kaa21...@wall.org To regenerate

Bug#603632: [Xen-devel] PVops domain 0 crash on NUMA system only Node==1 present (Was: Re: Bug#603632: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Linux kernel 2.6.32/xen/amd64 booting fine on bare metal, but not

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 11:51 +, Ian Campbell wrote: Perhaps we should be passing numa_node_id() (e.g. current node) instead of node 0? I've just kicked off a build of the 2.6.32-27 Debian kernel with the following additional patch, I will hopefully post the binaries tomorrow. If you

Bug#603632: [Xen-devel] PVops domain 0 crash on NUMA system only Node==1 present (Was: Re: Bug#603632: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Linux kernel 2.6.32/xen/amd64 booting fine on bare metal, but not

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:52 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 11:51 +, Ian Campbell wrote: Perhaps we should be passing numa_node_id() (e.g. current node) instead of node 0? I've just kicked off a build of the 2.6.32-27 Debian kernel with the following additional

Bug#603632: [Xen-devel] PVops domain 0 crash on NUMA system only Node==1 present (Was: Re: Bug#603632: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Linux kernel 2.6.32/xen/amd64 booting fine on bare metal, but not

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 22:12 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:52 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 11:51 +, Ian Campbell wrote: Perhaps we should be passing numa_node_id() (e.g. current node) instead of node 0? I've just kicked off a build

Bug#593245: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64_2.6.32-20_amd64.deb can't start VM's due to udev rule mismatch

2010-11-22 Thread Ian Campbell
it would be interesting to know if this could be reproduced with up to date Squeeze/Sid or not. Ian. -- Ian Campbell The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision -- it *pleasurably* reaffirms your Jewishness. -- Mel Brooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#602418: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: with xen 4.0, fork()/clone() fails with ENOMEM during X startup with nv driver

2010-11-18 Thread Ian Campbell
if it resolves your issue. (it's currently -26 based and I really should rebase to -27 but I don't think your issue is new in -27 so it's an interesting experiment) Ian. -- Ian Campbell Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#602273: [PATCH] Re: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem: domU hangs during dom0 reboot, recovers when dom0 uptime caught up

2010-11-04 Thread Ian Campbell
pinged upstream to see if this patch will be applied and also requested that it gets tagged to go into stable. Ian. -- Ian Campbell Drinking is not a spectator sport. -- Jim Brosnan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

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