Re: 2.6.32 guest with paravirt clock enabled hangs on 2.6.37.6 host (w qemu-kvm-0.13.0)

2011-05-09 Thread Zachary Amsden
On 05/08/2011 12:06 PM, Nikola Ciprich wrote: OK, I see.. the problem is, that I'm trying to hunt down bug causing hangs when 2.6.32 guests try to run tcpdump - this seems to be reproducible even on latest 2.6.32.x, and seems like it depends on kvm-clock.. So I was thinking about bisecting

Re: 2.6.32 guest with paravirt clock enabled hangs on 2.6.37.6 host (w qemu-kvm-0.13.0)

2011-05-09 Thread Nikola Ciprich
The guest, because latest kernels do not suffer this problem, so I'd like to find fix so it can be pushed to -stable (we're using 2.6.32.x) host is currently 2.6.37 (and i'm currently testing 2.6.38 as well) n. On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:32:26AM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote: On 05/08/2011 12:06

Re: 2.6.32 guest with paravirt clock enabled hangs on 2.6.37.6 host (w qemu-kvm-0.13.0)

2011-05-09 Thread Zachary Amsden
On 05/09/2011 11:25 AM, Nikola Ciprich wrote: The guest, because latest kernels do not suffer this problem, so I'd like to find fix so it can be pushed to -stable (we're using 2.6.32.x) host is currently 2.6.37 (and i'm currently testing 2.6.38 as well) n. That's a pretty wide range to be

Re: 2.6.32 guest with paravirt clock enabled hangs on 2.6.37.6 host (w qemu-kvm-0.13.0)

2011-05-09 Thread Nikola Ciprich
That's a pretty wide range to be bisecting, and I think we know for a fact there were some kvmclock related bugs in that range. thats true, I might try to pick those that seem related and see if it helpts.. If you are looking for something causing problems with tcpdump, I'd suggest

2.6.32 guest with paravirt clock enabled hangs on 2.6.37.6 host (w qemu-kvm-0.13.0)

2011-05-08 Thread Nikola Ciprich
Hello everyboy, while installing new virt machine today, I noticed that 2.6.32 x86_64 SMP guests are hanging if they have paravirt-clock enabled... Either they don't finish booting at all, or boot but hang soon after.. Such a hanged guest fully loads all host cpus.. The host is 6core x86_64

Re: 2.6.32 guest with paravirt clock enabled hangs on 2.6.37.6 host (w qemu-kvm-0.13.0)

2011-05-08 Thread Michael Tokarev
08.05.2011 22:33, Nikola Ciprich wrote: Hello everyboy, while installing new virt machine today, I noticed that 2.6.32 x86_64 SMP guests are hanging if they have paravirt-clock enabled... There were about 10 bugfixes pushed to 2.6.32.y stable series, some of them were for kvm-clock, and some

Re: 2.6.32 guest with paravirt clock enabled hangs on 2.6.37.6 host (w qemu-kvm-0.13.0)

2011-05-08 Thread Nikola Ciprich
OK, I see.. the problem is, that I'm trying to hunt down bug causing hangs when 2.6.32 guests try to run tcpdump - this seems to be reproducible even on latest 2.6.32.x, and seems like it depends on kvm-clock.. So I was thinking about bisecting between 2.6.32 and latest git which doesn't seem to

Re: 2.6.32 guest with paravirt clock enabled hangs on 2.6.37.6 host (w qemu-kvm-0.13.0)

2011-05-08 Thread Nikola Ciprich
(CC Zachary) well, I should also note that while testing 2.6.37 host, I had Zach's patch fixing guest clock regression applied... n. On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 08:33:04PM +0200, Nikola Ciprich wrote: Hello everyboy, while installing new virt machine today, I noticed that 2.6.32 x86_64 SMP guests

Re: 2.6.32 guest with paravirt clock enabled hangs on 2.6.37.6 host (w qemu-kvm-0.13.0)

2011-05-08 Thread David Ahern
On 05/08/11 13:06, Nikola Ciprich wrote: OK, I see.. the problem is, that I'm trying to hunt down bug causing hangs when 2.6.32 guests try to run tcpdump - this seems to be reproducible even on latest 2.6.32.x, and seems like it depends on kvm-clock.. So I was thinking about bisecting