Re: [Xen-devel] Regression, host crash with 4.5rc1

2014-11-28 Thread Steve Freitas
On 11/27/2014 01:27 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: This was precisely the reason why I told you that the numbering differs (and is confusing and has nothing to do with actual C state numbers): What max_cstate refers to in the mwait-idle driver is what above is listed as type[Cx], i.e. the state at index

Re: [Xen-devel] Regression, host crash with 4.5rc1

2014-11-28 Thread Steve Freitas
On Nov 28, 2014, at 00:50, Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com wrote: On 28.11.14 at 09:24, sfl...@ihonk.com wrote: And with 6 errata documented it's not all that unlikely that there's a 7th one with MONITOR/MWAIT behavior. The commit you bisected to (and which you had verified to be the culprit

Re: [Xen-devel] Regression, host crash with 4.5rc1

2014-11-26 Thread Steve Freitas
On 11/25/2014 03:00 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: Okay, so it's not really the mwait-idle driver causing the regression, but it is C-state related. Hence we're now down to seeing whether all or just the deeper C states are affected, i.e. I now need to ask you to play with max_cstate=. For that you'll

Re: [Xen-devel] Regression, host crash with 4.5rc1

2014-11-25 Thread Steve Freitas
On 11/25/2014 12:16 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: (XEN) 'c' pressed - printing ACPI Cx structures (XEN) ==cpu0== (XEN) active state:C0 (XEN) max_cstate:C7 (XEN) states: (XEN) C1:type[C1] latency[001] usage[5664] method[ FFH] duration[4042540627] (XEN) C2:type[C3]

Re: [Xen-devel] Regression, host crash with 4.5rc1

2014-11-24 Thread Steve Freitas
On Nov 24, 2014, at 00:45, Jan Beulich jbeul...@suse.com wrote: On 23.11.14 at 02:28, sfl...@ihonk.com wrote: With mwait-idle=0: (XEN) 'c' pressed - printing ACPI Cx structures (XEN) ==cpu0== (XEN) active state: C0 (XEN) max_cstate: C7 (XEN) states: (XEN)

Re: [Xen-devel] Regression, host crash with 4.5rc1

2014-11-20 Thread Steve Freitas
Hi Jan, Thanks for all your help so far! Here's my latest update. On 11/17/2014 23:54, Jan Beulich wrote: Plus, without said adjustment, first just disable the MWAIT CPU idle driver (mwait-idle=0) and then, if that didn't make a difference, use of C states altogether (cpuidle=0). If any of

Re: [Xen-devel] Regression, host crash with 4.5rc1

2014-11-19 Thread Steve Freitas
On 11/17/2014 23:54, Jan Beulich wrote: On 17.11.14 at 20:21, sfl...@ihonk.com wrote: Okay, I did a bisection and was not able to correlate the above error message with the problem I'm seeing. Not saying it's not related, but I had plenty of successful test runs in the presence of that error.

Re: [Xen-devel] Regression, host crash with 4.5rc1

2014-11-10 Thread Steve Freitas
On 11/10/2014 0:51, Jan Beulich wrote: On 10.11.14 at 09:03, sfl...@ihonk.com wrote: Sorry for the delay, took some debugging on another computer to get serial logging working. Due to its size, I've posted the entire log of a crashed session here: http://pastebin.com/AiPHUZRH In this case I