On 07/11/2018 10:30, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> Hi Juergen / Boris,
> 
> Last week i tested Linux kernel 4.19.0 stable with the Xen "for-linus-4.20" 
> branch pulled on top.
> Unfortunately i was seeing guests lockup after some time, see below for the 
> logging from one of the guest
> which i was able to capture.
> Reverting "xen: make xen_qlock_wait() nestable" 
> 7250f6d35681dfc44749d90598a2d51a118ce2b8,
> made the lockups disappear.
> 
> These guests are stressed quite hard in both CPU and networking, 
> so they are probably more susceptible to locking issues.
> 
> System is a AMD phenom x6, running Xen-unstable.
> 
> Any ideas ?

Just checked the hypervisor again: it seems a pending interrupt for a
HVM/PVH vcpu won't let SCHEDOP_poll return in case interrupts are
disabled.

I need to rework the patch for that scenario. Until then I'll revert
it.


Juergen

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