Bug#988333: linux-image-5.10.0-6-amd64: VGA Intel IGD Passthrough to Debian Xen HVM DomUs not working, but Windows Xen HVMs do work

2021-10-19 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 5/10/2021 1:33 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.28-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, I have been using Xen's PCI and VGA passthrough feature since wheezy and jessie were the stable versions, and back then both Windows HVMs and Linux HVMs

Bug#991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-29 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
This corrects typos - I referenced the wrong bug # in a few places. On 9/25/2021 11:27 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: Since the purpose of the bug reports is to find and diagnose bugs, I did a bit of experimentation and made some observations. I checked out the Debian Xen source via git. I got t

Bug#991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-27 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
ra three commits. Perhaps it depends on differences in the BIOS or EFI, or maybe systemd vs. sysv. I share this result in case it is of help to you. Regards, Chuck Zmudzinski

Bug#991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-26 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/26/2021 8:46 AM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/25/2021 11:27 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: Unfortunately I was too quick at installing the rebuilt 4.14.3-1 and I missed trying the vanilla Debian 4.14.2+25-gb6a8c4f72d-2 with Linux 4.19.181-1.  I believe this combination would have hung during

Bug#991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-26 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/25/2021 11:27 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: Unfortunately I was too quick at installing the rebuilt 4.14.3-1 and I missed trying the vanilla Debian 4.14.2+25-gb6a8c4f72d-2 with Linux 4.19.181-1. I believe this combination would have hung during reboot. In light of what I discovered while

Bug#991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-26 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/25/2021 11:27 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: The second we seem to have a fix. The only question is how many patches to cherry pick? bc141e8ca562 is non-urgent as it is merely superficial and not needed for functionality. 5a4087004d1a is a workaround for Linux kernel breakage, but how likely

Bug#991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-25 Thread Fr. Chuck Zmudzinski, C.P.M.
On 9/25/2021 11:27 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 06:33:20AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: I presume you are suggesting I try booting 4.19.181-1 on the current version of Xen-4.14 for bullseye as a dom0. I am not inclined to try it until an official Debian developer

Bug#983357: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-09-21 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/24/2021 7:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 03:27:19PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: Ben Hutchings writes: I think a proper fix would be one of: a. If the Xen virtual keyboard driver is advertising capabilities it doesn't have, stop it doing that. b. Change the implem

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-21 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/21/2021 9:13 AM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/20/2021 10:37 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 10:23:39PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/20/21 7:39 PM, Diederik de Haas wrote: On dinsdag 21 september 2021 01:15:15 CEST Elliott Mitchell wrote: Merely having the path

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-21 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/20/2021 10:37 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 10:23:39PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/20/21 7:39 PM, Diederik de Haas wrote: On dinsdag 21 september 2021 01:15:15 CEST Elliott Mitchell wrote: Merely having the path is a sufficiently strong indicator for me to

Bug#991967: linux-src 4.19.194-3 breaks Xen Dom0 powerdown and reboot

2021-09-21 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/21/21 7:22 AM, Fr. Chuck Zmudzinski, C.P.M. wrote: On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 08:40:14 +0200 Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 11:50:54AM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > Package: src:linux > > Vers

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-21 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/20/21 10:12 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/20/21 6:29 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/20/21 1:43 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/20/21 12:27 AM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: I suspect the following patch is the culprit

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-21 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/20/21 10:37 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 10:23:39PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/20/21 7:39 PM, Diederik de Haas wrote: On dinsdag 21 september 2021 01:15:15 CEST Elliott Mitchell wrote: Merely having the path is a sufficiently strong indicator for me to

Bug#991967: linux-src 4.19.194-3 breaks Xen Dom0 powerdown and reboot

2021-09-21 Thread Fr. Chuck Zmudzinski, C.P.M.
s as a bug in src:xen, since the original reporter has not been able to identify a commit in src:linux that caused the bug and no one has been able to reproduce the bug on Xen-4.11/Linux-4.19.194-3. Regards, Chuck Zmudzinski

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-20 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/20/21 7:39 PM, Diederik de Haas wrote: On dinsdag 21 september 2021 01:15:15 CEST Elliott Mitchell wrote: Merely having the path is a sufficiently strong indicator for me to simply wave it past. I though would suggest Debian should instead cherry-pick commit 0f089bbf43ecce6f27576cb548ba4

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-20 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/20/21 6:29 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/20/21 1:43 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/20/21 12:27 AM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: I suspect the following patch is the culprit for problems shutting down on the amd64

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-20 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/20/21 1:43 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/20/21 12:27 AM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: I suspect the following patch is the culprit for problems shutting down on the amd64 architecture: 0030-xen-acpi-Rework

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-20 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/20/21 12:27 AM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: I suspect the following patch is the culprit for problems shutting down on the amd64 architecture: 0030-xen-acpi-Rework-acpi_os_map_memory-and-acpi_os_unmap.patch This patch does

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-20 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/20/21 12:27 AM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: xen hypervisor version: 4.14.2+25-gb6a8c4f72d-2, amd64 linux kernel version: 5.10.46-4 (the current amd64 kernel for bullseye) Boot system: EFI, not using secure boot, booting xen

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-19 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/19/2021 9:30 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/19/2021 4:53 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 03:54:01PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/19/2021 1:29 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: Have you tried memory ballooning with PVH or HVM domains? That combination has been

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-19 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/19/2021 4:53 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 03:54:01PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 9/19/2021 1:29 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: Have you tried memory ballooning with PVH or HVM domains? That combination has been reliably crashing Xen for me for a while

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-19 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/19/2021 1:29 PM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: I noticed this bug on bullseye ever since I have been running bullseye as a dom0, but my testing indicates there is no problem with src:linux but the problem appeared in src:xen with

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-19 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/19/2021 10:56 AM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 01:05:56AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2021 13:29:12 +0200 Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 06:47:12PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > > An experiment lead to

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-19 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 9/19/2021 1:05 AM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: Hello Elliott and Salvatore, I noticed this bug on bullseye ever since I have been running bullseye as a dom0, but my testing indicates there is no problem with src:linux but the problem appeared in src:xen with the 4.14 version of xen on bullseye

Bug#991967: #991967: Simply ACPI powerdown/reset issue?

2021-09-19 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
s a bug in src:xen. I also would inquire with the Debian Xen Team about why they are backporting patches from the upstream xen unstable branch into Debian's 4.14 package that is currently shipping on Debian stable (bullseye). IMHO, the aforementioned patches that are not in the stable 4.14 bra

Bug#983357: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-26 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/26/2021 8:01 AM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 8/24/2021 7:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: The current limit on the environment of a uevent appears to be 2 KB (UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE defined in ).� That seems like it *might* be easier to change, so long as user-space doesn't have a similar

Bug#983357: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-26 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/24/2021 7:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: The current limit on the environment of a uevent appears to be 2 KB (UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE defined in ). That seems like it *might* be easier to change, so long as user-space doesn't have a similar limit. I looked into systemd/udev, and it seems to use a

Bug#983357: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-25 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/25/2021 4:16 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: Chuck Zmudzinski writes: If it doesn't work, I am also willing to try approach a by patching the Linux kernel xen-kbdfront driver by removing the for loops that advertise those 654 keys. I tend to agree with Philip that this is totally unnecessary

Bug#983357: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-25 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/24/2021 7:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: Text-based sysfs attributes are limited to a page, but udev receives uevents through netlink, not sysfs. The current limit on the environment of a uevent appears to be 2 KB (UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE defined in ). That seems like it *might* be easier to chan

Bug#983357: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-25 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/25/2021 12:45 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 8/24/2021 7:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 03:27:19PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: Ben Hutchings writes: I think a proper fix would be one of: a. If the Xen virtual keyboard driver is advertising capabilities it ��ï

Bug#983357: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-25 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/24/2021 7:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 03:27:19PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: Ben Hutchings writes: I think a proper fix would be one of: a. If the Xen virtual keyboard driver is advertising capabilities it doesn't have, stop it doing that. b. Change the implem

Bug#983357: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-25 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/25/2021 10:54 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2021-08-24 at 15:19 -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 8/24/2021 1:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] I think a proper fix would be one of: a. If the Xen virtual keyboard driver is advertising capabilities it doesn't have, stop it

Bug#983357: Bug#988776: Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-24 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/24/2021 1:12 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2021-08-24 at 10:56 -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 5/24/2021 3:30 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: Hi Phillip Am 24.05.2021 um 06:19 schrieb Cyril Brulebois: trigger to cold plug all devices.  Both scripts are set -e.  The Xen Virtual Keyboard

Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-24 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
to update old device drivers so they are compatible with the modern version? Does the Xen virtual keyboard need to be managed by udev? Is there a simple way to disable incompatible devices so udev ignores them? Chuck Zmudzinski

Bug#983357: Netinst crashes xen domU when loading kernel

2021-08-24 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
on media is for. Chuck Zmudzinski

Bug#988333: linux-image-5.10.0-6-amd64: VGA Intel IGD Passthrough to Debian Xen HVM DomUs not working, but Windows Xen HVMs do work

2021-05-10 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
Package: src:linux Version: 5.10.28-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, I have been using Xen's PCI and VGA passthrough feature since wheezy and jessie were the stable versions, and back then both Windows HVMs and Linux HVMs would function with the Intel Integrated Graphics Devic