Re: [Xen-devel] Current state of Xen microcode (Was: Re: uploading 3.16~rc5-1~exp1)

2014-08-04 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 04.08.14 at 16:07, wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 03:59:37PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 15.07.14 at 16:59, wrote: >> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 09:53:32AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> >> Adding xen-devel and some of the Linux

Re: [Xen-devel] Current state of Xen microcode (Was: Re: uploading 3.16~rc5-1~exp1)

2014-07-23 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 15.07.14 at 16:59, wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 09:53:32AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> Adding xen-devel and some of the Linux maints, >> >> On Mon, 2014-07-14 at 23:22 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: >> > I will upload tomorrow Tuesday around 22h00 UT to experimental. >> > >> > Ther

Re: [Xen-devel] pvops microcode support for AMD FAM >= 15

2012-12-06 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 06.12.12 at 09:34, Ian Campbell wrote: > (trim quote please...) > On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 21:47 +, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> Do you want to prep a patch that I can stick in my 'microcode' branch? >> .. That I will at some point try to upstream. > > You might want to look back at th

Re: [Xen-devel] pvops microcode support for AMD FAM >= 15

2012-12-05 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 05.12.12 at 17:48, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > On 12/05/2012 07:43 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: >> I've just tried this on a fam 15h and I get: >> >> (XEN) microcode: collect_cpu_info: patch_id=0x6000626 >> (XEN) microcode: size 5260, block size 2592, offset 60 >> (XEN) m

Re: pvops microcode support for AMD FAM >= 15

2012-11-26 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 26.11.12 at 14:21, Ian Campbell wrote: > Debian has decided to take Jeremy's microcode patch [0] as an interim > measure for their next release. (TL;DR -- Debian is shipping pvops Linux > 3.2 and Xen 4.1 in the next release. See http://bugs.debian.org/693053 > and https://lists.debian.org/

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the "clock shifts by 50 minutes" bug.

2012-11-13 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 09.11.12 at 10:05, wrote: Since it looks like this got stalled again, attached is a slightly extended version of Keir's debugging patch, allowing to rule out any inconsistencies of the globals between the first and second instances of the two invocations of __read_platform_stime(). Should

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the "clock shifts by 50 minutes" bug.

2012-11-09 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 09.11.12 at 10:05, wrote: > oops, excuse me, here is a description : I have the problem on 4 systems, > all with same hardware. > the problem occured on each system, 1 time each 2 month in average. since > January 2012, I decided to reboot them all monthly, > and the clock jump occurred

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the "clock shifts by 50 minutes" bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 08.11.12 at 11:38, Keir Fraser wrote: > On 08/11/2012 09:39, "Jan Beulich" wrote: > >>>>>> (XEN) XXX plt_overflow: plt_now=5ece12d34128 plt_wrap=5ece12d09306 >>>>>> now=5ece12d16292 old_stamp=35c7c new_stamp=800366a5 >

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the "clock shifts by 50 minutes" bug.

2012-11-08 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 07.11.12 at 18:40, Keir Fraser wrote: > On 07/11/2012 13:22, "Ian Campbell" wrote: > (XEN) XXX plt_overflow: plt_now=5ece12d34128 plt_wrap=5ece12d09306 now=5ece12d16292 old_stamp=35c7c new_stamp=800366a5 plt_stamp64=15b800366a5 plt_mask= tsc=e3839fd23854 tsc_st

Bug#599161: [Xen-devel] #599161: Xen debug patch for the "clock shifts by 50 minutes" bug.

2012-11-07 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 07.11.12 at 11:10, wrote: > i compiled a patched hypervisor for Mauro, it is running since many days > and the overflow occured, > without clock jumps > >> (XEN) XXX plt_overflow: plt_now=5ece12d34128 plt_wrap=5ece12d09306 >> now=5ece12d16292 old_stamp=35c7c new_stamp=800366a5 >> plt_st

Bug#676360: [Xen-devel] xen: oops at atomic64_read_cx8+0x4

2012-06-07 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> Andrea Arcangeli 06/07/12 12:35 PM >>> >Oops, sorry I didn't imagine atomic64_read on a pmd would trip. The problem really is that the cmpxchg8b is a write, and hence won't go through without faulting on a write protected page (which all page table pages necessarily are). >I guess if Xen can

Bug#642154: [Xen-devel] Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8803bb6ad000

2011-10-11 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 11.10.11 at 10:02, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 08:07 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 10.10.11 at 18:49, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk >> >>> wrote: >> > On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 10:13:14AM +0400, rush wrote: >> &g

Bug#642154: [Xen-devel] Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8803bb6ad000

2011-10-11 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 10.10.11 at 18:49, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 10:13:14AM +0400, rush wrote: >> OK, I tried it again, but Oops didn't gone. > .. snip.. >> echo'Loading Xen 4.0-amd64 ...' >> multiboot /boot/xen-4.0-amd64.gz placeholder xsave=0 > .. snip..

Bug#544145: [Xen-devel] Crash with paravirt-ops 2.6.31.6 kernel

2009-11-25 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge 25.11.09 22:24 >>> >On 11/25/09 02:22, Jan Beulich wrote: >> Okay, I think I spotted the relevant difference: 2.6.18 and forward ports >> set VGCF_in_syscall only when returning from 64-bit system calls (through >> ret_from_sys_cal

Bug#544145: [Xen-devel] Crash with paravirt-ops 2.6.31.6 kernel

2009-11-25 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> Ian Campbell 23.11.09 17:44 >>> >On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 16:31 +, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >> It does not happen on XenSource 2.6.18 kernel >> > >> >I assume that this kernel (perhaps coincidentally) manages to use >> >FLAT_USER_CS32

Bug#544145: [Xen-devel] Crash with paravirt-ops 2.6.31.6 kernel

2009-11-23 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> Ian Campbell 23.11.09 16:25 >>> >Perhaps simply not returning guest userspace with sysret (as above) >makes most sense, a syscall already takes a trap through the hypervisor >on both entry and exit so I'm not sure the difference between sysret and >iret is going to be noticeable. But this is