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

2014-11-28 Thread Steve Freitas
On Nov 28, 2014, at 00:50, Jan Beulich wrote: On 28.11.14 at 09:24, 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 by just forcing >>

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

2014-11-26 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] l

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

2014-11-24 Thread Steve Freitas
On 24.11.14 at 10:08, wrote: On Nov 24, 2014, at 00:45, Jan Beulich wrote: On 23.11.14 at 02:28, wrote: As promised, below is the apic-verbosity=debug log, with 'i'. Thanks! I'm sorry, I misspelled the option, it's really "apic_verbosity=debug". The 'i' output at least already confirms that

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

2014-11-24 Thread Steve Freitas
On Nov 24, 2014, at 00:45, Jan Beulich wrote: On 23.11.14 at 02:28, 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) C1: type[C1]

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

2014-11-22 Thread Steve Freitas
On 11/21/2014 0:42, Jan Beulich wrote: On 20.11.14 at 21:07, wrote: Running with mwait-idle=0 solves (hides?) the problem. Next step is to fiddle with the C states? For that I'd first of all like to know how much use of C states the system still makes with that option in place. For that I'd ne

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, 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. Took me about a w

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

2014-11-17 Thread Steve Freitas
Hi Jan, On 11/11/2014 0:05, Jan Beulich wrote: And these [ 199.775209] pcieport :00:03.0: AER: Multiple Corrected error received: id=0018 [ 199.775238] pcieport :00:03.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Data Link Layer, id=0018(Transmitter ID) [ 199.7

[Xen-devel] configure: error: Unable to find Python development headers

2014-11-11 Thread Steve Freitas
Hi, I'm trying to do some bisection to find the cause of my VGA passthrough issues, but gcc 4.9 is throwing too many warnings, all of which are interpreted as errors, which kills the build. So I'm trying to compile with 4.8. Unfortunately, ./configure chokes because it says it can't find Pyth

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, 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 used a 3.0 gig memor

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

2014-11-10 Thread Steve Freitas
On 11/04/2014 02:15 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: In fact this would not just be nice, but is strictly needed, and (as with any pass-through related problems) additionally requires running with "iommu=debug" alongside the usual need of setting the log levels to the maximum. Hi all, Sorry for the del