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[Xen-devel] Re: Hot plug scripts not working c/s 19355

To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Hot plug scripts not working c/s 19355
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:05:44 -0700
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Dan Magenheimer wrote:
A heads-up that I just got a "(tap)...Hotplug scripts not working"
completely unrelated to pvops.

I updated hypervisor and tools (but notably NOT dom0 kernel) to
xen-unstable c/s 19355.  Launching a domain now fails with the
above error.  Rolling tools (only) back to 19187 makes the
problem go away.

Any chance you could try to pinpoint the failing version?

Is there maybe a new dependency between tools and dom0 kernel?

There's certainly nothing explicit. Bisecting the kernel seemed to point to some cleanups I did around /dev/privcmd, but that's not really used for hotplug/xenbus stuff (I mean, it is at a low level, but surely xenbus would break entirely if it were broken). And those changes work with older tools. (And the bisection was probably lead astray by the other hotplug bug.)

Maybe some timing/ordering thing? Unfortunately I know very little about how things are supposed to work at that level. IanC said that he thought that xenbus watches were failing to fire, which makes me wonder if Gerd's xenstore fixes might be worth looking at more closely.

   J

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