RE: [Xen-devel] blktap2: need more than 3 values to unpack

[Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Followup: my dom0 boots failed with 888, boots fine with 876,
then to ensure no pilot error, I rebuilt 888 again and it
failed again.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Magenheimer 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 5:50 PM
> To: Keir Fraser; Dutch Meyer; Xen-Devel (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] blktap2: need more than 3 values to unpack
> 
> 
> Thanks.  It is indeed a pilot error on my part but a bit
> more bizarre.  I apparently have a linux-2.6-xen.hg directory
> as both a sister and a child to xen-unstable.hg.  In this
> case the build apparently chooses the child.  I was
> looking at and modifying the un-updated child so
> blktap2 wasn't even present yet.  Removing the child
> causes the sibling to build.  BUT! Now dom0 is
> crashing early on during boot.  (This is an Intel
> Weybridge box.)  I'll look into this further tomorrow.
> 
> ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
> ata2.00: ATAPI, max UDMA/100
> ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
> scsi2 : ahci
> ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
> scsi3 : ahci
> ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
>   Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3320620AS       Rev: 3.AA
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> ata1: EH pending after completion, repeating EH (cnt=4)
>   Vendor: LITE-ON   Model: DVDRW LH-20A1S    Rev: 9L03
>   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> (XEN) PCI add device 00:1f.5
> ata_piix 0000:00:1f.5: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0 ctl 0x2 bmdma 0x0 irq 16
> ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x0 ctl 0x2 bmdma 0x0 irq 16
> scsi4 : ata_piix
> scsi5 : ata_piix
> device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: 
> dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>  (XEN) Domain 0 crashed: rebooting machine in 5 seconds.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Keir Fraser [mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:45 PM
> > To: Dan Magenheimer; Dutch Meyer; Xen-Devel (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] blktap2: need more than 3 values to unpack
> > 
> > 
> > Probably you had an old .config hanging around in your build 
> > tree somewhere.
> > c/s 889 should fix this for a fresh build.
> > 
> >  -- Keir
> > 
> > On 02/06/2009 18:33, "Dan Magenheimer" 
> > <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks.  Looks like a partial configuration patch got checked
> > > in for blktap2 (cs 886)?  CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_TAP2 must be 
> configured
> > > but afaict is not turned on by default (yet?).  So a fresh
> > > xen-unstable tip doesn't build the blktap2 driver.  See:
> > > 
> > > http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/3e01555dd227
> > > 
> > > (I'm guessing since this was submitted by Isaku that blktap2
> > > shouldn't be the default on ia64?)
> > > 
> > > Should CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_TAP2 be turned on by default, instead
> > > of CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_TAP, at least on x86?
> > > 
> > > I tried modifying
> > > 
> > > linux-2.6.18-xen.hg/buildconfigs/linux-defconfig_xen0_x86_32
> > > 
> > > (and also
> > > 
> > > linux-2.6.18-xen.hg/buildconfigs/linux-defconfig_xen_x86_32)
> > > 
> > > followed by:
> > > 
> > > KERNELS=linux-2.6-xen0 make linux-2.6-xen-config 
> > CONFIGMODE=oldconfig
> > > 
> > > (I don't need or want to go through a manual config process)
> > > 
> > > but BLKDEV_TAP is always selected, not BLKDEV_TAP2.
> > > 
> > > Finally, I resorted to manually changing
> > > 
> > > linux-2.6.18-xen.hg/drivers/xen/Kconfig
> > > 
> > > and this succeeds in turning it on, but it just reverses the
> > > above checked-in patch, so I suspect that's not the right
> > > answer either.
> > > 
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Dutch Meyer [mailto:dmeyer@xxxxxxxxx]
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:05 AM
> > >> To: Dan Magenheimer
> > >> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] blktap2: need more than 3 
> values to unpack
> > >> 
> > >> 
> > >> I think that you don't have the blktap2 driver loaded in
> > >> dom0.  A clean 
> > >> build/install of the dom0 kernel image should sort you out.  If
> > >> drivers/xen/blktap2 is compiled in it should be setting up
> > >> these paths.
> > >> 
> > >> Let me know if that fixes things and I'll make python 
> spit out more
> > >> meaningful errors, otherwise we can try to figure out the
> > >> blktap2 kernel 
> > >> code isn't working.
> > >> 
> > >> --Dutch
> > >> 
> > >> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > >> 
> > >>> It replies with "didn't find blktap-control in /proc/misc"
> > >>> 
> > >>> If that fails, perhaps the path doesn't exist, but I looked
> > >>> and /sys/class/blktap2 doesn't exist.
> > >>> 
> > >>>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>>> From: Dutch Meyer [mailto:dmeyer@xxxxxxxxx]
> > >>>> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 10:37 PM
> > >>>> To: Dan Magenheimer
> > >>>> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] blktap2: need more than 3 
> > values to unpack
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> Can you try this from the command line:
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>      tapdisk2 -n aio:/pathto/file.img
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> If successful, this will create your aio device and print a
> > >>>> /dev device
> > >>>> associated with it.
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> In that case you'll then be able to remove it with:
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>      echo 1 > /sys/class/blktap2/<disk>/remove
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> Where <disk> will be obvious from the output of the
> > >> tapdisk2 command.
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> However, I expect that this will fail.
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> --Dutch
> > >>>> 
> > >>>> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > >>>> 
> > >>>>>> Then I might be able to help, but I'm not sure how to
> > >>>>>> reproduce it.  If
> > >>>>>> you send a log file and config for this latter error I'll
> > >>>>>> take a look.
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>> Here ya go.
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>> Thanks,
> > >>>>> Dan
> > >>>>> 
> > >>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>>>>> From: Dutch Meyer [mailto:dmeyer@xxxxxxxxx]
> > >>>>>> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 8:32 PM
> > >>>>>> To: Dan Magenheimer
> > >>>>>> Cc: Xen-Devel (E-mail)
> > >>>>>> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] blktap2: need more than 3
> > >> values to unpack
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> The tap:aio:/pathto/file.img syntax that you're using in your
> > >>>>>> config was
> > >>>>>> changed before blktap2 was introduced.
> > >>>>>> tap:tapdisk:aio:/pathto/file.img is
> > >>>>>> apparently the correct syntax now, though the README didn't
> > >>>>>> get updated to
> > >>>>>> reflect this.  Our blktap2 documentation is no better -
> > >> I'll try to
> > >>>>>> remedy that this week.
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> If you're still seeing this error:
> > >>>>>>     "Error: 'file' object has no attribute 'find'"
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> Then I might be able to help, but I'm not sure how to
> > >>>>>> reproduce it.  If
> > >>>>>> you send a log file and config for this latter error I'll
> > >>>>>> take a look.
> > >>>>>> Yang seems to be reporting the same thing in another thread.
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> --Dutch
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > >>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> Hmmm... trying blktap2 for the first time, using 19682.
> > >>>>>>> I had thought that the syntax hadn't changed, but I am
> > >>>>>>> getting what appears to be a parsing error on my vbd line.
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> "ValueError: need more than 3 values to unpack"
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> Thinking maybe that "w!" was the culprit, I changed
> > >>>>>>> it to "w" with no change in result.
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> Looking at the python code that generated the error,
> > >>>>>>> I tried to figure out the syntax by experimentation
> > >>>>>>> but without luck.  I tried:
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> tap:tapdisk:aio:/pathto/file.img
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> but got "Error: 'file' object has no attribute 'find'"
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> To see if I could use the old blktap, I tried
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> tap:tapdisk:ioemu:/pathto/file.img
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> but got the dreaded "Error: Device 768 (tap) could not be
> > >>>>>>> connected. Hotplug scripts not working"
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> Am I missing something in the syntax for blktap2?
> > >>>>>>> Is there a how-to or readme I didn't find?  Or
> > >>>>>>> is there some required dependency I don't know about
> > >>>>>>> that is missing?
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> I thought maybe I had a bad install, so rebuilt and
> > >>>>>>> reinstalled with the same result.
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> xend.log and config file attached.
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> Thanks,
> > >>>>>>> Dan
> > >>>>>>> 
> > >>>>>>> P.S. I am trying blktap2 because both blktap and
> > >>>>>>> file-backed fail.  Blktap sometimes reads garbage
> > >>>>>>> from the file and
> > >>>>>> 
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