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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: pvops kernel branches - 2.6.36 options, stable/next/etc?



On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:20:25PM -0800, Bruce Edge wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Boris Derzhavets 
>> <bderzhavets@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>> > Konrad,
>> >
>> > 2.6.35.8 (mainline) works as PV DomU kernel ( at Xen 4.0.1 Dom0)  with NFS
>> > remote folder  with no issues. So,  2.6.35.8, 2.6.36 been built via 
>> > upstream
>> > source are OK. Seems  to be .37-rc1 bug
>> >
>> >
>> I agree. I reinstalled a 2.6.36 domU and am unable to get it to crash using
>> the same actions that reliably crashed the 2.6.37-rc1 domU.
>>
>> Would it be worth bisecting the konrad-pcifront-2.6.32 branch to find which
>> it started failing?
>
> I think you meant another branch....but I don't believe the problem is related
> to the pcifront. Boris was able to trigger this without using the XenPCI 
> front.

Right, good point. I fell back to that branch as we'd been running OK
with it for a while.

>
> It might make more sense to bisect from 2.6.36 through 2.6.36-rc1 timeframe.

I'm assuming 37-rc1 not 36-rc1.

> During the merge window time when a lot of patches went in. It seems to point
> to network since that is how you guys are triggering it..
>
>> I think that 8029255fcc3a7925ad8ee9f5fdc0764b6662301e (on 10/24) was the
>> last good sync that I got.
>
> Ah, that would be the stable/xen-pcifront-0.8.1 tree. And it was based off
> v2.6.36-rc7. There is also the stable/xen-pcifront-0.8.2 tree
> (5bba6c56dc99ff88f79a79572e29ecf445710878) - which for some mysterious
> reasons on git.kernel.org was tracking the #master branch, so it ended up
> pointing to stable/xen-pcifront-fixes.. I fixed it, but that one 
> (xen-pcifront-0.8.2)
> is based on v2.6.36-rc6, so even older (that was required as it was based on 
> sparse_irq
> rework).

I'll look for it in the mainline.

-Bruce

>
>

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