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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] X86/vmx: Dump PIR and vIRR before ASSERT()



On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 02:51:54AM -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 07.02.17 at 00:32, <chao.gao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Commit c7bdecae42 ("x86/apicv: fix RTC periodic timer and apicv issue") has
> > added a assertion that intack.vector is the highest priority vector. But
> > according to the osstest, the assertion failed sometimes. More discussion 
> > can
> > be found in the thread
> > (https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-01/msg01019.html).
> > 
> > The assertion failure is hard to reproduce. In order to root cause issue, 
> > this
> > patch is to add logs to dump PIR and vIRR when failure takes place. It 
> > should
> > be reverted once the root cause is found.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chao Gao <chao.gao@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If this wasn't just a temporary thing, I'd have some comments, but
> it's good enough (perhaps with a little massaging when committing)
> for this purpose.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ian, Wei, is there a way to automatically scan osstest logs for
> occurrences of the extra output, or does someone need to look
> through the logs of every spurious failure?
> 

I don't think there is automatically scanning in place.

> Jan
> 

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