Re: [Xen-devel] Windows "heinsenbug" (WAS: Re: Notes Design Session: Making Releases Lessons Learned: Improving Our Release Process and Tooling)

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

On 13/09/17 19:26, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xen-devel [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > Julien Grall
> > Sent: 13 September 2017 10:52
> > To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>; Jan Beuli ch <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>; Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>;
> > ross.philipson@xxxxxxxxx; lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx; xen-
> > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; committers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Xen-devel] Windows "heinsenbug" (WAS: Re: Notes Design
> > Session: Making Releases Lessons Learned: Improving Our Release Process
> > and Tooling)
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On 07/27/2017 05:56 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Jan Beulich writes ("Re: Notes Design Session: Making Releases Lessons
> > Learned: Improving Our Release Process and Tooling"):
> > > > [Lars:]
> > > > > Ian: These are most likely software problems, most likely in Xen.
> > > > > ISSUE: nobody wants to debug Windows Heisenbugs
> > > > Hmm, I think we believe to have understood what the issue is, it's just
> > that
> > > > the change needed is on the tool stack side (gracefully deal with a domain
> > > > rebooting while being migrated).
> > > No, the problem is that we don't understand why the domain is
> > > rebooting.  It should not be.
> > This bug still seem to be around and likely going to impact once again
> > the release testing.
> >
> > As discussed during the summit, I am really thinking to make this
> > "heinsenbug" a blocker until somehow finally spend sometimes
> > investigating the problem and suggest actions.
> If testing was done with PV drivers installed then we could get a lot more 
> information into the logs. BSODs vs. clean shutdowns (perhaps due to Windows 
> Update) would then become obvious.
Would it be feasible to get those installed in osstest?

Cheers,

--
Julien Grall

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel