similar to: [PATCH] virtio_net: invoke softirqs after __napi_schedule

This fixes a hanging issue during guest shutdown. The device is left enabled even though we removed it and disabled msix during shutdown. If the virtio device happens to get a new event right at this point, seeing msix is disabled, it may try to notify us with an IRQ, which is totally unexpected thus will not be handled. In this case the guest hangs. Let's reset the device so that it will

This fixes a hanging issue during guest shutdown. The device is left enabled even though we removed it and disabled msix during shutdown. If the virtio device happens to get a new event right at this point, seeing msix is disabled, it may try to notify us with an IRQ, which is totally unexpected thus will not be handled. In this case the guest hangs. Let's reset the device so that it will

On some hypervisors, virtio devices tend to generate spurious interrupts when switching between MSI and non-MSI mode. Normally, either MSI or non-MSI is used and all is well, but during shutdown, linux disables MSI which then causes an "irq %d: nobody cared" message, with irq being subsequently disabled. Since bus mastering is already disabled at this point, disabling MSI isn't

On some hypervisors, virtio devices tend to generate spurious interrupts when switching between MSI and non-MSI mode. Normally, either MSI or non-MSI is used and all is well, but during shutdown, linux disables MSI which then causes an "irq %d: nobody cared" message, with irq being subsequently disabled. Since bus mastering is already disabled at this point, disabling MSI isn't

Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com> writes: > On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 06:32:35PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> On some hypervisors, virtio devices tend to generate spurious interrupts >> when switching between MSI and non-MSI mode. Normally, either MSI or >> non-MSI is used and all is well, but during shutdown, linux disables MSI >> which then causes an

Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas at google.com> writes: > On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 06:32:35PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> On some hypervisors, virtio devices tend to generate spurious interrupts >> when switching between MSI and non-MSI mode. Normally, either MSI or >> non-MSI is used and all is well, but during shutdown, linux disables MSI >> which then causes an

With the ATI bug I was hitting earlier fixed, only my btrfs partition continues to show high cpu usage for some operations. Rsync, git pull, git checkout and svn up are typicall operations which trigger the high cpu usage. As an example, this perf report is from using git checkout to change to a new branch; the change needed to checkout 208 files out of about 1600 total files. du(1) reports

On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 06:32:35PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On some hypervisors, virtio devices tend to generate spurious interrupts > when switching between MSI and non-MSI mode. Normally, either MSI or > non-MSI is used and all is well, but during shutdown, linux disables MSI > which then causes an "irq %d: nobody cared" message, with irq being > subsequently

In "Understanding the Linux Kernel" 3rd edition, section 4.7 "Softirqs and Tasklets" it states: "Activation and execution [of defferable functions] are bound together: a deferrable function that has been activated by a given CPU must be executed on the same CPU. There is no self-evident reason suggesting that this rule is beneficial for system performance. Binding the

Hi, Keir, Thanks for checking in cpu online/offline support. Another thought inspired by Kevin, due to the time sequence that different cpus enter the stop machine context, there is a small window that some kind of softirqs (say softirq_A) are issued to the dying cpu right after the dying cpu has already handled softirq_A in do_softirq before entering stop_machine softirq. So this softirq_A

On Thu, 03/12 17:22, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:11:35PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > > On Wed, 03/11 10:06, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:09:17PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > > > > Currently shutdown is nop for virtio devices, but the core code could > > > > remove things behind us such as MSI-X handler

On Thu, 03/12 17:22, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:11:35PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > > On Wed, 03/11 10:06, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:09:17PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > > > > Currently shutdown is nop for virtio devices, but the core code could > > > > remove things behind us such as MSI-X handler

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Nathan March <nathan at gt.net> wrote: > Just a heads up that I'm seeing major stability problems on these builds. > Didn't have console capture setup unfortunately, but have seen my test > hypervisor hard lock twice over the weekend. > > This is with xpti being used, rather than the shim. Thanks for the heads-up. It's been

I''m working on a new hypercall, do_confer, which allows the directed yielding of a vcpu to another vcpu. It is mainly used when a vcpu fails to acquire a spinlock, yielding to the lock holder instead of spinning. I ported the ppc64 spinlock implementation for the i386 linux portion. In implementing the hypercall, I''ve been trying to figure out how to get the scheduler

> Thanks for the heads-up. It's been running through XenServer's tests > as well as the XenProject's "osstest" -- I haven't heard of any > additional issues, but I'll ask. Looks like I can reproduce this pretty easily, this happened upon ssh'ing into the server while I had a VM migrating into it. The system goes completely unresponsive (can't even

I attempted an upgrade of our production system from Asterisk/Zaptel 1.2 to 1.4 this weekend. Intially everything looked like it was working properly, but some time in the day following the upgrade, the system died to a kernel panic. I wasn't able to catch the entire kernel dump on the console unfortunately. I attempted to isolate the panic, and found that when 'service zaptel stop'

Dual Opteron system running ext3 atop drbd (network RAID) devices, which, in turn, are atop LVM logical volumes. The underlying device is hardware SCSI RAID via a LSILogic HBA. The kernel is vanilla 2.6.13 on a Gentoo-based system. A panic occurred, which contains references to ext3 code. I'm not sure how others manage to get these typed out, but I'm manually typing it from

Hi, On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:35:24AM -0800, Nathan March wrote: > > Thanks for the heads-up. It's been running through XenServer's tests > > as well as the XenProject's "osstest" -- I haven't heard of any > > additional issues, but I'll ask. > > Looks like I can reproduce this pretty easily, this happened upon ssh'ing > into the

Just gave 3.0 a spin. Had been running 2.0.7 for the past 3 months or so without problems (aside from intermittent failure during live migration). Anyway, 3.0 seems to have an issue with my machine. It starts up the 4 domains that I''ve got defined (was running 6 user domains with 2.0.7, but two of those were running 2.4 kernels which I can''t seem to build with Xen 3.0 yet, and

Greetings, I''ve been experiencing problems with HTB where the whole machine locks up. This usually happens when the whole qdisc is being removed and occasionally when a leaf is being removed. Common is that it always happens when some sort of removal is in progress. Console output I have captured is at the end of this message. The same behavior exists from vanilla 2.6.19.7 and above.