similar to: NMI: Enable watchdog by default

The self_nmi() code cause''s an NMI to be triggered by sending an APIC message to the local processor. However, NMIs are blocked by the VMEXIT, until the next iret or VMENTER. Volume 3 Chapter 27 Section 1 of the Intel SDM states: An NMI causes subsequent NMIs to be blocked, but only after the VM exit completes. As a result, as soon as the VMENTER happens, an immediate VMEXIT happens

This issue came up when debugging pcpu linked list corruption (patches for that issue to follow). -- Andrew Cooper - Dom0 Kernel Engineer, Citrix XenServer T: +44 (0)1223 225 900, http://www.citrix.com _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

Call update_domain_wallclock_time on hvm_latch_shinfo_size even if the bitness of the guest has already been set, this fixes the problem with the wallclock not being set for PVHVM guests on resume from migration. Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org> Cc: George Dunlap

Also, rename to MOVE_CLEANUP_VECTOR to be in line with the other IPI names. This requires bumping LAST_HIPRIORITY_VECTOR, but does mean that the range FIRST-LAST_HIPRIORITY_VECTORs are free once again. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> diff -r 0268e7380953 -r c7884dbb6f7d xen/arch/x86/apic.c --- a/xen/arch/x86/apic.c Mon Sep 05 15:10:28 2011 +0100 +++

This series consists of improvements to Xen''s ability to print traces of its own stack, and specifically for the stack overflow case to be able to use frame pointers in a debug build. I have dev tested the series in debug and non-debug cases, with and without memory guards, and I believe that all the stack traces look correct (given the available information Xen has), and that the

Patch 1 removes CONFIG_SMP Patch 2 removes separate smp_{,r,w}mb()s as a result of patch 1 Patch 4 removes __ia64__ defines from the x86 arch tree Patch 3 is related to patch 4 and changes the VIOAPIC to emulate version 0x20 as a performance gain. It preceeds Patch 4 so as to be more clear about the functional change. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

Coverity IDs 1054956, 1054957 Coverity pointed out that we applying array operations based on an expression which yielded singleton pointers. The problem is actually that the externs were typed incorrectly. Correct the extern declaration to prevent straying into undefined behaviour, and relying on the lenience of GCC to work. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> CC:

Hi, we are experiencing significant performance degradation after live migration of hvm domains in Xen 4.0 (SLES11 SP1): after live migration the performance is dropping to less than 90%. I did a backport of cs 23420-23423 and the performance is okay now. I would like to request to include these changesets in 4.0 and 4.1. The backport is quite trivial, I can send patches if you are willing to

This series consists of improvements to Xen''s ability to print traces of its own stack, and specifically for the stack overflow case to be able to use frame pointers in a debug build. I have dev tested the series in debug and non-debug cases, with and without memory guards, and I believe that all the stack traces look correct. However, I would greatly appreciate a second opinion on the

The DMI checks that force the use of the bigsmp APIC driver are for systems that are no longer supported by Xen (32-bit x86). Signed-off-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> --- xen/arch/x86/genapic/bigsmp.c | 30 +----------------------------- 1 files changed, 1

The series "HVM firmware passthrough" series in Jan 2013 from Ross Philipson cause two regressions for HVM guests which sadly found their way into the Xen 4.3 release. The first regression causes an incorrect count of tables to be placed in the main header, and can be seen by running dmidecode in any applicable HVM domain. The second regression found its way into the public ABI, making

This will allow userspace to reason with the total number of CPUs, not just the current number of online CPUs. -- Andrew Cooper - Dom0 Kernel Engineer, Citrix XenServer T: +44 (0)1223 225 900, http://www.citrix.com _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

These two fixes are the final two outstanding issues in tools/firmware. They are both quite minor. Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> -- 1.7.10.4

xen/arch/x86/crash.c | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- xen/arch/x86/machine_kexec.c | 19 ++++++ xen/arch/x86/x86_64/entry.S | 34 +++++++++++ xen/include/asm-x86/desc.h | 45 +++++++++++++++ xen/include/asm-x86/processor.h | 4 + 5 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) Experimentally, certain crash kernels will triple fault very early

Wei, Quick question: Am I reading the code correctly, that even with per-device interrupt remap tables, that GSIs are accounted to the intremap table of the corresponding IOAPIC, presumably because the IOMMU sees interrupts generated as GSIs as coming from the IOAPIC? In that case, then we need all devices sharing the same IOAPIC must not have any vector collisions. Is that correct? -George

... rather than __assign_irq_vector(), to ensure desc->affinity gets initialized properly. This at once eliminates the need to forward-declare the latter function. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> --- a/xen/arch/x86/irq.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/irq.c @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ #include <public/physdev.h> static void parse_irq_vector_map_param(char *s); -static int

This caused particularly poor performance when booting a server in uniprocessor mode for debugging reasons, and had 4 dom0 vcpus competing for 1pcpus worth of time. -- Andrew Cooper - Dom0 Kernel Engineer, Citrix XenServer T: +44 (0)1223 225 900, http://www.citrix.com _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

I have just starting auditing the NMI path and found that the oprofile code calls into a fair amount of common code. So far, down the first leg of the call graph, I have found several ASSERT()s, a BUG() and many {rd,wr}msr()s. Given that these are common code, and sensible in their places, removing them for the sake of being on the NMI path seems silly. As an alternative, I suggest that we make

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> -- 1.7.10.4

Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> CC: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org> CC: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> CC: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org> CC: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> CC: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> --- misc/coverity_model.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+)