Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-19 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 19/04/2015 18:50, Brad Campbell wrote: > And I can confidently state that over the years I've seen this happen a > number of times, but in each case I was using qemu with an SDL console > as a user-interactive VM, and a moving the mouse would restore network > connectivity. It was obviously se

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-19 Thread Brad Campbell
On 19/04/15 23:48, Nadav Amit wrote: Brad Campbell wrote: On 13/04/15 22:02, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 13/04/2015 14:45, Brad Campbell wrote: G'day Paolo, Yes, on AMD and I've tried hard to reproduce it on Intel and been unable to thus far. Now you mention it may be AMD specific, I have a s

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-19 Thread Nadav Amit
Brad Campbell wrote: > > On 13/04/15 22:02, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 13/04/2015 14:45, Brad Campbell wrote: >>> G'day Paolo, >>> >>> Yes, on AMD and I've tried hard to reproduce it on Intel and been unable >>> to thus far. >>> >>> Now you mention it may be AMD specific, I have a spare mother

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-19 Thread Brad Campbell
On 13/04/15 22:02, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 13/04/2015 14:45, Brad Campbell wrote: G'day Paolo, Yes, on AMD and I've tried hard to reproduce it on Intel and been unable to thus far. Now you mention it may be AMD specific, I have a spare motherboard and processor sitting in a drawer. I'll bolt

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-13 Thread Brad Campbell
On 13/04/15 22:02, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Actually, if you have time to change your course of action, please revert the one that Nadav pointed out (f210f7572bed, KVM: x86: Fix lost interrupt on irr_pending race) or cherry-pick it on top of 3.17. Ok, I've done just that. Started on a 3.17 vani

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-13 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 13/04/2015 15:34, Nadav Amit wrote: > Paolo, > > I hope I am not misleading or interrupting, and I am obviously very biased — > but couldn’t it be related to the issue that patch f210f7572bed ("KVM: x86: > Fix lost interrupt on irr_pending race”) deals with? > > I got this issue first when I

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-13 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 13/04/2015 14:45, Brad Campbell wrote: > G'day Paolo, > > Yes, on AMD and I've tried hard to reproduce it on Intel and been unable > to thus far. > > Now you mention it may be AMD specific, I have a spare motherboard and > processor sitting in a drawer. I'll bolt it together tomorrow and see

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-13 Thread Nadav Amit
Paolo, I hope I am not misleading or interrupting, and I am obviously very biased — but couldn’t it be related to the issue that patch f210f7572bed ("KVM: x86: Fix lost interrupt on irr_pending race”) deals with? I got this issue first when I upgraded to 3.17 in my testing environment, since appa

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-13 Thread Radim Krčmář
2015-04-13 14:38+0200, Paolo Bonzini: > If so, the most likely culprit is this: > > commit 6addfc42992be4b073c39137ecfdf4b2aa2d487f > Author: Paolo Bonzini > Date: Thu Mar 27 11:29:28 2014 +0100 > > KVM: x86: avoid useless set of KVM_REQ_EVENT after emulation | [...] > > I would first try

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-13 Thread Brad Campbell
On 13/04/15 20:38, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 13/04/2015 06:07, Brad Campbell wrote: On 31/03/15 05:11, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 22/03/2015 16:31, Brad Campbell wrote: No help I'm afraid, but at least I can conclusively say that 3.16 is good, and 3.17 is bad. Can you try more specifically aroun

RE: XP machine freeze

2015-04-13 Thread Saso Slavicic
> From: Paolo Bonzini > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 2:39 PM > Subject: Re: XP machine freeze > > ... > Also: > > 1) Brad, I see you are on AMD. Have you ever reproduced it on Intel? > Saso, are you on AMD as well? No, this is an Intel machine: Intel(R) Xeon(

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-13 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 13/04/2015 06:07, Brad Campbell wrote: > > On 31/03/15 05:11, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> >> On 22/03/2015 16:31, Brad Campbell wrote: >>> >>> No help I'm afraid, but at least I can conclusively say that 3.16 is >>> good, and 3.17 is bad. >> Can you try more specifically around the first KVM pull

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-12 Thread Brad Campbell
On 31/03/15 05:11, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 22/03/2015 16:31, Brad Campbell wrote: No help I'm afraid, but at least I can conclusively say that 3.16 is good, and 3.17 is bad. Can you try more specifically around the first KVM pull request? That would be between c9b88e958182 (presumed good) a

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-04-04 Thread Brad Campbell
On 31/03/15 19:23, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 31/03/2015 13:16, Brad Campbell wrote: If you look at the bisect point I'm currently at it's a mix of i2c and arm. The only vaguely relevant (as far as I can see) commit is the addition of the getrandom() syscall, so my bisect is looking dodgy at best

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-03-31 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 31/03/2015 13:16, Brad Campbell wrote: > > If you look at the bisect point I'm currently at it's a mix of i2c and > arm. The only vaguely relevant (as far as I can see) commit is the > addition of the getrandom() syscall, so my bisect is looking dodgy at > best. If I can come up with a better

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-03-31 Thread Brad Campbell
On 31/03/15 16:56, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 31/03/2015 09:18, Brad Campbell wrote: Better than that, it's recording h264 rtsp streams from 3 CCTV cameras, so there is a constant network load of about 1.5-2MB/s (bytes not bits). Come to think of it, out of the 3 XP VM's I have that are an identi

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-03-31 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 31/03/2015 09:18, Brad Campbell wrote: > Better than that, it's recording h264 rtsp streams from 3 CCTV cameras, > so there is a constant network load of about 1.5-2MB/s (bytes not bits). > Come to think of it, out of the 3 XP VM's I have that are an identical > config and actually come from t

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-03-31 Thread Brad Campbell
On 31/03/15 14:29, Saso Slavicic wrote: From: Brad Campbell Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 2:28 AM If someone could give me some hard tests to do along the lines of what Saso is up to I could probably get that done faster. With the right bad kernel I can reproduce this lockup in a matter of hou

RE: XP machine freeze

2015-03-30 Thread Saso Slavicic
> From: Brad Campbell > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 2:28 AM > > > If someone could give me some hard tests to do along the lines of what > Saso is up to I could probably get that done faster. With the right > bad kernel I can reproduce this lockup in a matter of hours. Hi, My machine usually (b

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-03-30 Thread Brad Campbell
On 31/03/15 05:11, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 22/03/2015 16:31, Brad Campbell wrote: No help I'm afraid, but at least I can conclusively say that 3.16 is good, and 3.17 is bad. Can you try more specifically around the first KVM pull request? That would be between c9b88e958182 (presumed good)

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-03-30 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 22/03/2015 16:31, Brad Campbell wrote: > > > No help I'm afraid, but at least I can conclusively say that 3.16 is > good, and 3.17 is bad. Can you try more specifically around the first KVM pull request? That would be between c9b88e958182 (presumed good) and 8533ce727188 (presumed bad)? T

RE: XP machine freeze

2015-03-30 Thread Saso Slavicic
> From: Marcelo Tosatti [mailto:mtosa...@redhat.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:52 AM > > Generate a Windows dump? > > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/254649 > > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/972110 > Step 7: Generate a complete crash dump file or a kernel crash dump fi

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-03-22 Thread Brad Campbell
On 16/03/15 23:10, Saso Slavicic wrote: Hi, I'm fairly experienced with KVM (Centos 5/6), running about a dozen servers with 20-30 different (Linux & MS platform) systems. I have one Windows XP machine that acts very strangely - it freezes. I get ping timeout for the VM from my monitoring and th

Re: XP machine freeze

2015-03-18 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 04:10:40PM +0100, Saso Slavicic wrote: > Hi, > > I'm fairly experienced with KVM (Centos 5/6), running about a dozen servers > with 20-30 different (Linux & MS platform) systems. > I have one Windows XP machine that acts very strangely - it freezes. I get > ping timeout for

XP machine freeze

2015-03-16 Thread Saso Slavicic
Hi, I'm fairly experienced with KVM (Centos 5/6), running about a dozen servers with 20-30 different (Linux & MS platform) systems. I have one Windows XP machine that acts very strangely - it freezes. I get ping timeout for the VM from my monitoring and the machine spins 2 or 3 cores using all the