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Date:      Tue, 4 Dec 2012 09:01:15 +0100
From:      Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre <egoitz@sarenet.es>
To:        Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-xen@freebsd.org" <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: xenbusb_nop_confighook_cb timeout and cd issue
Message-ID:  <1EC8AB9E-C684-41F3-8467-A27E1165AE03@sarenet.es>
In-Reply-To: <1354595632.3045.7.camel@powernoodle>
References:  <FE6F607E-085B-45EA-B085-612647677B71@sarenet.es> <1354595632.3045.7.camel@powernoodle>

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Good morning,

For sure Sean, I have today a more or less busy day but as far as I get =
again some (even little :) ) more time=85 I'll tell here how the =
progress goes=85.

Best regards,

Egoitz Aurrekoetxea
Departamento de sistemas
egoitz@sarenet.es


El 04/12/2012, a las 05:33, Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> escribi=F3:=


> On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 19:04 +0100, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>=20
>> After doing some checks and debugs about this problem, I can conclude =
that : under Xen 4.1.3 on Debian Wheezy it works properly although in =
XCP1.6 if you remove the cd drive from the vm works too. I'm going to =
describe the two test environments have used for debugging this  :
>>=20
>> ENV 1.- XCP 1.6 XEN 4.1.3 + FREEBSD 9.1-RC3 :
>>=20
>> As you can see with an iso image mounted and without it, the boot =
process gets stuck there=85.. (I paste here both screenshot location).
>> 		=09
>> http://postfixquotareject.ramattack.net/PastedGraphic-8.tiff
>> http://postfixquotareject.ramattack.net/PastedGraphic-11.tiff         =
                           =20
>>=20
>> I have placed here two examples, with an empty (but existing) cd =
drive and with a iso mounted in the drive.=20
>>=20
>> BUT If I do a in the XCP shell :=20
>>=20
>> xe vm-cd-remove uuid=3D08aec342-9572-8690-5e58-91d1b1f0aab2 =
cd-name=3Dxs-tools.iso
>>=20
>> The drive is being removed from the vm and it boots normally.  This =
is the workaround I'm using for the moment.
>>=20
>> Another debugging check I have done too is to apply this patch =
(although it's just for testing purposes and for checking if cd drive =
works) to see how the drive behaves after booting but without stopping =
in that loop of the FreeBSD kernel source code.
>>=20
>> --- /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_autoconf.c-defecto	2012-10-10 =
13:51:27.000000000 +0200
>> +++ /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_autoconf.c	2012-10-10 =
18:21:51.000000000 +0200
>> @@ -133,16 +133,17 @@
>> 	/* Block boot processing until all hooks are disestablished. */
>> 	mtx_lock(&intr_config_hook_lock);
>> 	warned =3D 0;
>> -	while (!TAILQ_EMPTY(&intr_config_hook_list)) {
>> +	/* while (!TAILQ_EMPTY(&intr_config_hook_list)) { */
>> 		if (msleep(&intr_config_hook_list, =
&intr_config_hook_lock,
>> 		    0, "conifhk", WARNING_INTERVAL_SECS * hz) =3D=3D
>> 		    EWOULDBLOCK) {
>> 			mtx_unlock(&intr_config_hook_lock);
>> 			warned++;
>> 			=
run_interrupt_driven_config_hooks_warning(warned);
>> 			mtx_lock(&intr_config_hook_lock);
>> 		}
>> -	}
>> +	/* } */
>> 	mtx_unlock(&intr_config_hook_lock);
>> }
>>=20
>> After applying this patch, kernel boots under XCP 1.6Beta and cd can =
be mounted in the shell (should say I have not noticed about IRQ =
problems after this). It seems like FreeBSD domU is not able to continue =
the boot process  because it's not able to finish up some test related =
to THIS (the cd drive) device setup (IRQ assigning tests I assume =
concretely)  that should succeed before being able to continue the boot =
process.
>>=20
>> ENV 2.- Debian Wheezy (testing) XEN 4.1.3 + FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 :
>>=20
>> Here is the concrete environment and config :=20
>>=20
>> root@pruebas-xen-egoitz:~# uname -ar
>> Linux pruebas-xen-egoitz 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.32-1 x86_64 =
GNU/Linux
>>=20
>> root@pruebas-xen-egoitz:~# cat /etc/issue
>> Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l
>>=20
>> root@pruebas-xen-egoitz:~# dpkg -l | grep -i xen
>> ii  libxen-4.1                         4.1.3-4                   =
amd64        Public libs for Xen
>> ii  libxenstore3.0                     4.1.3-4                   =
amd64        Xenstore communications library for Xen
>> ri  linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64     2.6.32-46                 =
amd64        Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs, Xen dom0 support
>> rc  xen-hypervisor-4.0-amd64           4.0.1-5.4                 =
amd64        The Xen Hypervisor on AMD64
>> ii  xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64           4.1.3-4                   =
amd64        Xen Hypervisor on AMD64
>> ii  xen-linux-system-3.2.0-4-amd64     3.2.32-1                  =
amd64        Xen system with Linux 3.2 on 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
>> ii  xen-linux-system-amd64             3.2+46                    =
amd64        Xen system with Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
>> ii  xen-system-amd64                   4.1.3-4                   =
amd64        Xen System on AMD64 (meta-package)
>> ii  xen-tools                          4.3.1-1                   all  =
        Tools to manage Xen virtual servers
>> ii  xen-utils-4.1                      4.1.3-4                   =
amd64        XEN administrative tools
>> ii  xen-utils-common                   4.1.3-4                   all  =
        Xen administrative tools - common files
>> ii  xenstore-utils                     4.1.3-4                   =
amd64        Xenstore utilities for Xen
>>=20
>> root@pruebas-xen-egoitz:~# xm list
>> Name                                        ID   Mem VCPUs      State =
  Time(s)
>> Domain-0                                     0  6908     8     r----- =
  1526.2
>> freebsd90js.ramattack.net                   24   512     2     -b---- =
    59.9
>>=20
>> I normally create the life cycle with a xm new, later xm start=85=85. =
the config file is :=20
>>=20
>> root@pruebas-xen-egoitz:~# cat =
/etc/xen/freebsd90rjs.ramattack.net.cfg
>> kernel =3D '/usr/lib/xen-4.1/boot/hvmloader'
>> builder =3D 'hvm'
>> vcpus =3D 2
>> memory =3D 512
>> name =3D 'freebsd90js.ramattack.net'
>> vif =3D [ 'bridge=3Deth0, mac=3D00:13:3E:19:88:22, type=3Dioemu' ]
>> disk =3D [ 'file:/servidores/freebsd90r/freebsd90js.img,hda,w', =
'file:/imagenes-cd/FreeBSD-9.1-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso,hdc:cdrom,r' ]
>> boot =3D 'cd'
>> device_model =3D 'qemu-dm'
>> sdl =3D 0
>> vnc =3D 1
>> vncpasswd =3D 'agoodpassword'
>> serial =3D 'pty'
>>=20
>> And  after booting properly and from the own vm inside the Dom0 =
running Debian and Xen :=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> root@pruebas:/root # uname -ar
>> FreeBSD pruebas.sare.net 9.1-RC3 FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 #0: Fri Nov 30 =
12:14:50 CET 2012     root@pruebas.sare.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/XENHVM  =
amd64
>>=20
>> root@pruebas:/root # xen-detect=20
>> Running in HVM context on Xen v4.1.
>>=20
>> root@pruebas:/root # dmesg
>> Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project.
>> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, =
1994
>> 	The Regents of the University of California. All rights =
reserved.
>> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
>> FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 #0: Fri Nov 30 12:14:50 CET 2012
>>    root@pruebas.sare.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/XENHVM amd64
>> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L3426  @ 1.87GHz (1862.83-MHz =
K8-class CPU)
>>  Origin =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id =3D 0x106e5  Family =3D 6  Model =3D =
1e  Stepping =3D 5
>>  =
Features=3D0x1781fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE=
,MCA,CMOV,PAT,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
>>  =
Features2=3D0x81b82201<SSE3,SSSE3,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,TSCDLT,=
HV>
>>  AMD Features=3D0x28100800<SYSCALL,NX,RDTSCP,LM>
>>  AMD Features2=3D0x1<LAHF>
>> real memory  =3D 536870912 (512 MB)
>> avail memory =3D 492093440 (469 MB)
>> Event timer "LAPIC" quality 400
>> ACPI APIC Table: <Xen HVM>
>> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
>> FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s)
>> cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
>> cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  2
>> ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 1
>> MADT: Forcing active-low polarity and level trigger for SCI
>> ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-47 on motherboard
>> kbd1 at kbdmux0
>> acpi0: <Xen> on motherboard
>> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
>> acpi0: Sleep Button (fixed)
>> acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed
>> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>> cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>> attimer0: <AT timer> port 0x40-0x43 irq 0 on acpi0
>> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>> Event timer "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
>> atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0
>> Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
>> Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900
>> acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0xb008-0xb00b on =
acpi0
>> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
>> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
>> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
>> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>> atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 WDMA2 controller> port =
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xc200-0xc20f at device 1.1 on pci0
>> ata0: <ATA channel> at channel 0 on atapci0
>> ata1: <ATA channel> at channel 1 on atapci0
>> pci0: <bridge> at device 1.3 (no driver attached)
>> vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> mem =
0xf0000000-0xf1ffffff,0xf3000000-0xf3000fff at device 2.0 on pci0
>> xenpci0: <Xen Platform Device> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem =
0xf2000000-0xf2ffffff irq 28 at device 3.0 on pci0
>> xenstore0: <XenStore> on xenpci0
>> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
>> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
>> kbd0 at atkbd0
>> atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
>> psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4
>> fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on =
acpi0
>> fdc0: does not respond
>> device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6
>> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on =
acpi0
>> ppc0: <Parallel port> port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0
>> ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
>> ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
>> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
>> lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
>> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>> ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
>> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=3D0x300>
>> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on =
isa0
>> fdc0: No FDOUT register!
>> ctl: CAM Target Layer loaded
>> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
>> xenbusb_front0: <Xen Frontend Devices> on xenstore0
>> xn0: <Virtual Network Interface> at device/vif/0 on xenbusb_front0
>> xn0: Ethernet address: 00:13:3e:19:88:22
>> xenbusb_back0: <Xen Backend Devices> on xenstore0
>> xctrl0: <Xen Control Device> on xenstore0
>> xn0: backend features: feature-sg feature-gso-tcp4
>> xbd0: 40920MB <Virtual Block Device> at device/vbd/768 on =
xenbusb_front0
>> xbd0: attaching as ad0
>> xbd1: 685MB <Virtual Block Device> at device/vbd/5632 on =
xenbusb_front0
>> xbd1: attaching as ad2
>> GEOM: ad0s1: geometry does not match label (16h,63s !=3D 255h,63s).
>> cd0 at ata1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0
>> cd0: <QEMU QEMU DVD-ROM 0.10> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device=20
>> cd0: 16.700MB/s transfers (WDMA2, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 65534bytes)
>> cd0: cd present [350977 x 2048 byte records]
>> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a [rw]...
>> xn0: 2 link states coalesced
>>=20
>> A test showing how I'm able to mount an iso image : =20
>>=20
>> root@pruebas:/root # mount
>> /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, journaled soft-updates)
>> devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel)
>> /dev/ad2 on /puntomontajes (cd9660, local, read-only)
>>=20
>> root@pruebas:/root # ls -la /puntomontajes/
>> total 638
>> drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel    4096 Jan  1  1970 .
>> drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel    1024 Dec  3 11:42 ..
>> -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel    1011 Oct 30 02:48 .cshrc
>> -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel     253 Oct 30 02:48 .profile
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    4096 Oct 30 02:47 .rr_moved
>> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    6200 Oct 30 02:48 COPYRIGHT
>> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   13814 Oct 30 02:48 ERRATA.HTM
>> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    8442 Oct 30 02:48 ERRATA.TXT
>> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  201433 Oct 30 02:48 HARDWARE.HTM
>> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  122955 Oct 30 02:48 HARDWARE.TXT
>> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   20807 Oct 30 02:48 README.HTM
>> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   14764 Oct 30 02:48 README.TXT
>> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel  118904 Oct 30 02:48 RELNOTES.HTM
>> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel   61896 Oct 30 02:48 RELNOTES.TXT
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    6144 Oct 30 02:47 bin
>> drwxr-xr-x   7 root  wheel    6144 Oct 30 02:48 boot
>> dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    2048 Oct 30 02:47 dev
>> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    4143 Oct 30 02:48 docbook.css
>> drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel   12288 Oct 30 02:48 etc
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel    6144 Oct 30 02:48 lib
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel    2048 Oct 30 02:48 libexec
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    2048 Oct 30 02:47 media
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    2048 Oct 30 02:47 mnt
>> dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    2048 Oct 30 02:47 proc
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    2048 Oct 30 02:47 rescue
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    2048 Oct 30 02:48 root
>> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   16384 Oct 30 02:48 sbin
>> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel      11 Oct 30 02:47 sys -> usr/src/sys
>> drwxrwxrwt   2 root  wheel    2048 Oct 30 02:47 tmp
>> drwxr-xr-x  15 root  wheel    2048 Oct 30 02:48 usr
>> drwxr-xr-x  23 root  wheel    4096 Oct 30 02:47 var
>> root@pruebas:/root # fgrep -r -i aa /puntomontajes/*
>> =
/puntomontajes/HARDWARE.HTM:"http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Daa=
c&#38;sektion=3D4&#38;manpath=3DFreeBSD+9-current">
>> /puntomontajes/HARDWARE.HTM:<span class=3D"citerefentry"><span =
class=3D"refentrytitle">aac</span>(4)</span></a> driver
>> /puntomontajes/HARDWARE.HTM:<p>Adaptec AAC-364</p>
>> /puntomontajes/HARDWARE.HTM:<p>Newer ServeRAID controllers are =
supported by the aac(4) or mfi(4) driver.</p>
>> /puntomontajes/HARDWARE.HTM:<p>RAIDarray 230 controllers, aka the =
Ultra-SCSI DEC KZPAC-AA (1-ch, 4MB cache), KZPAC-CA
>> /puntomontajes/HARDWARE.HTM:<p>Texas Instruments TSB43AA22</p>
>> /puntomontajes/HARDWARE.HTM:<p>Texas Instruments TSB82AA2</p>
>> /puntomontajes/HARDWARE.TXT:   [i386,ia64,amd64] Controllers =
supported by the aac(4) driver
>> /puntomontajes/HARDWARE.TXT:     * Adaptec AAC-364
>> /puntomontajes/HARDWARE.TXT:   Newer ServeRAID controllers are sup
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> etc
>> etc=85
>>=20
>>=20
>> So, summarizing : =20
>>=20
>> Seems like under Debian with the same version of Xen works properly, =
so=85 I have taken a look at the patches applied to Xen sources for =
composing the Debian package and concretely one of them drew my =
attention :=20
>>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> If someone at Citrix or XEN development team is reading this could =
tell us something?. Could this give a clue for solving the problem?. I =
can further investigate too if no one knows about it=85 but I assume =
this should be much easier and faster to if could be checked by some of =
the Xen development staff.=20
>>=20
>> Let us know something please,
>> Very thankful,
>> Best regards.
>=20
>=20
> If you have the time, can you submit a PR for this issue?  I'll try =
and
> reproduce it in tomorrow after I get the xen4 hypervisor working =
again.
>=20
> Sean
>=20




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