From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 18:52:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A738410656B4; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:52:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A188FC50; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 18:52:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1198146B1A; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:52:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 1E75A8A024; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:52:30 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:52:24 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.2-CBSD-20100120; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: <4B6B89E7.8030002@sdf.lonestar.org> <4B6DE364.8030509@sdf.lonestar.org> <201002080949.00877.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201002080949.00877.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002091352.24131.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:52:30 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Tom McLaughlin , kib@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:52:31 -0000 On Monday 08 February 2010 9:49:00 am John Baldwin wrote: > On Saturday 06 February 2010 4:47:16 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: > > John Baldwin wrote, On 02/05/2010 08:27 AM: > > > On Thursday 04 February 2010 10:00:55 pm Tom McLaughlin wrote: > > >> Hi all, a recent MFC to 7-STABLE has started to cause issues for my VMs > > >> on VMware ESXi 3.5u4. After loading the mpt driver for the LSI disk > > >> controller the VM just shuts off. The workaround is to change the disk > > >> controller to the BusLogic type. Still, it used to work up until last > > >> week. The change was made around January 26th and based on the commits > > >> that day I'm guessing it's either r203047 or r203073 > > >> > > >> I have the same issue with both amd64 and i386 VMs. This affects HEAD > > >> and 8-STABLE as well and first affected HEAD over the summer. (I just > > >> worked around it and went about my business at the time. :-/) I've > > >> attached a dmesg from a kernel before the problem and one from after it > > >> started. > > > > > > What if you set 'hw.clfush_disable=1' from the loader? > > > > > > > Yes, that corrected it on all my VMs. I've talked to people on ESXi 4 > > and they do not see the problem. I have yet to try 3.5u5 to see if this > > is a non-issue. 3.5 will be supported for awhile longer from VMware. > > I'm going to try upgrading the box during the week. > > I believe folks had to do this on HEAD/8.x as well. Perhaps we can > automatically disable clflush if we are executing under VMware or Xen: Tom, were you able to verify that this patch fixes the problem for you without requiring you to set the hw.clflush_disable tunable? > Index: amd64/amd64/initcpu.c > =================================================================== > --- amd64/amd64/initcpu.c (revision 203430) > +++ amd64/amd64/initcpu.c (working copy) > @@ -177,17 +177,16 @@ > if ((cpu_feature & CPUID_CLFSH) != 0) > cpu_clflush_line_size = ((cpu_procinfo >> 8) & 0xff) * 8; > /* > - * XXXKIB: (temporary) hack to work around traps generated when > - * CLFLUSHing APIC registers window. > + * XXXKIB: (temporary) hack to work around traps generated > + * when CLFLUSHing APIC registers window under virtualization > + * environments. > */ > TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("hw.clflush_disable", &hw_clflush_disable); > - if (cpu_vendor_id == CPU_VENDOR_INTEL && !(cpu_feature & CPUID_SS) && > - hw_clflush_disable == -1) > + if (vm_guest != 0 /* VM_GUEST_NO */ && hw_clflush_disable == -1) > cpu_feature &= ~CPUID_CLFSH; > /* > * Allow to disable CLFLUSH feature manually by > - * hw.clflush_disable tunable. This may help Xen guest on some AMD > - * CPUs. > + * hw.clflush_disable tunable. > */ > if (hw_clflush_disable == 1) > cpu_feature &= ~CPUID_CLFSH; > Index: i386/i386/initcpu.c > =================================================================== > --- i386/i386/initcpu.c (revision 203430) > +++ i386/i386/initcpu.c (working copy) > @@ -724,17 +724,16 @@ > if ((cpu_feature & CPUID_CLFSH) != 0) > cpu_clflush_line_size = ((cpu_procinfo >> 8) & 0xff) * 8; > /* > - * XXXKIB: (temporary) hack to work around traps generated when > - * CLFLUSHing APIC registers window. > + * XXXKIB: (temporary) hack to work around traps generated > + * when CLFLUSHing APIC registers window under virtualization > + * environments. > */ > TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("hw.clflush_disable", &hw_clflush_disable); > - if (cpu_vendor_id == CPU_VENDOR_INTEL && !(cpu_feature & CPUID_SS) && > - hw_clflush_disable == -1) > + if (vm_guest != 0 /* VM_GUEST_NO */ && hw_clflush_disable == -1) > cpu_feature &= ~CPUID_CLFSH; > /* > * Allow to disable CLFLUSH feature manually by > - * hw.clflush_disable tunable. This may help Xen guest on some AMD > - * CPUs. > + * hw.clflush_disable tunable. > */ > if (hw_clflush_disable == 1) > cpu_feature &= ~CPUID_CLFSH; > > -- > John Baldwin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- John Baldwin