From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: Re: [patch 1/1] ext4-fix-dirty-extent-when-origin-leaf-extent-reac.patch Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:47:50 -0400 Message-ID: <20110928124750.GA6072@phenom.oracle.com> References: <20110906145347.GA4133@dumpdata.com> <4E666C86.5090707@goop.org> <20110926142808.GG4102@phenom.oracle.com> <20110927193523.GB3309@thunk.org> <4E825F2A.6060506@daevel.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E825F2A.6060506@daevel.fr> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: "Olivier B." Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 01:41:30AM +0200, Olivier B. wrote: > On 27/09/2011 21:35, Ted Ts'o wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:28:08AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >>> > >>> Attached is the fix, verified in our env. > >> > >>So.. you are asking for this upstream git commit to be back-ported > >>to 2.6.32, right? > > > >I'm curious --- is there a good reason why Xen users are using an > >upstream 2.6.32 kernel? If they are using a distro kernel, fine, but > >then the distro kernel should be providing the support. But at this > >point, 2.6.32 is so positively *ancient* that, I'm personally not > >interesting in providing free, unpaid distro support for users who > >aren't willing to either (a) pay $$$ and get a supported distro > >kernel, or (b) use a much more modern kernel. At this point, Guest > >and Host Xen support is available in 3.0 kernels, so there's really no > >excuse, right? > > > > - Ted > > > > In my case, for Dom0 I use the 2.6.32 kernel from my distrib, because it's stable. > I have stability problems with the kernel 3.0 on Dom0, and as I haven't physical access neither kvm or serial port, I don't know what to report... It just hang randomly, without any line in logs. No physical access? No IPMI? No SOL? > > Does the Xen support on 3.0 kernels should be considered stable ? Yes - it should be considered stable (3.0.4 at least, with one particular patch that is going in 3.0.5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/2/114). Please help me find whatever is causing your crash.