Recent MFC to 7 causes crash on VMware ESXi

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 08 February 2010 11:06:00 am Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:32:37AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Monday 08 February 2010 9:56:36 am Kostik Belousov wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:49:00AM -0500, 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:
> > > > 
> > > > 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;
> > > 
> > > It might be better to "or" old condition, i.e. Intel without SS, and
> > > new one, vm_guest != 0, instead of replacing the old ?
> > 
> > I thought the old condition only happened under VMware?
> 
> Reports I got where from XEN.

Ok.  Those would also be covered under the vm_guest test as it is non-zero for 
Xen, VMware, Parallels, etc.

-- 
John Baldwin