Bug 710632

Summary: xen microcode WARN on save-restore
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Ken Reilly <kreilly>
Component: kernelAssignee: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.0CC: anton, dhoward, drjones, imammedo, jwest, leiwang, mjenner, pm-eus, qwan, xen-maint
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-71.33.1.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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If the microcode module was loaded, saving and restoring a Xen guest returned a warning message and a backtrace error. With this update, backtrace errors are no longer returned, and saving and restoring a Xen guest works as expected.
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Last Closed: 2011-08-02 16:54:17 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 671161    
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Description Ken Reilly 2011-06-03 21:17:03 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #671161 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.0 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 6 Qixiang Wan 2011-07-19 12:21:07 UTC
Verified with kernel-2.6.32-71.34.1.el6. 

There is no call trace message in guest (i386 and x86_64 RHEL6.0 PV DomUs) kernel log after save/restore with the fix applied.  
Also tried with {i386|x86_64} x {PV|HVM} DomUs (2 vcpus) , save/restore works well with the fix applied. 
The tests were ran against Intel platform as microcode module can't be loaded successfully on AMD platform (RHEL 6.0 GA kernel).

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-08-02 16:54:17 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1106.html

Comment 8 Martin Prpič 2011-08-18 14:41:17 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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    New Contents:
If the microcode module was loaded, saving and restoring a Xen guest
returned a warning message and a backtrace error. With this update,
backtrace errors are no longer returned, and saving and restoring a Xen
guest works as expected.