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RHEL6.2 HVM guest fails to boot up when there are more than 15 physical lvs (phy:/dev/VolGroup/$lvname) or blktap (tap:aio:) xvdx disks and one ioemu vif (rtl8139 or e1000) attached. It hang while booting at the step of "set up logical volume management". It may print call trace after a while. Guest can boot up successfully when there is no ioemu vif attached or only netfront vif attached. Call trace info: Setting up Logical Volume Management: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 63s! [swapper:0] Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c0a06000 task=c0a2e560 task.ti=c0a06000) Stack: Call Trace: Code: c0 7c e3 89 d8 5b 5e 5f c3 90 8d 74 26 00 31 c0 5b 5e 5f c3 66 90 55 57 56 53 89 d3 83 ec 18 89 44 24 0c f6 42 04 20 75 06 fb 90 <8d> 74 26 00 31 ed 31 ff eb 0f 90 83 fe 02 74 63 8b 5b 10 09 f7 BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [swapper:0] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): host: 2.6.18-308.el5xen guest: 2.6.32-220.el5xen xen: xen-3.0.3-135.el5 How reproducible: hang 100% call trace 40% Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a 6.2 hvm guest with more than 15 phy or blktap xvdx disks and the ioemu nic. Details in the cfgfile.txt in the file attached. 2.Follow the booting process via vnc or 'xm create -c guest.cfg'. Actual results: At step 2, the guest hangs when set up logical volume management. Expected results: The guest boot up successfully or the appropriate error message is dispalyed in the host. Additional info: 1. Test it on 2.6.18-308.el5(5.8-20120202.0) with xen-135. The problem occurs in both i386 and x86_64 6.2 hvm guest (2.6.32-220.el6). 2. The same problem occurs on 274(kernel)+132(xen) host. 3. It works well for the 5.8 guest.
Created attachment 563836 [details] config file info
Created attachment 563838 [details] boot log
Created attachment 563843 [details] boot log
Too late for 6.3, assuming it's not a regression. Setting flag for 6.4.
If we boot with ignore_loglevel, then it is pretty strait-forward: --- blkfront: xvdd: barriers disabled alloc irq_desc for 31 on node 0 alloc kstat_irqs on node 0 xvdd: alloc irq_desc for 32 on node 0 alloc kstat_irqs on node 0 alloc irq_desc for 33 on node 0 alloc kstat_irqs on node 0 ... 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004) 8139cp 0000:00:04.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 32 (level, low) -> IRQ 32 eth0: RTL-8139C+ at 0xffffc90000d16000, 06:16:36:b6:e3:c8, IRQ 32 --- IRQ 32 collision. Applying patches from bug 756307 to 6.2GA kernel fixes issue, tested locally. To test one should use "xen_emul_unplug=ide-disks" kernel option since patches disable pv drivers if "xen_emul_unplug=never". Fixed in RHEL6.3 Beta. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 756307 ***