On 08-09-2017 6:17, Kevin Stange wrote:
On 09/06/2017 05:21 PM, Kevin Stange wrote:
On 09/06/2017 08:40 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 09/05/2017 02:26 PM, Kevin Stange wrote:
On 09/04/2017 05:27 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 09/04/2017 03:59 PM, Kevin Stange wrote:
On 09/02/2017 08:11 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 09/01/2017 02:41 PM, Kevin Stange wrote:
On 08/31/2017 07:50 AM, PJ Welsh wrote:
A recently created and fully functional CentOS 7.3 VM fails to
boot
after applying CR updates:
<snip>
Server OS is CentOS 7.3 using Xen (no CR updates):
rpm -qa xen\*
xen-hypervisor-4.6.3-15.el7.x86_64
xen-4.6.3-15.el7.x86_64
xen-licenses-4.6.3-15.el7.x86_64
xen-libs-4.6.3-15.el7.x86_64
xen-runtime-4.6.3-15.el7.x86_64
uname -a
Linux tsxen2.xx.com <http://tsxen2.xx.com> 4.9.39-29.el7.x86_64
#1 SMP
Fri Jul 21 15:09:00 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Sadly, the other issue is that the grub menu will not display
for me to
select another kernel to see if it is just a kernel issue.
The dracut prompt does not show any /dev/disk folder either.
I'm seeing this as well. My host is 4.9.44-29 and Xen 4.4.4-26
from
testing repo, my guest is 3.10.0-693.1.1. Guest boots fine with
514.26.2. The kernel messages that appear to kick off the
failure for
me start with a page allocation failure. It eventually reaches
dracut
failures due to systemd/udev not setting up properly, but I
think the
root is this:
<snip>
Do any of you guys have access to RHEL to try the RHEL 7.4
Kernel?
I think I may. I haven't tried yet, but I'll see if I can get my
hands
on one and test it tomorrow when I'm back at the office tomorrow.
RH closed my bug as "WONTFIX" so far, saying Red Hat Quality
Engineering
Management declined the request. I started to look at the Red Hat
source browser to see the list of patches from 693 to 514, but
getting
the full list seems impossible because the change log only goes
back to
644 and there doesn't seem to be a way to obtain full builds of
unreleased kernels. Unless I'm mistaken.
I will also do some digging via RH support if I can.
I would think that RH would want AWS support for RHEL 7.4 and I
thought
AWS was run on Xen // Note: I could be wrong about that.
In any event, at the very least, we can make a kernel that boots PV
for
7.4 at some point.
AWS does run on Xen, but the modifications they make to Xen are not
known to me nor which version of Xen they use. They may also run
the
domains as HVM, which seems to mitigate the issue here.
I just verified this kernel issue exists on a RHEL 7.3 system image
under the same conditions, when it's updated to RHEL 7.4 and kernel
3.10.0-693.2.1.el7.x86_64.
One other option is to run the DomU's as PVHVM:
https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Linux_PV_on_HVM_drivers
That should be much better performance than HVM and may be a workable
solution for people who don't want to modify their VM kernel.
Here is more info on PVHVM:
https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/PV_on_HVM
================
Also heard from someone to try this Config file change to the base
kernel and rebuild:
CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=n
This suggestion was mirrored in the RH bugzilla as well, it worked,
but
the same issue does not exist in newer kernels which have the option
on.
I've posted updated findings in the CentOS bug, which includes a
patch
that I found which seems to fix the issue:
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13763#c30014
With many thanks to hughesjr and toracat, I was able to find a patch
that seems to resolve this issue and get it into CentOS Plus
3.10.0-693.2.1. I've asked Red Hat to apply it to some future kernel
update, but that is only a dream for now.
In the meantime, if anyone who has been experiencing the issue with PV
domains can try out the CentOS Plus kernel here and provide feedback,
I'd appreciate it!
https://buildlogs.centos.org/c7-plus/kernel-plus/20170907163005/3.10.0-693.2.1.el7.centos.plus.x86_64/
Loaded 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.centos.plus.x86_64 successfully on two CentOS
7.4 PV domUs which failed previously on
kernel-3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64, the 2 hypervisors tested are:
1. CentOS 6.9, kernel 4.9.13-22.el6.x86_64, Xen 4.6.3-8.el6
2. CentOS 7.3, kernel 4.9.31-27.el7.x86_64, Xen 4.9.31-27.el7.x86_64
The patch did the job, thanks.
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Adi Pircalabu
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