I will test with xenlinux 2.6.18, as far as pv_ops dom0 does this work with any version of the hypervisor? The current system is running 3.2 which is pretty old so I just assumed pv_ops wouldn't be a possibility. -chris On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/08/2010 07:35 AM, chris wrote: >> >> I forwarding this to xen-devel because it appears to be a bug in dom0 >> kernel. >> >> I recently experienced a strange issue with software raid1+0 under Xen >> on a new machine. I was getting corruption in my guest volumes and >> tons of kernel messages such as: >> >> [305044.571962] raid0_make_request bug: can't convert block across >> chunks or bigger than 64k 14147455 4 >> >> The full thread is located at http://marc.info/?t=126672694700001&r=1&w=2 >> Detailed output at http://pastebin.com/f6a52db74 >> >> It appears after speaking with the linux-raid mailing list that this >> is due a bug which has been fixed but the fix is not included in the >> dom0 kernel. I'm not sure what sources kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 is >> based on, but since xenlinux is still at 2.6.18 I was assuming that >> this bug would still exist. >> > > There are a number of possible dom0 kernel in use. The xen.org 2.6.18-xen > tree is still maintained on a bugfix basis. Are you seeing the problem with > 2.6.18-xen? > > I don't know what 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 is, but I'm guessing from the name it > is a Debian kernel. I don't know what its provenance is, but it is not a > xen.org supported kernel; if a fix is needed you should file a bug against > your distro. > > Modern Xen kernels are based on 2.6.31.x and 2.6.32.x. See > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps and > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenDom0Kernels for more details. > > J > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
