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Re: annual howto rampage



At Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:45:49 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.ca@localhost> wrote:
Subject: Re: annual howto rampage
>
> At Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:46:01 -0400, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
> Subject: annual howto rampage
> >
> >   - Are there any problems with 4.18 (other than timekeeping)?
>
> I've seen the odd reboot (two, exactly, one on each machine) from the
> Xen kernel watchdog firing for no apparent reason.
>
> Well I guess the reason is the NetBSD dom0 kernel locked up hard enough
> that it didn't tickle Xen any more, but there was no evidence on the
> console:
>
> [Fri Jul 12 06:57:25 2024][ 660210.6923526] xen_rtc_set: Setting to 1720792646.009459000 s at systime 660180665194637 ns (nanouptime: 660210692352600 ns, diff(st-nt): -30.27157963 s)
> [Fri Jul 12 07:06:16 2024][ 660739.8322481] xen_rtc_set: Setting to 1720793175.149355000 s at systime 660710772767673 ns (nanouptime: 660739832824235 ns, diff(st-nt): -29.60056562 s)
> [Fri Jul 12 07:14:41 2024](XEN) [2024-07-12 14:14:39.928] Watchdog timer fired for domain 0
> [Fri Jul 12 07:14:41 2024](XEN) [2024-07-12 14:14:39.928] Hardware Dom0 shutdown: watchdog rebooting machine
>
> The first column of timestamps is from conserver.  There would have been
> another of those xen_rtc_set messages at about 07:15:05 I think (another
> ~530 seconds) so no clue there....  (and /var/log/kern was entirely lost
> in the crash it seems)

BTW, this is just evidence of the timekeeping regression -- the evidence
was indeed right there in the console output in the two xen_rtc_set
lines:  the diff value normally never drops in magnitude.

I.e. time was suddenly sluing so quickly that xwatchdogd couldn't work.

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					Greg A. Woods <gwoods%acm.org@localhost>

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