Re: port-xen/53965: XEN DomU fails to poweroff in new HEAD kernels

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2019 at 02:20:00PM +0000, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost wrote:
> >Description:
> 	Sometime in the recent past, my XEN DomU kernels lost the
> 	ability to power off the (virtual) machine (and cause the
> 	XEN hypervisor to let go.)
> 
> 	It was working with 8.99.32 (of some vintage, the last kernel
> 	update I did was probably a couple of weeks ago) and failed
> 	with the first update to a 8.99.34 kernel I attempted (though
> 	the first time I just assumed I left the "-p" off the shutdown
> 	command by accident, and didn't think any more of it.)
> 
> 	Note I am running a very old (by current standards) Xen kernel
> 	and Dom0 system, however they are (and have been) working well,
> 	and as (ignoring my uses for testing up to date current kernels,
> 	and particularly, shells) this is a production system I'm in no
> 	great hurry to update it.
> 
> 	pkg_info on the Dom0 tells me:
> 
> 	onyx$ pkg_info | grep xen
> 	xentools42-4.2.5nb15 Userland Tools for Xen 4.2.x
> 	xenkernel42-4.2.2   Xen 4.2.x Kernel
> 
> 	(with some other noise that just happened to match.)

I'm not seeing this with the Daily ATF runs:
http://www-soc.lip6.fr/~bouyer/NetBSD-tests/xen/HEAD/
but the server is running Xen 4.11

I wonder if it could be related to the recent Xen API version bump in our
source tree

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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