Re: [Xen-API] [xs-devel] xen-ringwatch - NameError: global name 's' is not defined

[David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/07/13 13:23, David Scott wrote:
> On 22/07/13 12:56, rdartigues.ext@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Good day all,
>>
>> I'm using XCP release 1.6.10-61809c.
>> Suddenly today I got flooded by xen-ringwatch:
> 
> I've cc:d xs-devel, since I'm not sure which repository xen-ringwatch
> comes from. I don't think it's part of the xapi toolstack -- is it a
> storage component?

It's a workaround for guests which may lose interrupts, it will prod
things if the shared rings are not being processed.  It comes from the
Xen repository and I believe it is started by storage manager or xapi
(but I'm not sure).

It's not needed for most guests.  Most cases where it would fire
historically is because of a (now fixed) bug in the dom0 kernel
triggered by the use of irqbalanced.

>> --- /usr/sbin/xen-ringwatch    2013-07-22 13:52:19.000000000 +0200
>> +++ /usr/sbin/xen-ringwatch    2013-07-22 13:52:30.000000000 +0200
>> @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@
>>               match = cls._pattern.search(line)
>>               if not match:
>>                   raise Exception, "Malformed %s input: %s" % \
>> -                    (cls.__name__, repr(s))
>> +                    (cls.__name__, repr(line))
>>
>>               i = iter(match.groups())
>>               for k in i:
>>
>> Now I can get an error message:
>> # xen-ringwatch check -T3 --kick
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "/usr/sbin/xen-ringwatch", line 593, in ?
>>      watches.update()
>>    File "/usr/sbin/xen-ringwatch", line 414, in update
>>      entry = RingWatch.new(ring)
>>    File "/usr/sbin/xen-ringwatch", line 357, in new
>>      state = ring.read()
>>    File "/usr/sbin/xen-ringwatch", line 136, in read
>>      state = RingState.from_sysfs(self.path())
>>    File "/usr/sbin/xen-ringwatch", line 223, in from_sysfs
>>      req = cls.Req.from_sysfs(_req, size=nr_ents)
>>    File "/usr/sbin/xen-ringwatch", line 240, in from_sysfs
>>      raise Exception, "Malformed %s input: %s" % \
>> Exception: Malformed Req input: 'req prod 2291415749 cons -2003551547
>> event 2291415750'

The cons value is being incorrectly printed as a signed integer.

It was a trivial kernel fix but you could try disabling xen-ringwatch as
a workaround for now.

David

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