RE: [Xen-devel] potentially nasty oops on startup

[Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Ian Pratt wrote:

> > I'm getting the following oops on startup, and I'm not quite
> > sure why.  It looks nasty though, with an invalid page being
> > mapped into a process, and a strange looking EIP ...
> Ouch. Is this the unstable tree? Is it deterministic? How far through
> the boot process does it happen? Could you try rolling the tree back a
> couple of days and check it goes away.
It is the unstable tree, I'll try running an older kernel and
Xen to see if the bug goes away.

> Almost all the core Xen developers are currently in San Francisco
> attending OSDI, so I'm afraid bug fix response times might not be quite
> as good as usual.
Cool.  I hope you're having a great time at OSDI.
Don't worry about fixing this bug in a hurry, there's
enough time later...

--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan


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