RE: [Xen-devel] Re: SMP dom0 with 8 cpus of i386

["Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble@xxxxxxxxx>]

Keir,
   With your patch on top of
6461:936be0ae823fd3a94ea06d92fdacad65b85d6014 I am still seeing same SMP
dom0 boot issue in 8 way SMP box. 
   I am able to reproduce it consistently, I am using the attached
config for dom0 kernel. What config are you using?

Thanks & Regards,
Nitin
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Sr Software Engineer
Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corp

-----Original Message-----
From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 2:17 AM
To: Keir Fraser
Cc: Kamble, Nitin A; xen-devel
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: SMP dom0 with 8 cpus of i386

> One possibility is that it's due to my fiddling with the domain 0  
> memory map (I now free pseudophys range 0-1MB to the linux memoy  
> allocator, which we didn''t previously do). This might mean that we're

> now allocating memory that gets scribbled on....
> 
> It might be worth explicitly unmapping the low pseudophys 1MB, not
free  
> it to the memory allocator, and then see if you can boot dom0. Then we

> can see if we have any code paths that go straight at low memory,
which  
> is a bug on xenlinux.

I wasn't able to repro these SMP dom0 problems myself. I tried
unmapping the low 1MB of pseudophys memory, and got a benign crash in
pci_find_bios() (now fixed).

It may be that you have some driver that is trying to tamper with 'ISA
space'. It's worth trying to apply the attached patch and see if you
can still boot SMP dom0 without crashing. If anyone else is having
similar problems then it would be great if they can try this patch
too (it's only good for 32-bit though -- no effect on x86_64).

 -- Keir

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