Re: [Xen-devel] xen.git branch reorg / crash with 2.6.30-rc3 pv_ops dom0

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:35:19AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:25:24AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >  
> >>>There was some unification work in this area around the
> >>>beginning of March although I'm pretty such I've had it work much more
> >>>recently. (I guess it might not have been merged into a visible branch
> >>>until more recently, it's a bit hard to tell with git but I don't think
> >>>that's what happened).
> >>>      
> >>Yeah, I think it has been working properly for some since then, though I 
> >>think Pasi has been reporting problems since 32-bit dom0 first booted.
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >Yep, I've had problems from the beginning.. 
> >
> >dom0/hackery was working pretty OK for me before it was removed.. 
> >I could run and install new PV guests etc.
> >  
> 
> Sorry, perhaps I was too hasty in removing the branches.  Though you 
> still have references in your own git tree?
> 
> You still had problems with HIGHPTE in hackery?  My suspicion is that 
> we're seeing the same bug manifesting in a much more obvious way, since 
> I'm seeing somewhat similar symptoms, even without HIGHPTE.
> 

Actually I didn't try with CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y for some time, since I didn't see 
any notes about it being fixed/changed..

> >>I also realized that my Xen doesn't have debug=y set, so I'm probably 
> >>missing some information.
> >>
> >>    
> >
> >Hmm, good point. I don't have debug=y either.. 
> >  
> 
> That would be useful.  It would be interesting to see if Xen complains 
> about any stray pte writes.
> 

And here we go:
http://pasik.reaktio.net/xen/pv_ops-dom0-debug/pv_ops-dom0-bootlog-28-xen331-linux-2.6.30-rc3-next-crash-no-highpte.txt

(XEN) d0:v0: unhandled page fault (ec=0003)
(XEN) Pagetable walk from c1268000:
(XEN)  L3[0x003] = 000000003c8ee001 000008ee
(XEN)  L2[0x009] = 000000003d276067 00001276 
(XEN)  L1[0x068] = 000000003d268061 00001268
(XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S (ff1a5c72)
(XEN) Domain 0 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0:
(XEN) ----[ Xen-3.3.1-12.0customdebug1.fc11  x86_32p  debug=y  Not tainted ]----
(XEN) CPU:    0
(XEN) EIP:    e019:[<c0888d87>]

[root@dom0test linux-2.6-xen]# gdb vmlinux
(gdb) x/i 0xc0888d87
0xc0888d87 <__constant_c_memset+21>:    rep stos %eax,%es:(%edi)
(gdb) 

-- Pasi

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