Re: [Xen-devel] What is the current state of Dom0 kernel support? / crash

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:55:11PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 07/22/09 12:35, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:14:37PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >   
> >> On 07/21/09 06:03, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I just tried the latest 32b PAE rebase/master tree (2.6.31-rc3).
> >>>
> >>> http://pasik.reaktio.net/xen/pv_ops-dom0-debug/pv_ops-dom0-log-10-rebase-master-with-highpte.txt
> >>>
> >>> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...
> >>> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
> >>> IP: [<c058cdcb>] xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0xcc/0x13f
> >>> *pdpt = 000000003d275001 
> >>> Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
> >>> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP 
> >>> last sysfs file: 
> >>> Modules linked in:
> >>>
> >>> Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.31-rc3 #20) P8SC8
> >>> EIP: 0061:[<c058cdcb>] EFLAGS: 00010046 CPU: 0
> >>> EIP is at xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0xcc/0x13f
> >>> EAX: 00000000 EBX: ffffffff ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000
> >>> ESI: 00000000 EDI: c08ec558 EBP: c087eedc ESP: c087eea0
> >>>  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: e021
> >>> Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c087e000 task=c083b1a0 task.ti=c087e000)
> >>> Stack:
> >>>  00001a6e 00000220 00000200 00000000 00000000 00000000 e3201014 c08ec558
> >>> <0> c087eee4 f5681000 e3201010 00000000 00000000 c09017f8 f54ff000 
> >>> c087ef20
> >>> <0> c0409927 00000000 c09017f8 f54ff000 c09017f8 f54ff000 c087ef20 
> >>> c0843f70
> >>> Call Trace:
> >>>  [<c0409927>] ? xen_do_upcall+0x7/0xc
> >>>  [<c0404581>] ? xen_pte_clear+0x9/0x12
> >>>  [<c0427a94>] ? set_pte_vaddr+0xb4/0xc4
> >>>  [<c0426c8c>] ? __native_set_fixmap+0x25/0x30
> >>>  [<c040471a>] ? xen_set_fixmap+0xc7/0xcc
> >>>  [<c0897d86>] ? mem_init+0x24a/0x298
> >>>  [<c088367e>] ? start_kernel+0x14b/0x2cd
> >>>  [<c088336f>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x18e
> >>>  [<c0883082>] ? i386_start_kernel+0x71/0x79
> >>>  [<c0886188>] ? xen_start_kernel+0x52a/0x533
> >>> Code: d0 89 45 cc 89 55 c8 eb 16 0f bc c8 03 4d d4 8b 04 8a 83 f8 ff 74 f8
> >>> 8b 55 e4 e8 36 de e7 ff 8b 55 f0 8b 45 d0 03 
> >>> 05 1c 0c 97 c0 <8b> 0c 10 8b 55 e8 8b 45 cc 23 0c 82 8b 45 c8 8b 04 82 8b 
> >>> 15
> >>> 18 
> >>> EIP: [<c058cdcb>] xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0xcc/0x13f SS:ESP e021:c087eea0
> >>> CR2: 0000000000000000
> >>> ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---
> >>> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Haven't seen that one before.  
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Ok. I've seen many people report crashes during startup with rebase/master
> > on 32b PAE. I assume they're seeing this same issue.
> >   
> 
> Unfortunately its a bit awkward for me to test 32-bit regularly, so I
> rely on other reports.  IanC did send me a success report from the -rc1
> kernel, but its quite likely something changed since then.  It shouldn't
> be too hard to work out once we can pinpoint the crash site.
> 

I think I saw the same crash also on 2.6.31-rc1 .. 

-- Pasi

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