RE: [Xen-devel] Re: xl create stop at "Parsing config file xl.config"

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Zhang, Yang Z wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefano 
> > Stabellini
> > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 10:37 PM
> > To: Zhang, Yang Z
> > Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Stabellini; Stefano
> > Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: xl create stop at "Parsing config file xl.config"
> > 
> > On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, Zhang, Yang Z wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > I pull the latest source(22241) and try to boot guest with xl. But it 
> > > fail to
> > create guest.
> > > When I type xl create xl.config, it never returns and stop at "Parsing 
> > > config file
> > xl.config ".
> > > And it works with change set 22155.
> > >
> > > Attachment is my config file.
> > 
> > You have unicode characters in your config file, use "cat -vet" to see
> > them.
> Hi Stefano, I have check again. There has no problem with my config file.     
> After investigation, I found this issue was introduced by 22204. The function 
> freemem never returned when creating guest. It called 
> libxl_get_free_memory()->libxl_get_free_memory_slack() to read the value of 
> /local/domain/0/memory/freemem-slack from xenstore. But with xenstore-ls, I 
> found there doesn't have entry named  freemem-slack in /local/domain/0. And 
> the function will do an infinite loop try to get freemem-slack. That why the 
> "xl create xl.config" never returned. 
 
This is the same problem that Christoph Egger reported, could you please
give a look at the thread "xl create: endless loop"?

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