Re: [Xen-devel] Error booting Xen

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 03:06 -0700, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 19.01.16 at 20:55, <write.harmandeep@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Â
> > $ 'addr2line -e xen-syms ffff82d0801c1cce' returns
> > 'xen/xen/arch/x86/xstate.c:387' which again points to
> > xsave. Also, adding 'xsave=0' makes it boot just fine.
> 
> Ah, I think I see the issue: We're zeroing the entire save area in
> the fixup code, which will make XRSTORS fault unconditionally.
> Shuai, would you please look into possible ways of fixing this?
> Just setting the compressed flag may not be enough, and falling
> back to plain XRSTOR doesn't seem to be an option either - I'm in
> particular worried that the current model of zeroing everything
> is bogus with the growing number of different components which
> get loaded here.
> 
> But of course another question then is why the XRSTORS faults
> in the first place. I guess we'll need a debugging patch to dump
> the full state to understand that.
> 
If someone can produce and send such patch, I'm sure Harmandeep will be
happy to give it a try on her hardware.

Thanks and Regards,
Dario
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