Re: [Xen-users] Booting dom0 on OMAP5432 board

[Chen Baozi <baozich@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

On May 15, 2014, at 23:33, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 11:10 -0400, John Paul Walters wrote:
>>> 
>>> This is the point where you would normally start to see dom0 output.
>>> 
>>> Have you enabled the XEN HVC driver in your kernel and passed
>>> console=hvc0 to the kernel?
>>> 
>>> If you have then you could trying pressing CTRL-A three times to enable
>>> Xen debug keys, then try various keys to see if you can see if/where
>>> dom0 has crashed ('h' lists them, 'q' is a good one, there is also one
>>> to dump the dom0 state).
>>> 
>>> After that I think it would be a case of adding calls to xen_raw_printk
>>> in the kernel and building a hypervisor with debuging enabled to get
>>> some kernel output -- which will hopefully show where things go wrong.
>>> 
>>> Ian.
>>> 
>>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestions.
>> 
>> It looks like the HVC driver is enabled, and I've included the output
>> of both "q" and "0" below as well as my u-boot version and parameters.
>> It might be helpful if someone could chime in with the versions (Xen
>> and kernel) that have been shown to boot successfully.  I bring this
>> up because the FTD patch didn't apply cleanly against any of the
>> kernels that I tried, so I ended up manually applying the patch.

I’ve used the latest xen and linux git tree when writing the wiki.

Here is a hack to make dom0 write to the hvc console directly (can’t
remember why I didn’t put it on wiki...). Could you please test the patch
I attached and see whether it works for you?

Cheers,

Baozi

---

commit ee04c996a8da3ef62103bf44a99eb516abaee230
Author: Chen Baozi <baozich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Mon Apr 28 16:49:50 2014 +0800

    xen/arm: hack to support earlyprintk for dom0

diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
index 2dc2831..931c72a 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_xen.c
@@ -630,7 +630,6 @@ void xen_raw_console_write(const char *str)
        ssize_t len = strlen(str);
        int rc = 0;

-       if (xen_domain()) {
                rc = dom0_write_console(0, str, len);
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86
                if (rc == -ENOSYS && xen_hvm_domain())
@@ -642,7 +641,6 @@ outb_print:
                for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
                        outb(str[i], 0xe9);
 #endif
-       }
 }

 void xen_raw_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
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