Re: Unstableness in grant table block drivers

[Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>]

* Christopher Clark <christopher.w.clark@gmail.com> [2005-04-18 11:37]:
> > > Ryan: is this an SMP guest?
> > 
> > Yes, that only shows up when trying to boot an SMP guest.
> 
> Does the crash only occur when trying to boot an SMP guest - ie. do UP
> guests start correctly?

No, all domU's, whether SMP or UP crash the same way.

> Ryan and Anthony: I've attached a patch that I'd like you to apply to
> your unstable tree -- it just printk's almost everything so I can get
> an idea of the code path you're running.
> Alternatively, the three .c files modified by the patch are also
> attached - they're taken from 2005-04-14 unstable and you should be
> able to just replace the files in your tree.
> 
> After changing your tree and rebuilding, please send the console logs
> from boot onwards for xen/dom0 and domU, in a uniprocessor
> configuration, both with and without using grant tables for block
> transport.

I'll try this out

> thanks

Sure.

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