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From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH][SVM] fix spinlock panic
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:20:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906171620.49105.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> (raw)

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Hi!

Attached patch enables irq when initializing SVM so it's safe to take locks.
This fixes a panic like this:

(XEN) Xen BUG at spinlock.c:24
[...]
(XEN) Xen call trace:
(XEN)    [<ffff828c8011b839>] check_lock+0x3d/0x49
(XEN)    [<ffff828c8011b9a4>] _spin_lock+0x11/0x2d
(XEN)    [<ffff828c80111d4e>] alloc_heap_pages+0xcf/0x43d
(XEN)    [<ffff828c80113775>] alloc_domheap_pages+0x115/0x160
(XEN)    [<ffff828c80113810>] alloc_xenheap_pages+0x50/0xd7
(XEN)    [<ffff828c801a4163>] alloc_host_save_area+0x18/0x45
(XEN)    [<ffff828c801a21b0>] start_svm+0x6b/0x1f5
(XEN)    [<ffff828c80184b5d>] init_amd+0x92b/0x96e
(XEN)    [<ffff828c801852cf828c80163108>] smp_store_cpu_info+0x3b/0xbd
(XEN)    [<ffff828c8016328b>] smp_callin+0x101/0x217
(XEN)    [<ffff828c80164314>] start_secondary+0xb0/0x419


Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>


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diff -r 45ca3f3c3f98 xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c	Tue Jun 16 11:53:47 2009 +0100
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/svm/svm.c	Wed Jun 17 16:15:44 2009 +0200
@@ -850,6 +850,9 @@ int start_svm(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
     ecx = cpuid_ecx(0x80000001);
     boot_cpu_data.x86_capability[5] = ecx;
     
+    /* Now enable interrupts so it's safe to take locks. */
+    local_irq_enable();
+
     if ( !(test_bit(X86_FEATURE_SVME, &boot_cpu_data.x86_capability)) )
         return 0;
 

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             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-17 14:20 Christoph Egger [this message]
2009-06-18  8:51 ` [PATCH][SVM] fix spinlock panic Keir Fraser
2009-06-18  9:25   ` Christoph Egger
2009-06-18  9:47     ` Keir Fraser
2009-06-18 11:27       ` Christoph Egger

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