Re: dmidecode doesn't work under xen 4.1.1 on certain hardware

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:25:37PM +0100, Anthony Wright wrote:
> On 06/10/2011 17:07, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >>> If you feel adventours you could use the oss.oracle.com/git/kwilk/xen.git
> >>> tree. Mainly the #linux-next or #testing branch. They both have David's new
> >>> e820 code.
> >>>
> >>> The way to get it is:
> >>>
> >>> git clone oss.oracle.com/git/kwilk/xen.git
> >>> cd xen
> >>> git checkout origin/linux-next
> >>> make -j90 
> >> Sorry it panicked :-(
> >> I've attached two photos of the two flavours of panic & a copy of the
> >> config.
> > No serial console? Did it panic when you booted as baremetal?
> Sorry - no serial console - I hadn't really intended to become part
> kernel hacker!! We're looking for leads to see if we can set it up, but
> I'm going to have to look through the attic into some old dusty boxes...

Heheh.
> 
> It runs through fine on bare metal.

Ok, this was the #linux-next branch right? If you did:

git checkout v3.1-rc8

and built that kernel does it work? (Trying to figure out if the patches
in #linux-next are the cause of your failure).

> 
> >> It seems to get through the initial kernel boot and hands over to my
> >> init script, but panics early on in that process, probably at the point
> >> that udev is loading modules.
> > Looks completly unrelated to the dmidecode issue. Lets attack one thing
> > at a time.
> >
> > Can you move the ioatdma.ko as .bak so it wont load and try again.
> I moved the ioatdma.ko module out of the way, but I'm still getting the
> panics in my init script as udev registers the devices. It's the same
> panic as I attached a photo of in the previous email (the one with
> xen_force_evtchk_callback & do_coprocessor_segment_overrun in the call
> stack).

Oh, I somehow missed the do_coprocessor_segment_overrun. That looks to
be something entirely new or perhaps: http://bugs.debian.org/642154

Hm, let me take a look at the photos once more.