Daily Xen Builds

[David F Barrera <dfbp@us.ibm.com>]

August 25, 2005 using hg source as of:


changeset: 6401:98a6eb458c783cbbb8f19e5713a4ad8a1ea830c6
tag: tip
user: kaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk
date: Thu Aug 25 11:25:26 2005
summary: Memory management fixes. Page tables are created, buddy 
allocator now

x86_32 (no PAE support)

    * SLES 9 SP2 on IBM xSeries 235 (512 RAM)
    * Builds and boots without problems
    * Able to create domU
    * Ran LTP on both dom0 and domU

ISSUES:

    * Investigating a ‘Kernel panic – not syncing: BUG!’ displayed on
      two test machines
    * RHEL 4 and SLES 9
    * No defect written on it, yet

Last good changeset for x86_32, non-PAE:

changeset: 6395:8d31f9a9c4232b8f9d0200d0a3d312170c197f63
tag: tip
user: kaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk
date: Thu Aug 25 08:27:10 2005
summary: Fix SMP booting: x86/64 startup initialisation fixes and so on.

x86_32 (PAE)

    * SLES 9 SP2, FC4, and RHEL 4 IBM xSeries 305, 335 and IBM ThinkCentre
    * Builds and boots without problems
    * Able to create domU
    * Ran LTP on both dom0 and domU

ISSUES:

    * Same issue described on the x86_32 (no PAE support) section

Last good changeset for x86_32 (PAE):

changeset: 6395:8d31f9a9c4232b8f9d0200d0a3d312170c197f63
tag: tip
user: kaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk
date: Thu Aug 25 08:27:10 2005
summary: Fix SMP booting: x86/64 startup initialisation fixes and so on.

x86_64 (SLES 9 SP2 and FC4 on IBM HS20 Blades)

    * Changeset 6400 fixed a lot of previously reported problems
    * Dom0 builds and boots without problems now
    * Guests OSs can be created, but I am seeing them crash (below)

ISSUES:

    * DomU will crash after some activity
    * I can recreate reliably the crash
    * Bugzilla #190 - Kernel BUG at "drivers/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c":95


Last good changesets for x86_64:

changeset: 6401:98a6eb458c783cbbb8f19e5713a4ad8a1ea830c6
tag: tip
user: kaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk
date: Thu Aug 25 11:25:26 2005
summary: Memory management fixes. Page tables are created, buddy 
allocator now

changeset: 6400:b88c5350de57a1fc18943cbb33fa72c348004fc8
user: kaf24@firebug.cl.cam.ac.uk
date: Thu Aug 25 11:21:19 2005
summary: This patch fixes Bugzilla #169. (It should fix #187 too -- Keir).


-- Regards,

David F Barrera

Linux Technology Center

Systems and Technology Group, IBM

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