Re: Re: [Xen-users] xen 3.0 Test CD v1 released

[Matt Ayres <matta@tektonic.net>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
> On 25 Nov 2005, at 17:33, Matt Ayres wrote:
> 
>> Can you comment if the bugs I've reported in bugzilla #'s 402, 405, 
>> and 406 have been fixed/assigned? I tried to change a few of our 
>> (unixshell.com) users over to a 3.0 server and it turned out poorly.  
>> We have serial console (with logging) setup for our servers so when a 
>> system panics or sends an oops so I am more than capable of capturing 
>> it submitting bugs for any troubles, but I received those different 3 
>> panics and the system couldn't stay up for more than a few hours (I 
>> had even tried turning off PAE and SMP support).  This was all using 
>> snapshots from around 11/13.  I know there have been many, many 
>> commits since then.
> 
> 402 and 405 are the same bug. Can you really repro it with a non-PAE 
> kernel? It looks related to using swiotlb to access memory >4GB.
> 

I should have documented this better, I believe due to the panics in 
402/405 I switched to non-PAE, non-SMP dom0 and domU kernels and then 
produced 406.

> If you can repro 406 with a debug build of Xen (debug=y make) then the 
> backtrace will make much more sense.
> 

I can try to do this.  Of course I can't guarantee to get the panic, but 
if I get do see anything I'll make sure the kernels are built with 
debugging enabled.