From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Ayres Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-users] xen 3.0 Test CD v1 released Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:35:34 -0500 Message-ID: <438A1896.90503@tektonic.net> References: <43874AFC.7030604@tektonic.net> <7a6ac9a5a944921f7929f84abb3651ff@cl.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <7a6ac9a5a944921f7929f84abb3651ff@cl.cam.ac.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Keir Fraser Cc: Ian Pratt , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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.