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From: "Christopher S. Aker" <caker@theshore.net>
To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: xen devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Xen 3.2.1-rc5: FATAL PAGE FAULT
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:39:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480E3F0C.6080803@theshore.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C433F11A.17BD4%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>

Keir Fraser wrote:
> The second crash is just some overzealous asserting. Easily fixed but also
> not very interesting, unfortunately.
> 
> The two main backtraces are exactly the same bug as you saw last time.
> Except in this case you have bogus nonsense in a pair of L2 pagetable
> entries, whereas last time the garbage was in an L3 entry.
> 
> My best guess just now, seeing as noone else has reported ever seeing this,
> is that maybe you have a bad driver or hardware corrupting memory? Obviously
> that's a bit of a stab in the dark though.
> 
> Have you seen this particular type of crash on multiple different machines?
> If so, are they different types of machine?

Two machines thus far, both are of identical software and hardware 
configurations.

Now that it looks like the 3ware issues have been corrected in post-Xen 
3.1 dom0, I'll update our boxes from 2.6.16.x to 2.6.18.8 and hope for 
the best.

Thanks for your help so far.

-Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-22 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-03  4:34 Xen 3.2.1-rc1: FATAL PAGE FAULT Christopher S. Aker
2008-04-03 14:04 ` Christopher S. Aker
2008-04-03 15:55   ` Keir Fraser
2008-04-22 18:19     ` Xen 3.2.1-rc5: " Christopher S. Aker
2008-04-22 18:46       ` Keir Fraser
2008-04-22 19:39         ` Christopher S. Aker [this message]
2008-04-22 20:21           ` Keir Fraser
2008-04-28 14:02             ` Christopher S. Aker
2008-04-28 14:44               ` Keir Fraser
2008-04-28 15:00                 ` Christopher S. Aker

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