Re: ACPI-Tables corrupted?

[Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>]

On 07/29/2010 08:39 AM, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 29/07/2010 07:19, "Juergen Gross"<juergen.gross@ts.fujitsu.com>  wrote:
>
>>> What is the crash? And do you see any indiciation that x2APIC is turned
>>> on? Do provide a serial log please.
>>
>> Log is attached.
>>
>> I did some more testing. The problem occurred on a Nehalem-EX system. I tried
>> the same on a Nehalem-EP system and all was okay. I suspect some further
>> problems in the ACPI tables of the EX system now. I'm not too familiar with
>> ACPI tables. Anything I can do for further analysis?
>
> Okay I think now that the crash is legitimate. The easy fix is that we
> should reinstate the DMAR before kexec'ing the crash kernel. I'll look into
> doing a patch to the hypervisor later today.

Thanks!
BTW: Do you understand why the EP system has no problems with the patched DMAR
entry?

Juergen

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