From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Vrabel Subject: Re: xenstored crashes with SIGSEGV Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:25:15 +0000 Message-ID: <5492AB8B.90201@citrix.com> References: <546461A2.2070908@univention.de> <1415869951.31613.26.camel@citrix.com> <548B1472.5080302@univention.de> <1418401932.16425.34.camel@citrix.com> <548B1BA8.3090504@univention.de> <1418403387.16425.38.camel@citrix.com> <548B23FA.6070108@univention.de> <1418407116.16425.53.camel@citrix.com> <1418649458.16425.108.camel@citrix.com> <548EEDF5.20808@univention.de> <1418655014.16425.138.camel@citrix.com> <1418665524.16425.171.camel@citrix.com> <548F60BF.4020901@univention.de> <1418726712.16425.213.camel@citrix.com> <1418727970.16425.217.camel@citrix.com> <1418732635.16425.221.camel@citrix.com> <1418897867.11882.11.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1418897867.11882.11.camel@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell , Frediano Ziglio Cc: George Dunlap , Philipp Hahn , Ian Jackson , Xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Jan Beulich List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 18/12/14 10:17, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 16:13 +0000, Frediano Ziglio wrote: >> Do we have a bug in Xen that affect SSE instructions (possibly already >> fixed after Philipp version) ? > > I've had a niggling feeling of Deja Vu over this which I'd been putting > down to an old Xen on ARM bug in the area of FPU register switching. > > But it seems at some point (possibly even still) there was a similar > issue with pvops kernels on x86, see: > http://bugs.xenproject.org/xen/bug/40 > > Philipp, what kernel are you guys using? > > CCing Jan and the x86 kernel guys (and George since he registered the > bug). I'm not seeing anything in the kernel logs which looks like a fix > (there's some PVH related cr0 frobbing, but I don't think that's it). > > I also can't quite shake the feeling that there was another much older > issue relating to FPU context switch on x86, but I think that was truly > ancient history (2.6.18 era stuff) http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=139132566024357 David