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From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Subject: Re: x2apic issues with Solaris and Xen guests
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 21:05:01 +0300
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20.04.2015 20:29, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2015-04-20 19:07, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> I wonder whether the following two x2apic issues are related:
>>
>> Solaris 10 U11 network doesn't work
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1040500
>>
>> kvm - fails to setup timer interrupt via io-apic
>> (Thanks to Michael Tokarev for posting this link)
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528077#68
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>> Has anyone looked into this?
> 
> Not yet. Is there a handy reproduction guest image? Or maybe someone
> would like to start with tracing what the guest and the host do.

The second link gives a trivial reproducer, you need just the
xen hipervisor binary and some kernel.  This should be easy
too, because it happens right on boot.  But I guess it requires
some inner knowlege of xen early boot machinery.

Thanks,

/mjt