From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cooper Subject: Re: HVM domains crash after upgrade from XEN 4.5.1 to 4.5.2 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:53:01 +0000 Message-ID: <564E60DD.6000507@citrix.com> References: <5644A248.1060505@web2web.at> <5644C1CD.3020202@citrix.com> <56451A2B.9090706@web2web.at> <56459E5F02000078000B4944@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> <5645B6BC.6030603@citrix.com> <56467D44.5040205@web2web.at> <56479A6B.6080102@citrix.com> <5647CE57.50209@web2web.at> <5648E727.6080204@cardoe.com> <56492BDF.5030208@web2web.at> <20151116153107.GD13720@char.us.oracle.com> <564A2B91.2090501@web2web.at> <564A6064.4080800@citrix.com> <564A626E.6010305@web2web.at> <564D00E0.8080004@web2web.at> <564D0720.9020506@citrix.com> <564D1875.2060601@web2web.at> <564D2088.3020604@citrix.com> <564E2AC7.3080109@web2web.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <564E2AC7.3080109@web2web.at> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Atom2 , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Doug Goldstein , xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 19/11/2015 20:02, Atom2 wrote: > Am 19.11.15 um 02:06 schrieb Andrew Cooper: >> Thanks! That is what I was looking for. >> >> Sadly, it is less useful than I was hoping. The guest is not appearing >> to do anything interesting which causes the bad state; it is almost a >> full second between the previous action of note, and the crash. >> >> Can you email me the bad HVMLoader binary please? > Hi Andrew, > Sure I can email the binary. What version of the HVMLoader do you want > me to send to you? Should this be one with the debug option and debug > symbols or a standard build without any of those? I assume we are > talking about amd64 - right? hvmloader is always a 32bit binary, no matter what your host environment is. I would like any of the ones which reliably crash for you, preferably debug if that is available. > > Given the recent findings do you still want me to boot with minimal > command line options to rule out an interaction with the options as > suggested in an earlier answer? No - this is unnecessary now. > > I can certainly do this, but would need to reconfigure certain things > as both my HVM domUs require PCI passthrough devices (which you have > stripped off the suggested minimal command line) to be available. > Failing to see those devices puts those domUs into an unconfigured > state and they re-start their initial setup process. Don't worry - Jan figured this out from the disassembly, which I admittedly missed. It would be nice to see your vm's .cfg file to help me reproduce the issue. ~Andrew