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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fresh install of Windows XP hangs early in boot?
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:34:26 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080731193426.GA9123@dmt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adaskts0wnh.fsf@cisco.com>

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:27:14PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > Known problem:
>  > http://www.nabble.com/LSI:-avoid-infinite-loops-p17116605.html
> 
> I tried this hack (and actually made the magic insns number 500), and
> doing an XP install I got
> 
>     lsi_scsi: error: Reselect with pending DMA
> 
> do you have any feeling if this is because the script execution got
> stopped too soon?  Or is this likely a further issue?

Perhaps the context that was stopped due to > 500 instructions was
handling a DMA operation that didnt finish.

Since the hack won't restart execution by itself, the driver executed
a command (probably SIGP) to restart, leaving the DMA operation
unfinished.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-31 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <aday73k34zw.fsf@cisco.com>
2008-07-29 19:08 ` Fresh install of Windows XP hangs early in boot? Roland Dreier
2008-07-29 19:39   ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-29 21:02     ` Alberto Treviño
2008-07-29 21:23     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-29 22:00       ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-29 22:57         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-30  1:14           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-30  5:25             ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-30  3:27           ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-30  4:32         ` Alberto Treviño
2008-07-30  7:14         ` Chris Lalancette
2008-07-30 14:55           ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-30 15:13             ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-30  5:27       ` Roland Dreier
2008-07-31 19:34         ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]

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