Re: 2.6.16 Guest Hangs on Boot

Alec Joseph Rivera
2010-09-16T08:17:37Z

On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 22:37 +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Alec Joseph Rivera wrote:
> []
> >> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> >> Memory: 1022272k/1048564k available (1671k kernel code, 25488k reserved, 890k data, 200k init, 131064k highmem)
> >> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
> > -- end
>
> Hm. There was some error with earlier kernels and
> kvm that resulted in exactly this behavour. Maybe
> even a (guest) kernel bug.. no? My memory is vague
> in this area, but it tells there was something...
>

Hi Michael:

I suspect has something to do with loops (re: bogomips calibration) or
timers (re: calibration + pci probing). Will verify this when I get the
time to read the source.

Maybe someone more familiar with this kernel area can shed some light on
the topic too...? :-) only if I'm not stretching too much..

> /mjt

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