Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] let XEN depend on PAE

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Arnd Hannemann wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
>> Arnd Hannemann wrote:
>>     
>>> This is with 2.6.24.2, but latest-git looks the same:
>>> I also tried with 2.6.23 which crashes instantly, without any output
>>> of the guest.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I'm not too surprised.  Non-PAE Xen is a bit of a rarity, and it only
>> gets tested rarely.  Chris Wright did spend some time on it a while ago,
>> but I don't know that its had any real attention since.  I've been
>> making sure non-PAE compiles, but I've been lax about testing it.
>> This is the first usermode exec, I guess?  The backtrace is a bit odd;
>> I've never seen a problem in move_page_tables before.
>>     
>
> Yes its trying to execute the first script in initramfs, I also tried with initramdisk
> and got a similar error. (move_page_tables also involved)
>
>   
>> Does "xm dmesg" tell you what Xen is complaining about?  You may need to
>> compile with debug=y in Config.mk.
>>     
>
> (XEN) mm.c:645:d44 Non-privileged (44) attempt to map I/O space 00000000
>
> I will recompile with debug=y and post the output.
> If I reduce the dom0 memory with dom0_mem=200000 I see something like
> 00000080 with dom0_mem=800000 I always see 00000000.
>   

That's helpful.  Looks like the mfn is getting mushed to 0.

    J