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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.32-rc not booting with Xen-3.2 (bisected)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:18:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE73973.3070709@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.01.0910262154410.9408@bogon.housecafe.de>

On 10/26/09 22:01, Christian Kujau wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 at 21:20, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
>> What does this map to in the kernel symbol table?
>>     
> Hm, I'm not sure how to answer this? Got a hint, please?
>   

$ gdb vmlinux
(gdb) x/i 0xffffffff812c50ad

>>> Also, "xm list" takes very long to complete now:
>>>
>>> $ time xm list sid
>>> Name                  ID   Mem VCPUs      State   Time(s)
>>> sid                  906   512     1     --p---     0.0
>>> real    0m10.677s user    0m0.108s sys     0m0.028s
>>>       
>> Hm, that's odd.  Never seen that.
>>     
> The load of the Dom0 with the panicked DomU "running" higher than 
> usual (3-4 instead of ~0) and xenstored is spinning and waiting for 
> (causing?) disk I/O. This is not the case when the DomU is runing just 
> fine. I didn't strace xenstored yet, because I don't want to risk
> killing the whole Xen box.
>   

Hm, sounds like a xenstored bug, or something is just pounding on it. 
Are there any other domains running, or other busy processes?

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-27 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26 22:02 2.6.32-rc not booting with Xen-3.2 (bisected) Christian Kujau
2009-10-26 22:17 ` Christian Kujau
2009-10-26 22:55   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-27  1:14     ` Christian Kujau
2009-10-27  1:26       ` Christian Kujau
2009-10-27  4:20         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-27  5:01           ` Christian Kujau
2009-10-27 18:18             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-10-27 19:01               ` Christian Kujau
2009-10-27 19:12                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-10-28  2:10                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-11-02  6:53                   ` Christian Kujau

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