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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Marcial Rion <marcial.rion@swissonline.ch>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Issue with pv_ops Kernel 2.6.31.6 and Xen
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:46:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100128194603.GB14581@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B6127DA.1040408@swissonline.ch>

> > The issue I have:
> > While Xen pv_ops Kernel 2.6.31.6 perfectly runs on bare metal, it fails
> > to get network connectivity when run on top of Xen 3.4.1 (Gentoo default
> > installation). Though the system seems to come up correctly at a first
> > sight and network interface is available (I can ping it locally), access
> > to network fails (I cannot ping other system in the network nor vice-versa).


That makes sense. The IRQ for the network device is not assigned to the
driver, so it fails to work.
> >
> > What I discovered so far:
> > Consulting the boot messages within "dmesg", I discovered that ACPI SCI
> > fails to load when run on top of Xen, while this error is not happening
> > on bare metal.
> >
> > With XEN:
> > *********
> > bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
> > ACPI: SCI (IRQ20) allocation failed
> > ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_ACQUIRED, Unable to install System Control
> > Interrupt handler 20090521 evevent-161
> > ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter
> > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > WARNING: at lib/kobject.c:595 kobject_put+0x27/0x3c()


That is strange. I am not seeing this at all on my machine, but then I
don't have such an ancient box. Can you provide the whole dmesg and as
well the Xen bootup to figure out why it seems to not have IRQ slots
open.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-28 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-22 22:38 Issue with pv_ops Kernel 2.6.31.6 and Xen Marcial Rion
2010-01-28  5:59 ` Marcial Rion
2010-01-28 19:46   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2010-01-29 23:55     ` Marcial Rion
2010-01-30 21:11     ` Marcial Rion
2010-02-07 15:39       ` Marcial Rion
2010-02-08 18:22         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-02-08 21:48           ` Marcial Rion
2010-02-08 23:40             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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