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From: Mark van Dijk <lists+xen@internecto.net>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: Kernel crash with acpi_processor, cpu_idle and intel_idle =y
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:30:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120726023045.691b21d4@internecto.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <500D7B96020000780008FF30@nat28.tlf.novell.com>

Hi Jan,

> > When I set CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR, CONFIG_CPU_IDLE and
> > CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE to y then I cannot boot Xen; there is a crash.
> 
> Without providing us with the details of the crash, I don't think
> anyone will be able to help here.

Yes, I'll post those as soon as I can.

> > Is it impossible to use INTEL_IDLE with Xen? If this is a known
> > issue then maybe someone can add info to the INTEL_IDLE help text
> > in the kernel configuration...
> 
> All CPU idle management happens in Xen, and the corresponding
> code in the Dom0 (and DomU) kernel gets turned off. There's no
> need to clutter the kernel config option with Xen specific information
> (the kernel ought to work irrespective of its setting).

Here is a message I posted a month ago:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2012-06/msg00403.html

Since then I found that the behaviour of xenpm changed to a working
state when CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y. See my reply, posted a couple of
minutes ago, to Konrad and xen-devel for more info.

> > PS I am not receiving xen-devel messages but this message does
> > probably belong there so I'm posting it there too.
> 
> But nevertheless please don't cross-post.

Alright sorry, xen-users has been removed.

Mark

      reply	other threads:[~2012-07-26  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-22 16:16 Kernel crash with acpi_processor, cpu_idle and intel_idle =y Mark van Dijk
2012-07-23 14:20 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-26  0:25   ` Mark van Dijk
2012-07-26  7:15     ` Jan Beulich
2012-07-26 14:05     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-26 14:57       ` Jan Beulich
2012-07-26 14:55         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-28 12:55           ` Mark van Dijk
2012-07-30  7:45             ` Jan Beulich
2012-07-31 11:58               ` Mark van Dijk
2012-07-31 13:42                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-31 13:40               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-31 21:50                 ` Mark van Dijk
2012-07-31 23:42                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-07-31 23:59                 ` Mark van Dijk
2012-07-31 23:55                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-08-01  0:25                     ` Mark van Dijk
2012-07-23 14:28 ` Jan Beulich
2012-07-26  0:30   ` Mark van Dijk [this message]

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