Re: [V3 PATCH 9/9] pvh dom0: add opt_dom0pvh to setup.c

[Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 11:30:16 +0100
Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote:

> On 03/12/13 03:33, Mukesh Rathor wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 12:46:49 -0800
> > Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 12:38:12 -0800
> >> Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 20:38:26 +0100
> >>> Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 02/12/13 20:30, Mukesh Rathor wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:09:50 +0100
> >>>>> Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>> ......
> >>>> Thanks for the input, I haven't been able to do much debugging,
> >>>> but AFAICT the problem comes from alloc_vcpu_guest_context
> >>>> returning NULL, because alloc_domheap_page(NULL, 0) inside of
> >>>> that function also returned NULL (not able to allocate a page).
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm currently using your tree for both Linux (branch tmp2) and
> >>>> Xen (branch dom0pvh-v3), no added or removed patches (only the
> >>>> line mentioned above in order to boot Dom0 in PVH mode).
> >>>>
> >>>> Can you confirm you are able to boot a PVH Dom0 from you Xen and
> >>>> Linux trees?
> >>>
> >>> yes, I'd not be submitting the patches otherwise ;)..
> >>>
> >>> Name                                        ID   Mem VCPUs
> >>> State   Time(s) Domain-0                                     0
> >>> 1200     3     r-----    6250.6
> >>
> >> FWIW, here's my command line:
> >>
> >>         kernel /xen.hybrid.kdb console=com1,vga com1=57600,8n1
> >> dom0_mem=1200M maxcpus=4 dom0_max_vcpus=3 noreboot sync_console
> >> dom0pvh module /bzImage.hyb ro root=/dev/sda10 console=tty
> >> console=hvc0,57600n8
> >>
> >>
> >> Something is going with memory on your system looks like, the line 
> >>
> >>     Released 18446744073708661104 pages of unused memory
> >>
> >> is worrysome. May be start with dom0_mem and see if that makes a
> >> difference?
> >>
> >> OTOH, after I am done cranking out another dom0 version with Jan's
> >> comments, I'll try out on my system without dom0_mem specified.
> >> That make take a day or two.
> > 
> > 
> > Roger, 
> > 
> > I'm able to reproduce by not specifying dom0_mem option. Will debug
> > linux tomorrow to see what's going on. JFYI.
> 
> Thanks, I've tried with dom0_mem and it seems to work, but I've also 
> found that rebooting a PVH Dom0 triggers the following assert (this
> also happens with your new dom0pvh-v4 branch):
> 
> (XEN) Domain 0 shutdown: rebooting machine.
> (XEN) Assertion 'read_cr0() & X86_CR0_TS' failed at vmx.c:595
> (XEN) ----[ Xen-4.4-unstable  x86_64  debug=y  Not tainted ]----
> (XEN) CPU:    0
> (XEN) RIP:    e008:[<ffff82d0801d8992>]

Hmm... I am able to reboot, no problem. I'll have to see how the 
modified domu patch handles cr0 again.

LMK if you find anything in the meantime.

thanks
Mukesh

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