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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: iommu=0 leading to panic when system defaults to using x2apic
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:02:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D0224E602000078000273AD@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C927C3C4.C5DD%keir@xen.org>

>>> On 10.12.10 at 12:47, Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org> wrote:
> On 10/12/2010 10:58, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> On 10.12.10 at 11:06, Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org> wrote:
>>> Are you looking at xen-4.0? I think you should look at latest xen-unstable
>> 
>> I looked at 4.0 in parallel with -unstable (non-staging) as of
>> yesterday.
> 
> Even before yesterday, xen-unstable benefits from c/s 22388, which is
> intended to work around the iommu=0/x2apic=0 dependency a bit. Not sure if
> it is fully satisfactory. And it is not backported to 4.0 as yet because,
> well, I don't understand this crap enough, basically.

Ah, yes, that makes it better (and I must then have looked at an
older snapshot of -unstable instead).

Still, as you say, a lot of questions remain. On top of what you and
I raised already, I wonder whether the APIC-ID-exceeding-8-bits
case is really being handled correctly now when iommu=0.

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-10 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-10  9:12 iommu=0 leading to panic when system defaults to using x2apic Jan Beulich
2010-12-10 10:06 ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-10 10:58   ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-10 11:47     ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-10 12:02       ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2010-12-10 15:00         ` Zhang, Yang Z
2010-12-10 15:39           ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-10 18:26             ` Kay, Allen M
2010-12-10 18:49               ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-11  0:07                 ` Kay, Allen M
2010-12-13  8:15                   ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-13  9:03                     ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-14  2:25                       ` Kay, Allen M
2010-12-14  7:44                         ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-14  7:59                           ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-15  2:35                           ` Kay, Allen M
2010-12-14  8:21               ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-14  8:46                 ` Weidong Han
2010-12-14  9:12                   ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-14 16:53                 ` Kay, Allen M
2010-12-14 17:06                   ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-14 17:08                   ` Jan Beulich
2010-12-14 17:52                     ` Yinghai Lu
2010-12-14 18:18                       ` Keir Fraser
2010-12-15  7:53                         ` Jan Beulich

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