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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: page fault in xmem_pool_alloc w/ TXT
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:56:27 +0000
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>>> On 24.03.11 at 16:41, "Cihula, Joseph" <joseph.cihula@intel.com> =
wrote:
> In the latest changesets of xen-unstable, when Xen is booted with =
tboot/TXT,=20
> it gives a page fault in xmem_pool_alloc():
> ...
> (XEN) [VT-D]dmar.c:585:   RMRR region: base_addr 8f305000 end_address=20
> 8f305fff
> (XEN) PCI: MCFG configuration 0: base a0000000 segment 0 buses 0 - 255
> (XEN) PCI: MCFG area at a0000000 reserved in E820
> (XEN) Xen ERST support is initialized.
> (XEN) Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> (XEN) IRQ limits: 48 GSI, 4576 MSI/MSI-X
> (XEN) Using scheduler: SMP Credit Scheduler (credit)
> (XEN) Early fatal page fault at e008:ffff82c48012ac66 (cr2=3D000000000000=
ec18,=20
> ec)
> (XEN) Stack dump: ffff83036fff9868 0000000000000060 ffff83036ffe6000=20
> 0000000000
> ...
>=20
> We have bisected this to the following commit:
> c/s 23013
> ACPI: large cleanup
>=20
> In some cases, entire files turned out unnecessary. Of what remains,
> move whatever possible into .init.*, and some data items into
> .data.read_mostly.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
>=20
> Can someone take a look and see what got moved into .init.* that =
shouldn't=20
> have been?

A crash that early can't be due to something having got moved
into .init.* - if you can get me the full log and the corresponding
xen-syms, I'll certainly check.

Jan