Re: [Xen-devel] Fwd: NetBSD xl core-dump not working... Memory fault (core dumped)

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 10/12/13 08:21, James Harper wrote:
> I've been working with Mike on this today. After he re-applied the patch (something must have gone wrong initially), an ioctl error is repeated constantly instead of SIGSEGV:
>
> xc: error: xc_map_foreign_range: ioctl failed (14 = Bad address): Internal error
>
> I dumped out some of the variables though, and:
>
> nr_memory_map = 1
> pfn_start = 0, pfn_end = 1048575
>
> this equates to 4GB of pfn's to be dumped on a vm with mem/maxmem = 256MB... is there code that skips empty pages? If not, that seems to be the explanation for the errors.
>
> James

xc_map_foreign_range is completely broken as far as errors go.

The privcmd driver ends up doing:

if ( HYPERVISOR_mmu_update(foo,bar) < 0 )
    return -EFAULT;

Your best bet here is intercepting this and finding the real error.

privcmd (and evenchn and gnttab) devices are generally broken as far as
errors go, because it is impossible to distinguish between a kernel
error and a Xen error.


In someones copious free time, (possibly mine if I ever get any) a brand
new set of ioctls on each of the Xen devices would not go amis.

~Andrew