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Re: [Xen-devel] kernel panic

To: "James Harper" <JamesH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] kernel panic
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:25:53 +0100
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> > Yes, there seems to be a nasty bug that possibly involves writable
> > page tables (noone has reported the bug with writable page tables
> > disabled in the kernel configuration).
> 
> I'm building now with wpt disabled. I'll let you know how it goes. In
> addition, trying to clean up the crashed domain with 'xm destroy <name>'
> caused dom0 and therefore the whole machine to reboot.

Yes, there is definitely a reference-counting bug in Xen. Once a
guest prints out that particular message, it really is time to reboot
the machine!

> > I've increased the headroom allocated for received packets in teh
> > frontend driver. It should get rid of the messages.
> 
> Is it just an informative message or is it telling me that something is
> wrong?

Informative, as the packet gets copied into a buffer that is big
enough. I just wanted to know how large the buffers should be that I
allocate for received packets -- I want to make it small enough that
buffer accounting in the sockets layer isn't thrown off, but large
enough that packets don't have to be copied to fit. The message tells
me that my chosen size was a bit too small.

 -- Keir


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