[Xen-devel] DomU crashing on x86

[David F Barrera <dfbp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are seeing a problem in xen-unstable where DomU crashes immediately
after booting on some x86 boxes. In my case, it is happening on a couple
of machines that have SCSI drives and where DomU is a SLES 9
installation. Here's some data on my setup:

                Dom0            DomU            Dom U Crash?    SCSI

Machine A       SLES 9          SLES 9          Yes             Yes
Machine B       SLES 9          RHEL 4          No              Yes
Machine C       RHEL 4          SLES 9          Yes             Yes
Machine D       FC3       SLES 9 and Debian     No              No
                                                
The only thing I see in common in the machines that fail is the SCSI
drives.  Machines B and C are identical; the others are different
models.

This is the Oops info that I am seeing (no other info is displayed):

Oops:   0002 [#1]
PREEMPT SMP modules linked in:
CPU:    0
EIP:    0061:[<00244ec0>]       Not tainted VLI


David Wolinsky (david_wolinsky@xxxxxxxx) has also reported seeing the
problem:

------- Additional Comments From david_wolinsky@xxxxxxxx  2005-07-13
21:26 -------
I put together a testing suite to figure out the problem… and it seems
related 
to two parts of my machine.

A)  Fedora Core 3
B)  SATA drive (as you are probably aware these use the same scsi
driver)

To test A out, I installed Debian (known for its stability, etc)… And
ran with 
SATA in SATA mode and in IDE emulation mode (cominbation mode as listed
in the 
bios)… both tests passed (not concrete, I only ran it as long as I had
known 
the test of Fedora Core to last… I'll run it over night for 100%).  

To test B out, I set my SATA mode into IDE emulation mode and ran it in
FC3, 
this time it crashed the DomU and not Dom0.

My conclusion is... an issue between the SCSI driver, Xen hypervisor,
and the 
memory driver
-------------------end of David Wolinsky's comments ---------------

Has anyone else observed this problem?  I believe this is a serious
problem that requires some attention.

-- 
Regards,

David F Barrera
Linux Technology Center
Systems and Technology Group, IBM

"The wisest men follow their own direction. "
                                                        Euripides


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