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Re: [Xen-devel] unstable tip not booting on x86-64 with 'domain_crash_sy

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] unstable tip not booting on x86-64 with 'domain_crash_sync'
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:32:31 +0300
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:36:44PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 7/9/06 14:28, "Muli Ben-Yehuda" <muli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I'm seeing this boot crash reliably on x86-64 with the current tip. Is
> > anyone else seeing this? suggestions for debugging, other than
> > bisection?
> 
> Is the kernel from the same build as Xen (oughtn't to matter, but worth
> checking)?

Yes

> Have you tried disassembling the kernel image to look at the address
> in the backtrace to see where the kernel is crashing?

Working on it now.

FWIW, it's an 8G Intel based machine, but playing with the ammount of
memory dedicated to Xen/dom0 doesn't make a different. Also, it
doesn't happen on a dual Opteron x86-64 machine.

Cheers,
Muli

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