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Re: [Xen-devel] Crash with paravirt-ops 2.6.31.6 kernel

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Crash with paravirt-ops 2.6.31.6 kernel
From: Bastian Blank <bastian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:54:03 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:04:36PM +0300, William Pitcock wrote:
> [    1.254927] init[1] general protection ip:f779042f sp:ff9b0340 error:0

Hmm, this looks like the old Debian bug 544145[1]. For some reason the
hypervisor jumps back into 64bit mode after a syscall instruction.
Workaround: vdso32=0 or deinstall libc6-i686,

> I don't know why this is happening.  It does not happen on XenSource 2.6.18 
> kernel, or the Debian 2.6.26 kernel.

It happens with all current pv-ops kernels.

Bastian

[1]: http://bugs.debian.org/544145
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