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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Possible regression in "x86-64: reduce range spanned

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Possible regression in "x86-64: reduce range spanned by 1:1 mapping and frame table indexes"
From: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 23:13:34 +1100
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On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:06:44AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 07.12.09 11:48 >>>
> >On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:37:43AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> While I can't determine the exact source location corresponding to the
> >> crash (without the disassembly of the function), the page table walk
> >> suggests this is a read from to the M2P table, which imposes a couple
> >> of questions: How can this be a non-quad-word aligned access? Is the
> >> access, if it makes sense, guarded by an mfn_valid() check? Is the
> >> memory address corresponding to the M2P slot (mfn 0x3c20001) in a
> >> physical memory hole?
> >
> >Any tips on how I could investigate those questions?
> 
> For the first two, you'd have to connect register/stack values to
> source variables (by analyzing the disassembly) to understand what
> access it is that causes the issue, and where the values come from.
> Or alternatively just add debugging printk()-s to the function in
> question (but that could be a lot of output depending on how long the
> guest survives). Or whatever else debugging technique you like...

Thanks, I was fearing something along those lines.

> For the third, all it takes is looking up the memory map in the hypervisor
> (boot) log.

Ok, thats an easy one :-)

I'll poke some more tomorrow.


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