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[Xen-devel] Cannot load latest 2.6.32.10 kernel on AMD quad-core

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Cannot load latest 2.6.32.10 kernel on AMD quad-core
From: Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:50:40 -0400
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I previously had the pv_ops dom0 2.6.31.6 kernel built and running on my hardware (amd phenom ii x4 quad-core) just fine under karmic. But that kernel had issues with rxchecksumming. So I upgraded the server to lucid and am now trying to compile a new pv_ops dom0 kernel for it.

Now, yesterday I carefully built the latest 2.6.32.10(xen/stable) pv_ops dom0 kernel twice. Once from the config in the email Lucid pv_ops dom0 howto and once from the lucid server config modified by adding all the XEN configurations. I get the same result both ways. After building the kernel, I try to start the pv_ops dom0 kernel as domU just to make sure it runs and it crashes right at the start of boot complaining like this:

__vmallic_node+0xa2/0xb0
? alloc_large_system_hash+0x15/0x21
? inet_init+0x0/0x209
__vmalloc+0x22/0x30
alloc_large_system_hash+0x15/0x21a
? inet_init+0x0/0x209
? inet_init+0x0/0x209
tcp_init+0xa3//0x37e
inet_init+0x14b/0x209
do_one_initcall+0x3c/0x10a
kernel_init+0x159/0x1af
child_rip+0xa/0x20
Code: d0 49 8b 04 24 48 85 c0 75 ec eb c5 55 48 89 e5 48 8....
9 5d e8 4c 89 65 f0 4c 89 6d f8 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 e5 48 8....
RIP [<ffffffff810f4f5f>] __free_pages+0x1f/0x90
---[ end trace e93713a9d40cd06d ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G      D  W    2.6.32.10 #4
panic+0x78/0x136
? mm_release+0x60/0x130
do_exit+0x6ca/0x7f0
oops_end+0xaf/0xf0
die+0x5b/0x90
do_general_protection+0x152/0x160
general_protection+0x25/0x30
? __free_pages+0x1f/0x90
__vunmap+0x7a/0x110
vfree+0x2a/0x30
__vmalloc_area_node+0x15c/0x190
? alloc_large_system_hash+0x15a/0x21a
__vmalloc_node+0xa2/0xb0
? alloc_large_system_hash+0x15a/0x21a
? inet_init+0x0/0x209
? inet_init+0x0/0x209
tcp_init+0xa3//0x37e
inet_init+0x14b/0x209
do_one_initcall+0x3c/0x10a
kernel_init+0x159/0x1af
child_rip+0xa/0x20
? kernel_init+0x10/0x1af
? child_rip+0x0/0x20

I fired up the old 2.6.31.6 kernel with lucid and it boots just fine as domU.

Can anyone shed some light on what may be the problem here and how I can build a working 2.6.32.10 pv_ops dom0 kernel for this hardware?

-Gerry

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