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AW: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen BUG in mm / Xen 4.0.1 with 2.6.32.18/21 pvops

To: "Carsten Schiers" <carsten@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: AW: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen BUG in mm / Xen 4.0.1 with 2.6.32.18/21 pvops Kernel?
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:48:33 +0100
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>>> On 09.09.10 at 20:27, "Carsten Schiers" <carsten@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> and provided the output, just in case it is what you needed. I will for 
> sure need some time to understand that.
> Is the hypothesis that a) the BIOS is wrong, and b) Xen is checking more 
> extreme than bare metal, so we need to
> make the Xen Code a bit more relaxed (error message instead of crash)?

I think the underlying problem was pointed out before: The page table
accessor functions can't currently propagate errors, and hence
ioremap() can't be forced to fail if Xen refused a mapping. And then, as
I wrote in an earlier reply, the check for not trying to map RAM from
ioremap() is pretty pointless (and hence no help) currently for the Xen
case.

Jan


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