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Re: [Xen-devel] reboot after "scrubbing free ram"

To: Bastian Mäuser <mephisto@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] reboot after "scrubbing free ram"
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:50:38 +0000
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On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 11:40 +0000, Bastian Mäuser wrote:
> On 02/09/2011 12:12 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 10:16 +0000, Bastian Mäuser wrote: 
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I have some diagnostic Info for you. Tried to get xen-4.0.1 working on
> >> another node of my cluster. Only difference: Newer revision of the
> >> Hardware. Exactly same Software Stack.
> >>
> >> Stack: Ubuntu Lucid 64bit, xen-4.0.1 from Source, selfbuilt
> >> linux-2.6.32.27 from xen/stable-2.6.32.x
> >>
> >> Nodes working: HP DL380G5 16GB (Intel X5460)
> >>
> >> Node not working: HP DL380G6 16GB (Intel X5550)
> >>
> >> Effect: Xen starts but dom0 Crashes immidiately after I see the message
> >> "Scrubbing free Ram". I attached Screenshot of the Management Processors
> >> Serial Port.
> >>
> >> I used the same dom0 kernel deb that successfully runs on other Nodes
> >> (as well on xen-4.0.1).
> >>
> >> Any ideas? I'm really stuck on this. I use XEN since 5+ years, but I
> >> never had that one..
> > Please can you convert the faulting RIP address to a line of code. e.g.
> > using
> > $ gdb vmlinux
> > (gdb) list *0xffff.....
> I need some more Info on that. GDB'ing the Kernel Image won't work right?

vmlinux is found at the top level of the directory where you built the
kernel, it is an uncompressed, unstripped ELF file which you should be
able to run gdb on.

You are right that running gdb on e.g. a bzImage won't work. Even if you
were to extract the ELF file from the bzImage container it would be
stripped and hence not very useful.

> > Please see also "Are there more debugging options I could enable to
> > troubleshoot problems with Xen and/or dom0 kernel?"
> > http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps for other debug options to
> > try.
> 
> This is my Debugging:
> 
>   multiboot /boot/xen-4.0.1.gz dom0_mem=1024M dummy=dummy loglvl=all
> guest_loglvl=all sync_console console_to_ring com1=115200,8n1
> console=com1 lapic=debug apic_verbosity=debug apic=debug iommu=off
>   module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.27 dummy=dummy root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 ro
> console=hvc0 earlyprintk=xen nomodeset initcall_debug debug loglevel=10
>   module /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32.27
> 
> 
> > Limiting the amount of memory given to dom0 (using the dom0_mem
> > hypervisor option) would be interesting in case this is the same issue
> > as Debian bug #606964.
> As you can see i always allocate 1gb to dom0..

OK, thanks.

> 
> Bastian



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