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[Xen-devel] Re: Bootup fix for _brk_end being != _end

To: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Bootup fix for _brk_end being != _end
From: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:31:47 +0000
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:48:21AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > > > > Additionally, I suggest to apply patch prepared by Steffano Stabellini
> > > > > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/31/232) which fixes memory management
> > > > > issue in Xen guest. I was not able boot guest machine without
> > > > > above mentioned patch.
> > > >
> > > > after some discussions we came up with a different approach to fix the
> > > > issue; I sent a couple of patches a little while ago:
> > > >
> > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/28/410
> > >
> > > I tested git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git 
> > > 2.6.38-tip-fixes
> > > and it works on x86_64, however, it does not work on i386. Tested as
> > > unprivileged guest on Xen Ver. 4.1.0-rc2-pre. On i386 domain crashes
> > > silently at early boot stage :-(((.
> >
> > Details? Can you provide the 'xenctx' output of where it crashed?
> 
> As I wrote above domain is dying and I am not able to connect to it using
> xenctx after crash :-(((. I do not know how to do that in another way.
> 

try adding:

extra = "loglevel=9 debug earlyprintk=xenboot"

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