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RE: [Xen-devel] xen problem with save/restore

To: "Paul Larson" <plars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] xen problem with save/restore
From: "Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 01:20:02 -0000
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] xen problem with save/restore
What were you using before? I seem to recall it was 2.0-testing.bk?

There's currently very few changes between unstable and 2.0-testing
(though this will likely change from next week).  Does it now work
totally reliably? (it failed every time before, right?). You're using
the exact same machine and configuration?

Ian

> I just tried this on the same system/compiler with the 
> xeno-unstable.bk tree and save/restore worked for me.  Anyone 
> know of a something in unstable that might make this work?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul Larson
> 
> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 22:44, Paul Larson wrote:
> > Interesting, I'm using this on a different machine now and 
> getting a 
> > slightly different error when I restore:
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> > 00000007
> >  printing eip:
> > c0302407
> > *pde = ma 00000000 pa 55555000
> >  [<c012bbee>] worker_thread+0x1ea/0x2e0
> > 
> > The new machine is my laptop, an IBM T41p, but otherwise 
> much the same 
> > (debian sarge, same compiler, etc).
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Paul Larson
> > On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 10:58, Paul Larson wrote:
> > > I think I've seen something similar to this posted 
> recently, but I 
> > > can't find the message to reply to.  I build xen-2.0-testing from 
> > > source yesterday.  I have debian sarge running on all my domains 
> > > right now.  I was trying the save/restore feature out, 
> and got this 
> > > after restoring and consoling into a session:
> > > 
> > > ************ REMOTE CONSOLE: CTRL-] TO QUIT ******** Unable to 
> > > handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> > > 00000007
> > >  printing eip:
> > > c030e587
> > > *pde = ma 00000000 pa 55555000
> > >  [<c0109f80>] __do_suspend+0x19f/0x1e0
> > > 
> > >  [<c012ca65>] worker_thread+0x22b/0x32f
> > > 
> > >  [<c010a088>] __shutdown_handler+0x0/0x48
> > > 
> > >  [<c01196c0>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x12
> > > 
> > >  [<c01196c0>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x12
> > > 
> > >  [<c012c83a>] worker_thread+0x0/0x32f
> > > 
> > >  [<c0130b89>] kthread+0xa5/0xab
> > > 
> > >  [<c0130ae4>] kthread+0x0/0xab
> > > 
> > >  [<c010f411>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
> > > 
> > > Oops: 0002 [#1]
> > > PREEMPT DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> > > Modules linked in:
> > > CPU:    0
> > > EIP:    0061:[<c030e587>]    Not tainted VLI
> > > EFLAGS: 00010203   (2.6.9-xenU)
> > > EIP is at init_tsc+0x4b/0x9e
> > > eax: c02c6dd4   ebx: 0000c000   ecx: fbffc000   edx: 00000001
> > > esi: 00000010   edi: c0102000   ebp: 00000000   esp: c0039f04
> > > ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0069
> > > Process events/0 (pid: 3, threadinfo=c0038000 task=c003cac0)
> > > Stack: c010eadd 00000000 c0109f80 fbffc000 000001e1 00000063 
> > > 8ed0dd7b
> > > 00000042
> > >        c02c3200 c2dc5000 c02c5d80 00000000 c0038000 00000000 
> > > c012ca65 00000000
> > >        c0039f74 00000000 c003bf10 c0038000 c0038000 c0038000 
> > > c010a088 c0038000 Call Trace:
> > >  [<c010eadd>] time_resume+0x12/0x51
> > > 
> > >  [<c0109f80>] __do_suspend+0x19f/0x1e0
> > > 
> > >  [<c012ca65>] worker_thread+0x22b/0x32f
> > > 
> > >  [<c010a088>] __shutdown_handler+0x0/0x48
> > > 
> > >  [<c01196c0>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x12
> > > 
> > >  [<c01196c0>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x12
> > > 
> > >  [<c012c83a>] worker_thread+0x0/0x32f
> > > 
> > >  [<c0130b89>] kthread+0xa5/0xab
> > > 
> > >  [<c0130ae4>] kthread+0x0/0xab
> > > 
> > >  [<c010f411>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
> > > 
> > > Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70 0d 5a f6 00 00 00 00 00 
> 00 00 00 00 
> > > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 21 00 00 00 00 00 
> > > <00> 4e
> > > f7 ac 41 c8 a8 af 41 61 21 4c 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00
> > > 
> > > I'm just starting to play with xen, so I haven't figured 
> out much of 
> > > the debugging stuff yet.  If someone can point me in the right 
> > > direction though, I'd be happy to try to collect some 
> more data if 
> > > there's anything that would be useful.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Paul Larson
> > > 
> > > 
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