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Re: [Xen-devel] Unknown interrupt on x86_64 Xen on ES7000 x86_64

To: "Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh" <aravindh.puthiyaparambil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Unknown interrupt on x86_64 Xen on ES7000 x86_64
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:33:10 +0100
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On 8 Aug 2005, at 19:10, Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh wrote:

I am getting an "Unknown Interrupt" message with changeset 6050 on the
ES7000 x86_64 box running x86_64 SLES9 SP2 RC3. The system dies after
that. Any idea why this could be happening?
I am not sure if this is related to
http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122.

Definitely a different bug, but this one shouldn;t be hard to track down. Probably you are talking a page fault very early during boot. I'd suggest working out where this occurs by adding printk statements (probably paging_init() in arch/x86/x86_64/mm.c would be a good place to start).

When I tried the same changeset on my Dell PowerEdge 470 box I am seeing
something totally different and very scary :-)
Is anybody else seeing this?

I think the HPET on your system is not working for some reason! Please try removing the call to init_hpet() from init_platform_timer() in arch/x86/time.c -- just fall back to init_pit(). You should then see 'Platform timer is xxxMHz PIT' rather than 'Platform timer is xxxMHz HPET' in Xen's boot log.

If that fixes your problem (very likely) then we can try and work out why the HPET is failing to work. Perhaps see whether native Linux successfully uses it, for example.

 -- Keir


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