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Re: [Xen-devel] Daily Xen Builds

To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Daily Xen Builds
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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:12:08 -0500
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Ian Pratt wrote:



I can't see why creating a domU would be helped by a swiotlb.
Without it, dom0 crashes. I reported on Bugzilla #168 a couple of days ago the following crash when creating a domU on machines built with PAE:

Fatal DMA error! Please use 'swiotlb=force'
kernel BUG at arch/xen/i386/kernel/pci-dma.c:30 (iommu_bug)!
[<c010ea0b>] iommu_bug+0x3b/0x50
[<c010eb6a>] dma_map_sg+0x14a/0x170
[<c02f5023>] ide_map_sg+0xa3/0xb0
[<c02fe86c>] ide_build_sglist+0x7c/0xd0 [<c02fe8ff>] ide_build_dmatable+0x3f/0x190 [<c02fedda>] ide_dma_setup+0x3a/0xe0 [<c0301120>] __ide_do_rw_disk+0x3d0/0x5a0 [<c02f6f00>] ide_wait_stat+0+30/0x230 [<c02837fc>] as_move_to_dispatch+0xec/0x220 [<c02f5550>] start_request+0x270/0x290 [<c02f581c>] ide_do_request+0x27c/0x470 [<c027940c>] elv_next_request+0x3c/0x1b0 [<c02f5a34>] do_ide_request+0x24/0x30 [<c027c62a>] generic_unplug_device+0x2a/0x70 [<c027c600>] generic_unplug_device+0x0/0x70 [<c02e74b6>] blkio_schedule+0x186/0x190 [<c011e070>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 [<c010a662>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 [<c011e070>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 [<c02e7330>] blkio_schedule+0x0/0x190 [<c0108615>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10 Kernel panic - not syncing: BUG!

Precisely which adaptec card is it, what driver?

SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7901 U320 (rev 10)

This backtrace looks like its doing ide transfers. Have you got active
ide devices in this system?
Actually, the trace was obtained from a machine that has an IDE drive. It was one of two that exhibited this behavior (the other has the SCSI drive), and the only one where I could capture the console log.

Also, please can you rerun this test as the debugging output has been
improved.

I'll do that as soon as I can get the machine back; it is being used to look into another issue at the moment.

Thanks,
Ian



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