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Re: [Xen-devel] SLES10 Big smp HPET domain_crash() c/s 13161

To: "Woller, Thomas" <thomas.woller@xxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] SLES10 Big smp HPET domain_crash() c/s 13161
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:32:30 +0000
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On 29/12/06 3:25 pm, "Woller, Thomas" <thomas.woller@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>> This should be easily reproducible. I'll take a look -- I
>> expect the hpet code just needs some 'loosening' in what it accepts.
> thanks. repo'ed on VT and AMD-V, but not tried on 32bpae hv.
> The BUG() in the SPT common.c code is interesting. FYI, I tried adding
> additional shadow_memory in guest config, but that didn't help. seems
> like a domain_crash() in the hpet code causes an eventual SPT BUG(), at
> least on my 2 test machines w/ 64bit hv.
>  -- Tom

Default action on domain crash is to restart/reboot the domain. And there
seems to be a shadow bug which currently guarantees that HVM domain reboot
will crash the host. I expect it'll be quickly fixed next week when Tim is
back.

 -- Keir



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