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Re: [Xen-devel] DomU crash during migration when suspending source domai
Is this with a 2.6.16 guest from 3.0.4? This would most likely be a CPU
hotplug issue in Linux, but we did so lots of testing of that...
-- Keir
On 14/2/07 03:42, "Graham, Simon" <Simon.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just run into an odd DomU crash doing live migration of a 4-VCPU domain (with
> 3.0.4 but the code looks the same in 2.6.18/unstable to me) - the actual panic
> is attached at the end of this, but the bottom line is that the code in
> cache_remove_shared_cpu_map (in arch/i385/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c) is
> attempting to clean up the cache info for a processor that does not yet have
> this info setup - the code is dereferencing a pointer in the cpuid4_info[]
> array and looking at the dump I can see that this is NULL.
>
> My working theory here is that we attempted the migration waaay early and the
> initialization of the array of cache info pointers was not setup for all
> processors yet; it would be relatively easy to protect against this by
> checking for NULL, but I'm not sure if this is the correct solution or not --
> if anyone is familiar with this code and can comment on an appropriate fix I'd
> be grateful.
>
> One thing I'm really not sure about is the timing of marking the CPUs up with
> respect to the trace re initializing CPUs (see console output below) -- I can
> see that the four VCPUs are setup in the cpu_sys_devices array (which is setup
> by the code that outputs the 'Initializing CPU#n' trace) but the array of
> cache info structures only has an entry for VCPU 0:
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