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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] let XEN depend on PAE

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] let XEN depend on PAE
From: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:54:45 +0100
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge schrieb:
> Arnd Hannemann wrote:
>> As paravirtualized xen guests won't work with !X86_PAE, change the
>> Kconfig
>> accordingly.
>>   
> 
> !PAE is supposed to work, but it is a rarely used configuration.  How
> does it fail?
> 
>    J
> 

This is with 2.6.24.2, but latest-git looks the same:
I also tried with 2.6.23 which crashes instantly, without any output of the 
guest.

[    0.599806] 1 multicall(s) failed: cpu 0
[    0.599816]   call  1/2: op=26 arg=[c1051860] result=0
[    0.599825]   call  2/2: op=14 arg=[bf9c7000] result=-22
[    0.599841] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.599851] kernel BUG at arch/x86/xen/multicalls.c:103!
[    0.599861] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[    0.599871] Modules linked in:
[    0.599879]
[    0.599885] Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted (2.6.24.2 #6)
[    0.599895] EIP: 0061:[<c0101b7c>] EFLAGS: 00010202 CPU: 0
[    0.599910] EIP is at xen_mc_flush+0x19c/0x1b0
[    0.599919] EAX: 00000000 EBX: c10510a0 ECX: c1051060 EDX: c1051060
[    0.599930] ESI: 00000002 EDI: 00000001 EBP: c2417c10 ESP: c2417be4
[    0.599940]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: e021
[    0.599951] Process init (pid: 1, ti=c2417000 task=c2416ab0 task.ti=c2417000)
[    0.599960] Stack: c0443c98 00000002 00000002 0000000e bf9c7000 ffffffea 
c1051060 00000200
[    0.599984]        00000067 c193fffc bf9c7000 c2417c18 c0101112 c2417c5c 
c0166dfc c193ce40
[    0.600006]        c193e5c0 c0000000 c193e5c0 00001000 c0000000 c193ce40 
c198e71c c10331cc
[    0.600029] Call Trace:
[    0.600036]  [<c0107a6a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
[    0.600050]  [<c0107b29>] show_stack_log_lvl+0xa9/0xd0
[    0.600062]  [<c0107c1a>] show_registers+0xca/0x1e0
[    0.600074]  [<c0107e4a>] die+0x11a/0x250
[    0.600085]  [<c0108003>] do_trap+0x83/0xb0
[    0.600096]  [<c0108318>] do_invalid_op+0x88/0xa0
[    0.600108]  [<c03e89d2>] error_code+0x72/0x80
[    0.600121]  [<c0101112>] xen_leave_lazy+0x12/0x20
[    0.600134]  [<c0166dfc>] move_page_tables+0x27c/0x300
[    0.600149]  [<c0174762>] setup_arg_pages+0x162/0x2a0
[    0.600162]  [<c019cad3>] load_elf_binary+0x3d3/0x1bd0
[    0.600175]  [<c0173f92>] search_binary_handler+0x92/0x200
[    0.600190]  [<c019b1ef>] load_script+0x1bf/0x200
[    0.600202]  [<c0173f92>] search_binary_handler+0x92/0x200
[    0.600215]  [<c0175bab>] do_execve+0x15b/0x180
[    0.600227]  [<c0104a2e>] sys_execve+0x2e/0x80
[    0.600241]  [<c0106342>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[    0.600253]  =======================
[    0.600259] Code: 24 08 89 44 24 0c 89 74 24 04 c7 04 24 98 3c 44 c0 e8 c9 
36 02 00 8b 45 ec 83 c3 20 8b 90 00 0b 00 00 39 d6 72 c0 e9 04 ff ff ff <0f> 0b 
eb fe 0f 0b eb fe 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bf 00 00 00 00 55
[    0.600370] EIP: [<c0101b7c>] xen_mc_flush+0x19c/0x1b0 SS:ESP e021:c2417be4
[    0.600393] ---[ end trace a686db401f06e173 ]---
[    0.600403] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

full dmesg, config here:
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-02/msg00716.html

Best regards,
Arnd Hannemann


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