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Re: [Xen-devel] xen.git branch reorg / crash with 2.6.30-rc3 pv_ops dom0
Ian Campbell wrote:
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 13:30 -0400, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Ian Campbell wrote:
Interesting. Curiously its working for me on my machine, but has a
tendency to crash a bit later with a protection fault on an RO page
during memory allocation. I wonder if its related...
Certainly smells similar.
Yeah. The fault in both cases has an error-code of 3, so a write
protect fault. It suggests a pinned page is getting freed into the
general heap for some reason. Except there are no complaints from Xen
about writes into a pagetable, so that makes it look like page is being
made RO but not (left) pinned.
The crash Pasi and I are seeing is pretty early on though, is there any
opportunity for a page table page to have been recycled before
~kernel_physical_mapping_init()? I'd have thought not.
No, sounds unlikely.
I was wondering if perhaps e820_table_start (used by alloc_low_page) had
somehow got initialised to a bogus value such that it was pointing at
the domain builder supplied page tables (hence RO but not marked as
pinned yet).
Well, Xen would know they're pinned, even if the kernel's structures
don't, one would expect to see any completely bogus writes appear on the
Xen console.
There was some unification work in this area around the
beginning of March although I'm pretty such I've had it work much more
recently. (I guess it might not have been merged into a visible branch
until more recently, it's a bit hard to tell with git but I don't think
that's what happened).
Yeah, I think it has been working properly for some since then, though I
think Pasi has been reporting problems since 32-bit dom0 first booted.
My symptoms are a bit all over the place. For a while I was just seeing
writes-to-RO pages, but since I added some debugging to try and work out
where that was happening, I'm now seeing more major pagetable corruption
(like instruction fetches failing because of reserved bits being set in
the pagetable...). So something is stomping pagetable, and I think its
some page being freed.
I think these are somewhat similar to Pasi's symptoms which he said that
disabling HIGHPTE fixed. I see problems independent of the HIGHPTE
setting.
I have best success in causing crashes when scp'ing a 8GB file onto my
XFS /home filesystem. XFS does quite a lot of vmapping, so that may
exacerbate the problem.
I also realized that my Xen doesn't have debug=y set, so I'm probably
missing some information.
J
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