Re: [Xen-devel] Crash during boot in Debian lenny default dom0 kernel (2.6.26-2-xen-686)

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 25.02.10 12:46 >>>
>Given that this is already in a major distribution, is there any way
>we can fail gracefully if someone's running this kernel?  I'm not
>familiar enough with the MSI to know if this is possible, or what a
>good set of "sanity checks" would be for failing the hypercall.

Checking for a suitably aligned and within PADDR_BITS range would
certainly be doable, but I question the sense. Such a check would
prevent the crash, but it wouldn't guarantee the system would work
(and may result in more subtle crashes).

Jan


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