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Re: [Xen-devel] ACPI-Tables corrupted?

To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] ACPI-Tables corrupted?
From: Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:48:04 +0200
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On 07/29/2010 08:39 AM, Keir Fraser wrote:
On 29/07/2010 07:19, "Juergen Gross"<juergen.gross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

What is the crash? And do you see any indiciation that x2APIC is turned
on? Do provide a serial log please.

Log is attached.

I did some more testing. The problem occurred on a Nehalem-EX system. I tried
the same on a Nehalem-EP system and all was okay. I suspect some further
problems in the ACPI tables of the EX system now. I'm not too familiar with
ACPI tables. Anything I can do for further analysis?

Okay I think now that the crash is legitimate. The easy fix is that we
should reinstate the DMAR before kexec'ing the crash kernel. I'll look into
doing a patch to the hypervisor later today.

Thanks!
BTW: Do you understand why the EP system has no problems with the patched DMAR
entry?

Juergen

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