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Re: [Xen-devel] Tapdisk failures / kernel general protection fault at xe

To: Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Tapdisk failures / kernel general protection fault at xen 4.0.2rc3 / kernel pvops 2.6.32.36
From: Gerd Jakobovitsch <gerd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:05:19 -0300
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Hello Daniel:

I applied the patch and the bug at VM startup was solved. Thank you for your help.

Regards

Gerd

On 04/14/2011 02:43 PM, Daniel Stodden wrote:
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 12:38 -0400, Daniel Stodden wrote:
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 09:15 -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 06:02:13PM -0300, Gerd Jakobovitsch wrote:
I'm trying to run several VMs (linux hvm, with tapdisk:aio disks at
a storage over nfs) on a CentOS system, using the up-to-date version
of xen 4.0 / kernel pvops 2.6.32.x stable. With a configuration
without (most of) debug activated, I can start several instances -
I'm running 7 of them - but shortly afterwards the system stops
responding. I can't find any information on this.
First time I see it.
Activating several debug configuration items, among them
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, I get an exception as soon as I try to start up a
VM. The system reboots.
Oooh, and is the log below from that situation?

Daniel, any thoughs?
---
          Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
          This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
          of memory corruption.

Stunning. Our I/O page allocator is a sort of twisted mempool. Unless
the allocation is explicitly modified in sysfs/, everything should stay
pinned. We might be just tripping over debug code alone, but I didn't
figure it out yet.
Ah, that's just missing Dominic's spinlock fix.

http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/dstodden/linux.git;a=commit;h=a765257af7e28c41bd776c3e03615539597eb592

Daniel




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