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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Updating to xen-unstable... results in Xenfreez

To: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Updating to xen-unstable... results in Xenfreeze
From: Matt Chapman <matthewc@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:30:57 -0600
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Dan,

5730 works okay for me.

The problem seems to be cset 5812...  which adds a call to
do_softirq in scrub_heap_pages.

Matt


On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 04:53:32PM -0700, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort 
Collins) wrote:
> It appears the problem arises on xen-unstable somewhere
> between cset 5705 and 5730.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> > Of Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)
> > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 5:44 PM
> > To: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: Updating to xen-unstable... 
> > results in Xenfreeze
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) 
> > > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 4:29 PM
> > > To: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Updating to xen-unstable... results in Xen freeze
> > > 
> > > I just updated xen-ia64-unstable to merge in the
> > > xen-unstable tip.  Both xen-unstable** and xen-ia64-unstable
> > > worked fine separately, but when combined, Xen freezes
> > > in scrub_heap_pages while calling do_softirq.  Some
> > > subtle interaction between recent changesets in the two
> > > trees, maybe?
> > > 
> > > So, tip of xen-ia64-unstable.hg is now broken.  Anybody
> > > (with a hardware debugger) want to try to reproduce this
> > > and look into it further?
> > > 
> > > Dan
> > > 
> > > Note: xen-unstable required some minor syntactic cleanup
> > > to handle an new extra unused argument to alloc_domheap_pages.
> > 
> > I spent another hour trying to isolate this without much luck
> > and need to leave now.  It appears that my successful run
> > of xen-unstable tip was mistaken though (must have tried
> > the wrong bits :-(... so it could be any change in xen-unstable
> > in the last two weeks that is causing the problem.
> > 
> > Binary version searching with hg seems to be untrustworthy...
> > sometimes I am not getting the version I thought I was getting.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
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