Re: [Xen-devel] Xen Hypervisor start fail when system memory more than 64GB

[benian <bestwish.happiness@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pasi

I finally boot up successfully by simply modified  the kernel config  item CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=32 to CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=128 (just choose a random value >72 ),

then rebuild the kernel-2.6.32 , and everything is ok.

By the way, i 've done many test and i finally found that 

if unallocated memory(total - dom0 ) >32GB, boot up would be failed in my environment.

for example, after I modified the kernel config, hypervisor boot normally and dom0 get 72GB. 

If i add dom0_mem= 32G(unallocated 40G) to grub option, hypervisor boot fail again, 

and if dom0_mem= 41G(unallocated 31G), hypervisor boot normally again. 

So , might it be a problem of xen-4.0 that unable to handle unallocated memory >32GB?

Regards,

Ben

2010/8/12 Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:08:25PM +0800, benian wrote:
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>    My environment is xen-4.0.0 + pvops2.6.32 kernel + fedora12
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>    I can run xen hypervisor smoothly when system memory below 64G
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>    But if I plug 4GB more memory to my server, XEN hypervisor start fail then
>    crash and restart automatically.
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>    The final screen is some message about memory address which will not be
>    displayed in normal process
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>
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>    I read from XEN 4.0.0 features that Xen support 1 TB of RAM per host, so I
>    am not sure what *s wrong with this situation.
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>
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>    Any idea is appreciated and welcome
>
>

How much memory does your dom0 have? ie. what's your dom0_mem= option for xen.gz in grub.conf.
Have you tried different values? ie. 2GB, 4GB, 8GB?

Also setup a serial console so you can figure out if it's the Xen hypervisor or dom0 kernel crashing:
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenSerialConsole

and more info about troubleshooting pvops dom0 kernels (also an example about serial console with pvops dom0):
http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps

Those should help.

-- Pasi

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