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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen-unstable panic: FATAL PAGE FAULT

To: MaoXiaoyun <tinnycloud@xxxxxxxxxxx>, xen devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen-unstable panic: FATAL PAGE FAULT
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:02:05 +0100
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On 30/08/2010 09:47, "MaoXiaoyun" <tinnycloud@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>        3) Every panic pointer to the same address:  ffff8315ffffffe4, which is
> not a valid page address.
> I printted pages of the domain in assign_pages, which all looks like
> ffff82f60bd64000,  at least
> ffff82f60 is the same.

Yes, well you may not be crashing on a supposed page address. Certainly the
page pointer that relinquish_memory() is working on, and passed to
put_page->free_domheap_pages is valid enough to not cause any of those
functions to crash when dereferencing it. At the moment you really have no
idea what is causing free_heap_pages() to crash.

>        A bit of lost direction to go further.  Thanks.

You need to find out which line of code in free_heap_pages() is crashing,
and what variable it is trying to dereference when it crashes. You have a
nice backtrace with an EIP value, so you can 'objdump -d xen-syms' and
search for the EIP in the disassembly. If you have a debug build of Xen you
can even do 'objdump -S xen-syms' and have the disassembly annotated with
corresponding source lines.

Have you seen this on more than one physical machine? If not, have you run
memtest on the offending machine?

 -- Keir



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