[Xen-devel] xm save fails to save all pages

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Subject:	[Xen-devel] xm save fails to save all pages
From:	Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:15:56 +0200
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Hi,

in preparation to support live migration for BS2000 I'm testing my domU (HVM
with PV-drivers) with xm save/restore. I'm running xen 4.0.2 (from SLES11 SP1).

During xm save I see the following line in xend.log:

[2011-10-25 13:25:25 31519] INFO (XendCheckpoint:484) Saving memory pages:iter 1 0%type fail: page 510 mfn 000011fe


I added some diagnostic code to the hypervisor (in arch/x86/domctl.c) and found
that the hypervisor believes gmfn 11fe of the domU is part of the xen heap.

The problem is always reported for gmfn 11fe, regardless of the memory size of
the domU: I tried 1, 2 and 8 GB. The memory page isn't used for anything
special in the domU, there is no problem accessing it or mapping it to dom0
before doing the xm save (or after xm save -c).

When I try to restore the saved domain I can't map gmfn 11fe of the domU any
longer in dom0 (this was the first hint there is a problem at all).

How can a domU memory page be part of the xen heap?


Juergen

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