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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: Xen dom0 linux kernel 3.1 boot failure ptwr_emulate: cou
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 01:17:09PM +0000, Tobias Heinlein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2013pfoley <2013pfoley <at> tjhsst.edu> writes:
> > [..]
> >
> > [ 0.000000] last_pfn = 0x63b5ef max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
> > [ 0.000000] last_pfn = 0xdf62d max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
> > [ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [ffff8800000f4f80] f4f80
> > (XEN) mm.c:945:d0 Error getting mfn 100 (pfn 5555555555555555) from L1
> > entry 8000000000100461 for l1e_owner=0, pg_owner=0
> > (XEN) mm.c:5046:d0 ptwr_emulate: could not get_page_from_l1e()
> > [ 0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
> > (null)
> > [ 0.000000] IP: [<ffffffff81008a5a>] xen_set_pte+0x3a/0x1f0
> > [ 0.000000] PGD 0
> > [ 0.000000] Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP
> > [ 0.000000] CPU 0
> > [ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
> > [ 0.000000]
> > [ 0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.0 #4 HP ProLiant
> > DL380 G6
>
> I get the exact same error here. Reading from your output, it seems we have
> the
> same hardware; I have this problem on a HP ProLiant DL380 G6, too.
>
> After a wild hint from a guy on ##xen to play around with the BIOS settings, I
> was able to narrow down the problem to a setting called "MPS Table Mode". It
> is
> set to "Full Table APIC" by default (with which the crash occurs), but when
> it's
> set to "Disabled" Xen boots the kernel just fine.
>
> FWIW, the help text of the setting is: "Multi Processor Specification (MPS)
> Table / APIC Setting is used for interrupt routing. Certain unsupported
> operating systems may require setting the MPS Table Mode to APIC Disabled."
Oh nice. What does you /proc/interrupts look like compared to baremetal?
>
> (BTW, the kernel itself boots fine without Xen. So I'm not sure if this
> belongs
> to the LKML at all.)
It does not. But CC-ing xen-devel here for further tracking.
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