WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

RE: [Xen-devel] isolinux problems - Intel VT

To: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] isolinux problems - Intel VT
From: "Li, Xin B" <xin.b.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:09:39 +0800
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Delivery-date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:09:53 -0800
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thread-index: AccO0yrYSdiA4OY9R3K5LhbFTKG1BAANbMUg
Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] isolinux problems - Intel VT
>(XEN) (GUEST: 9) Booting from CD-Rom...
>(XEN) (GUEST: 9) Trap (0xC) while in real mode
>(XEN) (GUEST: 9) eax        8220 ecx          30 edx           
>0 ebx      800000
>(XEN) (GUEST: 9) esp       D6914 ebp        200C esi       
>5521E edi       5521E
>(XEN) (GUEST: 9) eip         102 eflags    33002 cs         
>4004 ds            0
>(XEN) (GUEST: 9) es            0 fs            0 uss        
>5321 uesp   FFFA0001
>(XEN) (GUEST: 9) ves        4004 vds        4004 vfs           
>0 vgs           0
>(XEN) (GUEST: 9) trapno        C errno         0
>(XEN) (GUEST: 9) cr0       50032 cr2           0 cr3           
>0 cr4         651
>(XEN) (GUEST: 9) Halt called from %eip 0xD0382
>
>Note the entirely broken stack pointer (uesp).
>
>Using the mini ISO (or alternatively the full first 
>installation medium) provided
>with the openSuSE betas or RC1 is sufficient to reproduce the problem.
>
>Attached patch shows the current state of fixing, which gets 
>things going on
>AMD-V. This is against 3.0.3 (and specifically not cleaned up 
>to apply against
>current -unstable) and known to not address all problems in 
>that area, yet,
>although the fact that things now work on AMD-V indicates that 
>the remaining
>problem(s) is/are likely in VMX specific code, within which, 
>except for the odd
>check_for_null_selector() (for which I sent a separate mail yesterday,
>unfortunately without having got a reply from any Intel 
>engineer so far), no
>other obvious areas that need fixing have been identified.
>

I'm looking into this.
-Xin

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>