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RE: [Xen-devel] can't create any more pv-on-hvm domains after~38under 3.

To: "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] can't create any more pv-on-hvm domains after~38under 3.3-testing
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:55:12 +1100
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> 
> On 03/12/2008 11:27, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 
> > Alternatively it could be a combination of the gplpv drivers and
netback
> > or blkback. I'm pretty sure that I had the problem before I started
> > testing pvscsi...
> >
> > The machine I am testing on will be busy for the rest of the night,
but
> > tomorrow I'll do some testing and see what happens, unless you can
> > suggest a way I could discover what those pages belong to in the
> > meantime?
> 
> Unfortunately it's a bit of a pain in the butt since we don't have
full
> page
> tracking in Xen -- we only know that *someone* *somewhere* has that
page
> mapped for *some* purpose. Indeed even with more tracking Xen can only
> really tell you which domain holds the reference, and that's bound to
be
> dom0 (unless this is a bogus refcounting bug in Xen itself).
> 
> I would suggest dumping addresses of interesting control pages in your
> backend drivers (some can log that already if built with debugging I
> think),
> then match up the address of the remaining page in the zombie domain.
> 

Forgot to ask too, would a page left like this be the cause of the
domains refusing to die too?

James

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