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Re: [Xen-devel] system crashing while testing GPLPV drivers

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] system crashing while testing GPLPV drivers
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:19:26 +0000
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Do you get a backtrace?

 -- Keir

On 26/01/2009 01:10, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am rewriting the TX path in the GPLPV drivers and in its current form
> I am readily able to crash the system (eg Dom0 and everything else
> running) from DomU.
> 
> xen is 3.3.1, linux is at most a week behind the 3.3.1 release date.
> 
> My Windows DomU boots up, fails to get an IP address (yes, the TX path
> is broken), and then a short time later the system has rebooted.
> 
> I don't know exactly what is causing it, but I suspect that I'm handing
> netback some badly formed buffers or something and causing a bug check
> in Dom0.
> 
> James
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