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Re: [Xen-devel] xen.git branch reorg / crash with 2.6.30-rc3 pv_ops dom0

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xen.git branch reorg / crash with 2.6.30-rc3 pv_ops dom0
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:54:04 +0300
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:32:14AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> >I'll try upgrading from dom0/hackery to xen-tip/next and see how it works
> >for me. 
> >  
> 
> Thanks.
> 

It seems latest tree crashes for me (happened yesterday, and also today, just 
rebuilt the latest commits):
http://pasik.reaktio.net/xen/pv_ops-dom0-debug/pv_ops-dom0-bootlog-26-xen331-linux-2.6.30-rc3-crash-no-highpte.txt

Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA      0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
  Normal   0x00001000 -> 0x000229fe
  HighMem  0x000229fe -> 0x00040000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges
    0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009f
    0: 0x00000100 -> 0x00001167
    0: 0x00001268 -> 0x00040000
(XEN) d0:v0: unhandled page fault (ec=0003)
(XEN) Pagetable walk from c1268000:
(XEN)  L3[0x003] = 000000003c8f0001 000008f0
(XEN)  L2[0x009] = 000000003d276067 00001276 
(XEN)  L1[0x068] = 000000003d268061 00001268
(XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S (ff19f70e)
(XEN) Domain 0 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0:
(XEN) ----[ Xen-3.3.1-11.fc11  x86_32p  debug=n  Not tainted ]----
(XEN) CPU:    0
(XEN) EIP:    e019:[<c088adae>]
(XEN) EFLAGS: 00000206   EM: 1   CONTEXT: pv guest
(XEN) eax: 00000000   ebx: 00800000   ecx: 00200000   edx: c1268000
(XEN) esi: 01268000   edi: c1268000   ebp: c086de5c   esp: c086de1c
(XEN) cr0: 8005003b   cr4: 000006f0   cr3: 3c85c000   cr2: c1268000
(XEN) ds: e021   es: e021   fs: e021   gs: e021   ss: e021   cs: e019
(XEN) Guest stack trace from esp=c086de1c:

[root@dom0test linux-2.6-xen]# gdb ./vmlinux
(gdb) x/i 0xc086de1c
0xc086de1c <init_thread_union+3612>:    add    %al,(%eax)

32b PAE dom0, 32b PAE hypervisor. 


> >Btw how does dom0 upstreaming look at the moment? Ingo sent pull request
> >about some changes, and those got merged, but how about the rest? 
> 
> Ingo basically ignored all the Xen changes in the leadup to the merge 
> window, then stomped on my attempt to get them merged with Linus, which 
> was all pretty annoying.  It had the doubly-irritating side-effect of 
> casting doubt over the controversy-free domU changes, so they didn't get 
> merged in the merge window either; by the time Ingo got around to OKing 
> them, the window had closed.  So all that got merged in the end was the 
> must-have bug fixes.
> 

Yeah.. :( I really hope next merge window will be better..

> Linus isn't going to pull any more major functionality changes in the 
> -rc kernels, and certainly isn't going to make an exception for Xen.  So 
> we're stuck with waiting for the .31 merge window.
> 

I think it might be a good idea to start sending the patches already now, so
they get enough review before the .31 merge window.. 

-- Pasi

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