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Re: [Xen-devel] pvops dom0 work roadmap

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] pvops dom0 work roadmap
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:54:42 +0300
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:19:48AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 08/19/09 06:26, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > I found three issues with 2.6.30-rc3-tip (xen-tip/master):
> >  - if you don't have CONFIG_HIBERNATION set it hangs at startup on the VGA 
> > init code (right after "about to get started").  I played
> >    with turning CONFIG_SWAP off, which in turn unselects _HIBERNATION off.
> >   
> 
> Oh, interesting.
> 
> >  - if you set CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y you get a nice big page fault right 
> > at the startup (doesn't even get to 'about to get started' message).
> >   
> 
> I have a tentative fix for this in rebase/master.
> 
> >  - poweroff doesn't turn the machine off (but I haven't verified whether 
> > the machine normally powers off with a non-Xen 2.6.30-rc3-tip kernel
> >    so this might be an operator errro).
> >   
> 
> I've found that's fairly erratic even on native.  But I guess its likely
> to be something to do with ACPI.  Though I would have thought that Xen
> would have the responsibility for poweroff when the dom0 kernel
> terminates itself.
> 

I have the same problem (like I already reported earlier). 
rebase/master 2.6.31-rc6 doesn't poweroff, with Xen 3.4.1.

Same kernel booted on baremetal without Xen does poweroff just fine.

-- Pasi

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