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xen-ppc-devel
Re: [XenPPC] [PATCH/RFC] Schedule idle domain on secondary processors
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:02:58AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >It is quite stable in that the secondary processors reliably join the
> >idle domain and wait for free pages to scrub, handling 0x980
> >interrupts
> >with no problem.
>
> What's this 980 exception?
Perhaps my phrasing is bad. I was referring to the hypervisor
decrementor interrupt (hdec).
> >However, the domU's sometimes hang during initialization. When the
> >domU hangs, it seems the whole machine freezes, including the serial
> >console.
>
> Most common cause of this is hanging the U3/U4. Do you have a
> hardware debugger to see where this happens?
I had a friend take a look at the state of cpu 0, but everything seems ok.
It looks like there is a race and occasionally one of the secondary
processors is hanging the U4.
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