Re: [Xen-devel] hvm domain crash

[Karl Rister <kmr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

After doing quite a bit of testing I came upon something repeatable.  When 
using 4way with 2GB sometimes it would work and sometimes not.  With 8way 4GB 
it was much more consistent and I was able to narrow it down to a single 
point.  With 3840 MB I can boot without problems, if I increase the memory to 
3841 it will not boot.  Something interesting is that very close (< 6MB over) 
I actually get slightly different progress before crashing as opposed to 
always in the same place.  If I am way over (say I put in 4096) it always 
crashes after the "Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed" message.  If I 
am closer (like 3841) I can actually get to the point of seeing a few init 
scripts run before it crashes.  If I am at something like 3844 it tends to 
crash right after udev which immediately follows the "Freeing..." message.

Karl

On Thursday 21 September 2006 4:55 pm, Keir Fraser wrote:
> That's quite a big CR3 value. How much memory does this guest have?
>
>  -- Keir
>
> On 21/9/06 10:56 pm, "Karl Rister" <kmr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > (XEN) Invalid CR3 value=10f780000domain_crash_sync called from vmx.c:1679
> > (XEN) Domain 5 (vcpu#1) crashed on cpu#4:
> > (XEN) ----[ Xen-3.0-unstable  x86_64  debug=n  Not tainted ]----
> > (XEN) CPU:    4
> > (XEN) RIP:    0010:[<ffffffff8017680c>]
> > (XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000000293   CONTEXT: hvm
> > (XEN) rax: 000000010f780000   rbx: 0000000000000001   rcx:
> > 0000000000000000 (XEN) rdx: ffff81010f780000   rsi: 0000000000000000  
> > rdi: ffff81010fc6db5c (XEN) rbp: ffffffff803f3000   rsp: ffff81010fc6fb48
> >   r8:  0000000000000000 (XEN) r9:  0000000000000000   r10:
> > 0000000000000000   r11: 0000000000000000 (XEN) r12: ffff81010fb39a80  
> > r13: 0000000000000000   r14: ffff81010fc6d510 (XEN) r15: ffff81010fc66ac0
> >   cr0: 000000008005003b   cr4: 00000000000006e0 (XEN) cr3:
> > 000000015f4c1000   cr2: 0000000000000000
> > (XEN) ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 0000   gs: 0000   ss: 0018   cs: 0010
> >
> > The domain was running with 4 VCPUs and had previously completed the test
> > on a single VCPU and 2 VCPU configurations.  The domain was running a
> > baremetal 2.6.16.29 kernel.  Output from 'xm info' is:

-- 
Karl Rister
IBM Linux Performance Team
kmr@xxxxxxxxxx
(512) 838-1553 (t/l 678)

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