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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Mini-OS update of events initialisation


  • To: Grzegorz Milos <gm281@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:45:25 +0000
  • Delivery-date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:45:41 -0800
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
  • Thread-index: AccJUy1Ia44hLXVGEduESQANk04WTA==
  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Mini-OS update of events initialisation



On 15/11/06 7:39 pm, "Grzegorz Milos" <gm281@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What happens is that after a while, usually in memory initialisation
> stage, but at fairly random place MiniOS gets "restarted" i.e.
> start_kernel is called again. This leads to a crash as soon as MiniOS
> tries to remap shared info page. It looks like if Xen or xend decided
> that MiniOS domain should have masked the event channels before writing
> to the console page, and reboot it ...

If you enable event delivery before registering a callback handler then your
domain will crash on first event delivery. But then you would be restarted
in a fresh domain with a new shared_info page; wou wouldn't jump back to the
entry code of the existing domain.

 -- Keir



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