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[Xen-devel] Re: L1[0x1fb] = 0000000000000000 which faults on one type of machine but on another works?


  • To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>, <andrew.thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <keir.xen@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:32:16 +0000
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On 16/03/2011 22:19, "Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK, so I've come up a fix that is a back-port of how 2.6.38 does it
> which is that it removes the check I mentioned above and in xen_set_fixmap
> we set the FIX_APIC_BASE to actually point to a dummy ioapic_mapping.
> It is 7cb068cf1ba90425e12f3a7b3caed9d018fa9b8c in for-2.6.32/bug-fixes
> 
> Gianni, you might want to check this out in case it fixes the problem you
> are experiencing.
> 
> But one thing I can't understand is why on one machine (IBM x3850)
> I get this crash, while another one with the same pagetable contents
> (L1 has nothing for 0x1fb) it works just fine? I added a panic and used
> the Xen hypervisor kdb to manually inspect the pagetable, and it has
> the same contents as the IBM x3850 -but it boots fine with this invalid value.
> Any ideas?

Could the native_apic_read() come from ACPI DSDT of that particular machine
type (x3850)?

 K.



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