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Re: [Xen-devel] dom0 linux 3.6.0-rc4, crash due to ballooning althoug dom0_mem=X, max:X set



On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 06:37:57PM +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> Hi Konrad,
> 
> This seems to happen only on a intel machine i'm trying to setup as a 
> development machine (haven't seen it on my amd).
> It boots fine, i have dom0_mem=1024M,max:1024M set, the machine has 2G of mem.

Is this only with Xen 4.2? As, does Xen 4.1 work?
> 
> Dom0 and guest kernel are 3.6.0-rc4 with config:

If you back out:

f393387d160211f60398d58463a7e65
Author: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Fri Aug 17 16:43:28 2012 -0400

    xen/setup: Fix one-off error when adding for-balloon PFNs to the P2M.

Do you see this bug? (Either with Xen 4.1 or Xen 4.2)?

> [*] Xen memory balloon driver
> [*]   Scrub pages before returning them to system
> 
> From 
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Do%EF%BB%BFm0_Memory_%E2%80%94_Where_It_Has_Not_Gone 
> , I thought this should be okay
> 
> But when trying to start a PV guest with 512MB mem, the machine (dom0) 
> crashes with the stacktrace below (complete serial-log.txt attached).
> 
> From the:
> "mapping kernel into physical memory
> about to get started..."
> 
> I would almost say it's trying to reload dom0 ?
> 
> 
> [  897.161119] device vif1.0 entered promiscuous mode
> mapping kernel into physical memory
> about to get started...
> [  897.696619] xen_bridge: port 1(vif1.0) entered forwarding state
> [  897.716219] xen_bridge: port 1(vif1.0) entered forwarding state
> [  898.129465] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [  898.132209] kernel BUG at drivers/xen/balloon.c:359!
> [  898.132209] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP 

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