Re: Cannot boot PVH dom0 with big initrd

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 10:32:47AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 13.02.2026 05:02, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > After fixing the xhci crash, I hit another issue - booting with 236MB
> > initrd doesn't work, I get:
> > 
> >     (XEN) [    3.151856] *** Building a PVH Dom0 ***
> >     ...
> >     (XEN) [    3.593940] Unable to allocate memory with order 0!
> >     (XEN) [    3.597110] Failed to setup Dom0 physical memory map
> >     (XEN) [    3.599884] 
> >     (XEN) [    3.602482] ****************************************
> >     (XEN) [    3.605272] Panic on CPU 0:
> >     (XEN) [    3.607928] Could not construct d0
> >     (XEN) [    3.610692] ****************************************
> >     (XEN) [    3.613463] 
> >     (XEN) [    3.616035] Reboot in five seconds...
> >     (XEN) [    8.626565] Resetting with ACPI MEMORY or I/O RESET_REG.
> > 
> > Full console log: 
> > https://gist.github.com/marmarek/c9dbc87bf07b76f2899781755762f565
> > 
> > If I skip initrd, then it boots just fine (but dom0 is not happy about
> > that). 164MB initrd failed too, but 13MB started ok.
> > Just in case, I tried skipping XHCI console, but it didn't change
> > anything.
> 
> You may want to give [1] a try, minimally up to patch 11 (patches 01
> and 02 are unrelated, so could be omitted as well).

I've tested with the full series, and yes, it does fix booting PVH dom0
on this hardware. The console log looks like this now:
https://gist.github.com/marmarek/7a418274520d66468908a1f1ff56aede

Thanks!

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab

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