Re: Cannot boot xen DomU > 2.6.23.1

2008-01-20 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
xming wrote: Thanks, that answers that particular question; the vcpu is blocked waiting for something to happen, which probably means it missed the event which was supposed to wake it up. Why is another question. At least there's a workaround, and that workaround gives me some clue where to loo

Re: Cannot boot xen DomU > 2.6.23.1

2008-01-20 Thread xming
On Jan 20, 2008 7:37 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xming wrote: > > ok I have done some of them, but I still don't know what I should be looking > > at. Do you mean code related to xen or code related to > > have_vcpu_info_placement? > > Please be patient with me :) > > > >

Re: Cannot boot xen DomU > 2.6.23.1

2008-01-20 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
xming wrote: ok I have done some of them, but I still don't know what I should be looking at. Do you mean code related to xen or code related to have_vcpu_info_placement? Please be patient with me :) I just paste some of the result (around those addresses) here: Thanks, that answers that pa

Re: Cannot boot xen DomU > 2.6.23.1

2008-01-20 Thread xming
On Jan 18, 2008 6:26 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Would it be possible to map the eip and some top parts of the stack back > >> to kernel symbols? Seems to be the same place in both traces, which is > >> interesting. > Do "nm -n vmlinux" on the kernel to set an address

Re: Cannot boot xen DomU > 2.6.23.1

2008-01-18 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
xming wrote: Would it be possible to map the eip and some top parts of the stack back to kernel symbols? Seems to be the same place in both traces, which is interesting. Can you tell me how, or show me some pointers? Do "nm -n vmlinux" on the kernel to set an address sorted list of

Re: Cannot boot xen DomU > 2.6.23.1

2008-01-18 Thread xming
On Jan 18, 2008 5:19 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First of all this patch solves the lock-ups, it works as advertised :) > > OK, good. I guess events are getting lost somewhere with vcpu_info > placement. > Would it be possible to map the eip and some top parts of the

Re: Cannot boot xen DomU > 2.6.23.1

2008-01-18 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
xming wrote: OK, I misunderstood your original report to mean that something was complaining about "too much" output. You're saying that lots of console output seems to lock the domain. Sorry about that, and yes that is the case. I've had a report about heavy disk IO seems to lock up

Re: Cannot boot xen DomU > 2.6.23.1

2008-01-18 Thread xming
> OK, I misunderstood your original report to mean that something was > complaining about "too much" output. You're saying that lots of console > output seems to lock the domain. Sorry about that, and yes that is the case. > I've had a report about heavy disk IO seems to lock up as well. Perhap

Re: Cannot boot xen DomU > 2.6.23.1

2008-01-17 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
xming wrote: The symptom is (with a lot of subjective judgment) when there is a lot (or too quick) output on the console of the domU (hvc0 connected with either "xm crea file.cfg -c" or "xm cons id") the whole PV domU hangs. It will really hang at random places, sometimes right after init and som

Re: Cannot boot xen DomU > 2.6.23.1

2008-01-17 Thread xming
On Jan 17, 2008 6:15 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uh, that's very strange. That patch fixes an outright bug, unless > you're using one specific changeset out of the xen-unstable mercurial > tree. What version of Xen are you using? Is it one you've built from > xenbits, o

Re: Cannot boot xen DomU > 2.6.23.1

2008-01-17 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
xming wrote: Hi, I finally found the piece of code that prevents me from booting Xen DomU with vallina kernel > 2.6.23.1. The problem is that with every kernel (> 2.6.32.1 including 2.6.24 RCs) will just hang with "too much" console activity. Sometimes (well most of the time) boot msg is too mu

Cannot boot xen DomU > 2.6.23.1

2008-01-17 Thread xming
Hi, I finally found the piece of code that prevents me from booting Xen DomU with vallina kernel > 2.6.23.1. The problem is that with every kernel (> 2.6.32.1 including 2.6.24 RCs) will just hang with "too much" console activity. Sometimes (well most of the time) boot msg is too much. When I can