[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] pv_ops dom0 kernel failure with ata_piix
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 08:18:45PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 06:52:11PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:47:40AM -0500, Todd Deshane wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Try changing the SATA mode of the disk in the BIOS to either legacy > > > > > > or > > > > > > ATA, depending > > > > > > on what you bios supports. > > > > > > > > > > > > There is still a known issue with some of the AHCI stuff. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm not using AHCI at all.. AHCI (SATA) controller does not have any > > > > > disks > > > > > plugged in. > > > > > > > > > > My (only) disk is attached to IDE/PATA ICH6 controller.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I tried disabling AHCI anyway (even when I'm not using the AHCI SATA > > > > controller), but it didn't help. > > > > > > > > Booting the pv_ops dom0 kernel still fails.. because the IDE/PATA > > > > controller > > > > still gets disabled (just like in the logs above) for some unknown > > > > reason. > > > > > > > > -- Pasi > > > > > > So from the log it looks like you are getting a hard crash? > > > > > > > No, it's not a hard crash.. I'm able to reboot the box with ctrl-alt-del. > > > > > Did you try adding noreboot to the xen command line and then trying > > > to get any more information with sysreq stuff? > > > > > > Another thing that I noticed in the log is: > > > > > > irq 12: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) > > > > > > Is it an smp kernel? I had some weird problems when passing nosmp at > > > one point. > > > > > > > Yep, it is SMP kernel.. > > > > > I don't recognize this crash, those module traces, at least for me were > > > non-fatal and didn't cause a crash. I was normally just dropped to a > > > initramfs prompt in the case when the disk was not detected properly. > > > > > > I was then able to at least look around and check that modules were > > > loaded correctly etc. > > > > > > > The problem seems to be the IDE controller/disk is not detected at all.. > > because the device gets disabled for some reason during ata_piix > > loading/probing.. > > > > That is the only disk I have, so the root partition is on it. > > > > Same kernel works just fine on baremetal without Xen. > > > > So I guess the subject should be 'failure with ata_piix' instead of 'crash'.. > > Anyway, there seems to be problems with ata_piix too.. in addition to AHCI. > > Jeremy: Can you think of anything to try? > I tried booting with "nosmp" dom0 kernel parameter: and now the failing part is like this: xen_allocate_pirq: returning irq 5 for gsi 5 ERROR: Unable to locate IOAPIC for GSI 5 xen_set_ioapic_routing: irq 5 gsi 5 ioapic -1 ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 xen: PCI device 0000:00:1f.1 pin 1 -> irq 5 xen: disable pci device 0000:00:1f.1 Whole log with "nosmp": http://pasik.reaktio.net/xen/pv_ops-dom0-debug/pv_ops-dom0-bootlog-3-nosmp.txt Earlier logs I posted are SMP enabled. -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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