[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] xenstored crashes with SIGSEGV
Hello Ian, On 18.12.2014 11:17, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 16:13 +0000, Frediano Ziglio wrote: >> Do we have a bug in Xen that affect SSE instructions (possibly already >> fixed after Philipp version) ? > > I've had a niggling feeling of Deja Vu over this which I'd been putting > down to an old Xen on ARM bug in the area of FPU register switching. > > But it seems at some point (possibly even still) there was a similar > issue with pvops kernels on x86, see: > http://bugs.xenproject.org/xen/bug/40 That definitely looks interesting. > Philipp, what kernel are you guys using? The crash "2014-12-06 01:26:21 xenstored[4337]" happened on linux-3.10.46. That kernel is missing v3.10.50-13-gd1cc001: > commit d1cc001905146d58c17ac8452eb96f226767819d > Author: Silesh C V <svellattu@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Jul 23 13:59:59 2014 -0700 > > coredump: fix the setting of PF_DUMPCORE > commit aed8adb7688d5744cb484226820163af31d2499a upstream. which explains why the xmm* registers are not included in the core file. > I also can't quite shake the feeling that there was another much older > issue relating to FPU context switch on x86, but I think that was truly > ancient history (2.6.18 era stuff) Some of those host might still use 3.2, most use 3.10.x, but definitely no 2.6 kernels. Xen-Hypervisor is 4.1.3 If you need anything more, just ask. It might take me some time to answer as I'm on vacation for the next 2 weeks. Thanks again for your help. Philipp _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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