Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] x86/smpboot: Make logical package management more robust

[Max Vozeler <max@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Thomas,

there is a problem booting recent kernels on some Xen domUs hosted by
provider JiffyBox. 

The kernel seems to crash just after logging 
[    0.038700] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code                          

We started seeing this with 4.9.2 and bisecting the 4.9 stable kernels
determined that this commit introduced the problem. Reverting it from 4.9.2
makes the kernel boot again.

Older kernels (starting from 3.16 up to and including 4.9.1) were running
fine in this setup. But recent mainline (tested 4.12-rc3) and 4.9.x both
fail to boot there.

Unfortunately we have no detailed information about the hypervisor or 
setup and the provider is not very forthcoming with details. I'm attaching
dmesg of a successful boot (4.9.2 with this commit reverted).

It shows a fairly old XEN version:

[    0.000000] Xen version: 3.1.2-416.el5 (preserve-AD)

Any ideas? 

Thanks and kind regards,

        Max

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