RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: Important Xen/ia64 domU/vbd fix committed

["Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Horms,
        Did you use the latest xen-ia64-unstable.hg? Several days I sent out a 
patch to accommodate following Dan's patch, that disable CONFIG_VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP 
when building xen0 kernel. You can find the background at:

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-ia64-devel/2006-01/msg00007.html 

        Currently it's impossible for vbd to work with virtual memmap on.

Thanks,
Kevin

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>[mailto:xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Horms
>Sent: 2006年1月10日 17:53
>To: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: Important Xen/ia64 domU/vbd fix committed
>
>"Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> It won't work for NUMA machines, but we can worry about that later.
>> In the meantime, domU is much much more stable.  I doubt that
>> this is the "last bug" we will find affecting domU stability,
>> but it was a tough one.  Thanks very much to Matt for isolating
>> the problem!
>
>Hi Dan, Hi All,
>
>sorry for the fishing-for-clues nature of this post.
>
>I've been scratching my head for a while over oopses in the vbd, and
>this afternnon my colleague Yamahatta-san pointed me in the direction of
>your post, which I had previously missed.
>
>I am seeing a oops in the loopback layer because of accessing memory off
>the end of the world, as your problem description talks about. However,
>I am still seeing the same problem with your fix.
>
>In a nutshell, the end of memory seems to be at 0x000000007f00000
>
>(XEN) domain mem: type=2, attr=0x8,
>range=[0x0000000008000000-0x0000000008100000) (1MB)
>(XEN) domain mem: type=13, attr=0x8,
>range=[0x0000000008100000-0x000000000820000 0) (1MB)
>(XEN) domain mem: type=7, attr=0x8,
>range=[0x0000000008200000-0x0000000027000000) (494MB)
>(XEN) domain mem: type=7, attr=0x8,
>range=[0x000000007e000000-0x000000007f000000) (16MB)
>(XEN) domain mem: type=12, attr=0x8000000000000001,
>range=[0x00000ffffc000000-0x 0000100000000000) (64MB)
>
>Howver, I have
>
>Virtual mem_map starts at 0xa0007fffff90c000
>
>And the loopback code ends up trying to access a0007fffff93eea0, which
>is off the end of the world. I strongly suspect this is a direct result
>of me having NUMA enabled.
>
>As its the end of the day (well the hacking part of it anwyay), before
>seeing if the box can be booted without NUMA enabled I thought I'd ask
>if this is indeed the cause of the problem. And for some indication of
>how difficult it might be to fix.
>
>--
>Horms
>
>
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