Re: [XenPPC] [PATCH/RFC] Schedule idle domain on secondary processors

[Amos Waterland <apw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:02:58AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >It is quite stable in that the secondary processors reliably join the
> >idle domain and wait for free pages to scrub, handling 0x980  
> >interrupts
> >with no problem.
> 
> What's this 980 exception?

Perhaps my phrasing is bad.  I was referring to the hypervisor
decrementor interrupt (hdec).

> >However, the domU's sometimes hang during initialization.  When the
> >domU hangs, it seems the whole machine freezes, including the serial
> >console.
> 
> Most common cause of this is hanging the U3/U4.  Do you have a
> hardware debugger to see where this happens?

I had a friend take a look at the state of cpu 0, but everything seems ok.
It looks like there is a race and occasionally one of the secondary
processors is hanging the U4.


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