Re: 2.6.32-rc not booting with Xen-3.2 (bisected)

From: Christian Kujau
Date: Tue Oct 27 2009 - 01:02:33 EST


On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 at 21:20, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> What does this map to in the kernel symbol table?

Hm, I'm not sure how to answer this? Got a hint, please?

Christian.

> > Also, "xm list" takes very long to complete now:
> >
> > $ time xm list sid
> > Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s)
> > sid 906 512 1 --p--- 0.0
> > real 0m10.677s user 0m0.108s sys 0m0.028s
> Hm, that's odd. Never seen that.

The load of the Dom0 with the panicked DomU "running" higher than
usual (3-4 instead of ~0) and xenstored is spinning and waiting for
(causing?) disk I/O. This is not the case when the DomU is runing just
fine. I didn't strace xenstored yet, because I don't want to risk
killing the whole Xen box.

Christian.
--
BOFH excuse #73:

Daemons did it
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