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

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Tue Oct 27 2009 - 14:18:33 EST


On 10/26/09 22:01, Christian Kujau wrote:
> 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?
>

$ gdb vmlinux
(gdb) x/i 0xffffffff812c50ad

>>> 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.
>

Hm, sounds like a xenstored bug, or something is just pounding on it.
Are there any other domains running, or other busy processes?

J
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