Re: xen boot PVH guest with linux 5.6.0-rc4-ish kernel: general protection fault, RIP: 0010:__pv_queued_spin_lock_slowpath

From: Sander Eikelenboom
Date: Thu Mar 05 2020 - 06:04:26 EST


On 05/03/2020 11:18, JÃrgen Groà wrote:
> On 04.03.20 18:52, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>> Hi Juergen,
>>
>> Just tested a 5.6.0-rc4'ish kernel (8b614cb8f1dcac8ca77cf4dd85f46ef3055f8238, so it includes the xen fixes from x86 trees).
>> Xen is the latest xen-unstable, dom0 kernel is 5.5.7.
>>
>> During boot of the PVH guest I got the splat below.
>> With a 5.5.7 kernel the guest boots fine.
>
> There were 2 bugs. I have sent the patches.

Sure ?
Haven't seen them coming in ...

--
Sander


> Interesting, though, that you did see only one of them (I hit the
> same bug as you did only after fixing the xenbus problem).
>
>
> Juergen