[Xen-devel] [PATCHv10 0/9] Xen: extend kexec hypercall for use with pv-ops kernels
Daniel Kiper
daniel.kiper at oracle.com
Thu Nov 7 16:41:38 EST 2013
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:25:33PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 07/11/13 21:16, Daniel Kiper wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 02:49:37PM +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> >> The series (for Xen 4.4) improves the kexec hypercall by making Xen
> >> responsible for loading and relocating the image. This allows kexec
> >> to be usable by pv-ops kernels and should allow kexec to be usable
> >> from a HVM or PVH privileged domain.
> >>
> >> I have now tested this with a Linux kernel image using the VGA console
> >> which was what was causing problems in v9 (this turned out to be a
> >> kexec-tools bug).
> >>
> >> The required patch series for kexec-tools will be posted shortly and
> >> are available from the xen-v7 branch of:
> > In general it works. However, quite often I am not able to execute panic
> > kernel. Machine hangs with following message:
> >
> > (XEN) Domain 0 crashed: Executing crash image
> >
> > gdb shows:
> >
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0 0xffff82d0801a0092 in do_nmi_crash (regs=<optimized out>) at crash.c:113
> > #1 0xffff82d0802281d9 in nmi_crash () at entry.S:666
> > #2 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> > (gdb)
> >
> > Especially second bt line scares me... ;-)))
>
> Why? This is completely normal. If you look in crash.c at that line, it
> is a for (;;) halt(); loop
I thought more about this:
#1 0xffff82d0802281d9 in nmi_crash () at entry.S:666
Look at the end of this line... ;-)))
> How are you hooking gdb up?
I am doing tests in QEMU and using QEMU's -gdb option.
> > I have not been able to identify why NMI was activated because
> > stack is completely cleared. I tried to record execution in gdb
> > but it stops with following message:
>
> NMIs are used for cpu shootdown of the non-crashing cpus. Again, this
> is not touched by the series.
Ahh... It makes sens. However, why machine hangs at this stage? Hmmm...
CPU sending NMIs receives one and instead of ignoring it halts itself?
Daniel
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