[Fedora-xen] RE: Upgrading Xen machines

Thu Aug 16 12:41:00 UTC 2007

Here is the complete boot up process with the 4gb seg fixup problem if that helps to diagnose the problem. Thank you!

Started domain sec-int-dns
                          Linux version 2.6.20-2925.13.fc7xen (kojibuilder at xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12)) #1 SMP Tue Jul 17 10:38:27 EDT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
sanitize start
sanitize bail 0
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 0000000008800000 end: 0000000008800000 type: 1
 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000008800000 (usable)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
136MB LOWMEM available.
NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             0 ->    34816
  Normal      34816 ->    34816
  HighMem     34816 ->    34816
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->    34816
ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 34544
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro ip=:1.2.3.4:::sec-int-dns:eth0:dhcp 4
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c135d000 soft=c133d000
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Xen reported: 3000.104 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar
... MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES:    8
... MAX_LOCK_DEPTH:          30
... MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS:        2048
... CLASSHASH_SIZE:           1024
... MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES:     8192
... MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS:      16384
... CHAINHASH_SIZE:          8192
 memory used by lock dependency info: 1064 kB
 per task-struct memory footprint: 1200 bytes
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Software IO TLB disabled
vmalloc area: c9000000-f4ffe000, maxmem 2d7fe000
Memory: 114332k/139264k available (2023k kernel code, 16588k reserved, 1077k data, 180k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
    fixmap  : 0xf5315000 - 0xf57fe000   (5028 kB)
    pkmap   : 0xf5000000 - 0xf5200000   (2048 kB)
    vmalloc : 0xc9000000 - 0xf4ffe000   ( 703 MB)
    lowmem  : 0xc0000000 - 0xc8800000   ( 136 MB)
      .init : 0xc130c000 - 0xc1339000   ( 180 kB)
      .data : 0xc11f9fe5 - 0xc1307714   (1077 kB)
      .text : 0xc1000000 - 0xc11f9fe5   (2023 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 7504.32 BogoMIPS (lpj=15008654)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Initializing.
SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
Brought up 1 CPUs
Grant table initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Brought up 1 CPUs
PCI: Fatal: No config space access function found
PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: System does not support PCI
PCI: System does not support PCI
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel:  domain hash size = 128
NetLabel:  protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel:  unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 8752k freed
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14-xen <tigran at veritas.com>
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1187228011.247:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
rtc: IRQ 8 is not free.
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
Xen virtual console successfully installed as xvc0
Event-channel device installed.
usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
i8042.c: No controller found.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP bic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2049
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2050
XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0
Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 759k
Registering block device major 8
blkfront: sda1: barriers enabled
blkfront: sda2: barriers enabled
netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
netfront: device eth0 has copying receive path.
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
SCSI subsystem initialized
register_blkdev: cannot get major 8 for sd
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
4gb seg fixup, process init (pid 1), cs:ip 73:0092da56
4gb seg fixup, process init (pid 1), cs:ip 73:0099e2ee
4gb seg fixup, process init (pid 1), cs:ip 73:0092c75f
4gb seg fixup, process init (pid 1), cs:ip 73:0092c76d
4gb seg fixup, process init (pid 1), cs:ip 73:008e8b6b
4gb seg fixup, process init (pid 1), cs:ip 73:0092c75f
4gb seg fixup, process init (pid 1), cs:ip 73:0092c76d
4gb seg fixup, process init (pid 1), cs:ip 73:00901d7f
4gb seg fixup, process init (pid 1), cs:ip 73:0092c75f
4gb seg fixup, process init (pid 1), cs:ip 73:0092c76d
SELinux:  Disabled at runtime.
SELinux:  Unregistering netfilter hooks
audit(1187228019.543:2): selinux=0 auid=4294967295
audit(1187228073.382:3): audit_backlog_limit=256 old=64 by auid=4294967295
audit(1187228073.774:4): audit_pid=778 old=0 by auid=4294967295
4gb seg fixup, process S28autofs (pid 804), cs:ip 73:0092914b
printk: 129366 messages suppressed.
4gb seg fixup, process newaliases (pid 954), cs:ip 73:00217ce7
printk: 191711 messages suppressed.
4gb seg fixup, process sendmail (pid 962), cs:ip 73:0020d75f
printk: 18 messages suppressed.
4gb seg fixup, process sendmail (pid 962), cs:ip 73:0020d75f
printk: 41 messages suppressed.
4gb seg fixup, process sendmail (pid 962), cs:ip 73:0020d75f
printk: 15 messages suppressed.
4gb seg fixup, process sendmail (pid 962), cs:ip 73:0020d75f

(Right here it keeps repeating the 4gb seg fixup.)

> snip

> When I go to boot the machine I get this: xm create -c xmconfig

> 4gb seg fixup, process S28autofs (pid 825), cs:ip 73:0092914b
> printk: 197950 messages suppressed.
> 4gb seg fixup, process egrep (pid 973), cs:ip 73:008e8149
> printk: 116932 messages suppressed.
> 4gb seg fixup, process sendmail (pid 962), cs:ip 73:004d675f
> printk: 15 messages suppressed.
> 4gb seg fixup, process dhcpd (pid 941), cs:ip 73:00d20d7f
> printk: 108 messages suppressed.
> 4gb seg fixup, process sendmail (pid 962), cs:ip 73:004d675f
> printk: 15 messages suppressed.
> 4gb seg fixup, process named (pid 752), cs:ip 73:002f775f

> snip

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