[Fedora-xen] Xen 3.4.1 dom0 crash on boot

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:45:57PM +0100, M A Young wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Charles Gruener wrote:
> 
> >Thanks for the help on configuring my boot options.  I apologize that I 
> >forgot to mention I'm using the latest kernel from M. Young, 
> >2.6.31-1.2.65.xendom0.fc12.x86_64.  Here's what I get now that I've done 
> >all of what you've said:
> >
> >...
> >
> >(XEN) *** Serial input -> DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to switch input 
> >to Xen)
> >(XEN) Freed 128kB init memory.
> >(XEN) mm.c:1697:d0 Bad L1 flags 800000
> >(XEN) traps.c:437:d0 Unhandled invalid opcode fault/trap [#6] on VCPU 0 
> >[ec=0000]
> >(XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S
> >(XEN) Domain 0 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0:
> >(XEN) ----[ Xen-3.4.1  x86_64  debug=n  Not tainted ]----
> >(XEN) CPU:    0
> >(XEN) RIP:    e033:[<ffffffff81a017f1>]
> >(XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000000282   EM: 1   CONTEXT: pv guest
> >(XEN) rax: 00000000ffffffea   rbx: ffffffff8182b000   rcx: 00000000001b582b
> >(XEN) rdx: 0000000000000000   rsi: 80000001b582b061   rdi: ffffffff8182b000
> >(XEN) rbp: ffffffff8174ff98   rsp: ffffffff8174fef8   r8:  0000000000000000
> >(XEN) r9:  0000000000000000   r10: 0000000000000000   r11: 0000000000000000
> >(XEN) r12: ffffffff8174ffa8   r13: ffffffff8174ff40   r14: 0000000000000080
> >(XEN) r15: 0000000000000000   cr0: 000000008005003b   cr4: 00000000000026f0
> >(XEN) cr3: 00000001b7208000   cr2: 0000000000000000
> >(XEN) ds: 0000   es: 0000   fs: 0000   gs: 0000   ss: e02b   cs: e033
> >(XEN) Guest stack trace from rsp=ffffffff8174fef8:
> >(XEN)    00000000001b582b 0000000000000000 ffffffff81a017f1 
> >000000010000e030
> >(XEN)    0000000000010082 ffffffff8174ff38 000000000000e02b 
> >ffffffff81a017ed
> >(XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
> >0000000000000000
> >(XEN)    000000000000182b 0000008000000000 ffffffff8100cc87 
> >0000000000000000
> >(XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
> >0000000000000000
> >(XEN)    ffffffff8174ffc8 ffffffff81021271 ffff8182b000007f 
> >000000000000ffff
> >(XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffff8174fff8 
> >ffffffff81a01b49
> >(XEN)    0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 
> >0000000000000000
> >(XEN)    0000000000000000
> >(XEN) Domain 0 crashed: rebooting machine in 5 seconds.
> >
> >Looking through that information, I don't see anything that really helps 
> >me out.  Am I missing something?  Anything else I should try BIOS level 
> >that could shed some light on the nature of the issue or is my best bet to 
> >try booting a debug version of Xen?
> 
> You can dig the vmlinux file out of the debuginfo rpm 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1668157&name=kernel-debuginfo-2.6.31-1.2.65.xendom0.fc12.x86_64.rpm 
> feed it into gdb and see what x/i ffffffff81a017f1 tells you about what 
> code it was trying to run when it crashed.
>

Yes, this will be definitely helpful.

so just do:

gdb vmlinux
x/i ffffffff81a017f1

And paste the output here..

-- Pasi