Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen EFI] Impossible to limit the dom0 memory

2018-11-30 Thread msd+xen-de...@msd.im
too (In January I only had 1/8 core available, now I cannot boot but I will discuss this problem in another thread). Do you have more information on the dom0_mem argument problem ? Best regards, Guillaume Le 25/01/2018 à 17:07, [email protected] a écrit : I have installed `linux-image-amd

Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen EFI] Impossible to limit the dom0 memory

2018-12-03 Thread msd+xen-de...@msd.im
Hi Jan, hi Juergen, This needs to be investigated from the kernel side (which I'm afraid I simply don't have the time to help with). If someone can lead me, I can give some of my time to help. I can also provide an access to a server where the problem occurs. Let me know what I can do. I a

[Xen-devel] I only see one CPU core on Xen when booted via grub

2018-01-22 Thread msd+xen-de...@msd.im
Hi, I only see 1 CPU core on Xen 4.9 when booted via grub instead of 8. It's may be related to : - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820807 - https://xenproject.atlassian.net/browse/XEN-42 It is the first server on which I have this problem. I can confirm that : - if I boot Deb

Re: [Xen-devel] I only see one CPU core on Xen when booted via grub

2018-01-23 Thread msd+xen-de...@msd.im
... your report is very likely duplicating earlier ones where the ACPI root point cannot be found without it being properly propagated through by grub from EFI to Xen. Iirc the only way around that is to chainload xen.efi, if the grub used doesn't support the extensions needed to boot Xen via the

[Xen-devel] [Xen EFI] Impossible to limit the dom0 memory

2018-01-23 Thread msd+xen-de...@msd.im
Hi, I have configured Xen to boot directly from EFI (with `efibootmgr`). As explained on the Xen_EFI wiki page, I have added a line "options=" into my file "/boot/efi/EFI/xen/xen.cfg" : ``` # cat /boot/efi/EFI/xen/xen.cfg : [global] default=xen [xen] options=dom0_mem=1G,max:1G kernel=vmlinuz

Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen EFI] Impossible to limit the dom0 memory

2018-01-23 Thread msd+xen-de...@msd.im
Yet you'll need to provide the kernel messages I attached a console log "xen-console-log.txt". Here, Xen crash even without the "dom0_mem=1G,max:1G" option : ``` # cat /boot/efi/EFI/xen/xen.cfg [global] default=xen [xen] options=loglvl=all com1=115200,8n1 console=com1,vga kernel=vmlinuz root=

Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen EFI] Impossible to limit the dom0 memory

2018-01-25 Thread msd+xen-de...@msd.im
Xen doesn't crash at all. With this file, it works, Xen boots : ``` [global] default=xen [xen] options=loglvl=all com1=115200,8n1 console=com1,vga kernel=vmlinuz root=/dev/md2 ro rootdelay=10 noquiet nosplash earlyprintk=xen ramdisk=initrd.img ``` With this file, I have just added "dom0_me

Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen EFI] Impossible to limit the dom0 memory

2018-01-25 Thread msd+xen-de...@msd.im
(With the attached file) Xen doesn't crash at all. With this file, it works, Xen boots : ``` [global] default=xen [xen] options=loglvl=all com1=115200,8n1 console=com1,vga kernel=vmlinuz root=/dev/md2 ro rootdelay=10 noquiet nosplash earlyprintk=xen ramdisk=initrd.img ``` With this file,

Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen EFI] Impossible to limit the dom0 memory

2018-01-25 Thread msd+xen-de...@msd.im
# About the kernel crash Did you read the above? I just wanted to say that I have solved the kernel panic crash that I had before, when you explained "Xen doesn't crash at all. It's the Dom0 kernel which panics". Just for information the crash happens if I put the "console=com1" to the ke

Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen EFI] Impossible to limit the dom0 memory

2018-01-25 Thread msd+xen-de...@msd.im
Guillaume, can you try to get symbol+offset for the values on the stack looking like kernel code addresses (e.g. everything starting with "82")? For sure. Just, can you explain me how I can do this, please ? Guillaume ___ Xen-devel mailing l

Re: [Xen-devel] [Xen EFI] Impossible to limit the dom0 memory

2018-01-25 Thread msd+xen-de...@msd.im
I have installed `linux-image-amd64-dbg` and `binutils`. I can now execute `addr2line -pfi -e vmlinux-4.14.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 `. I have generated a file "commands.txt" with all the addresses after "Guest stack trace from rsp=82003cb0:" in my log file "dom0_crash_with_dom0_memory.txt". I