Package: xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-amd64 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
On a dual-processor, quad-core Xeon system, after running successfully for a few days, I created and then started another domU (the 4th one, I think), resulting in a kernel panic requiring a hard reset. After changing dom0-cpus to 1, this problem has not reoccurred. However, using 1 core out of 8 makes this workaround pretty worthless. Syslog: Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: Kernel BUG at drivers/xen/core/evtchn.c:481 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: CPU 1 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: Modules linked in: xt_tcpudp xt_physdev iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables bridge netloop button ac battery ipv6 w83627hf w83781d hwmon_vid i2c_isa loop psmouse i2c_i801 serial_core serio_raw i2c_core evdev pcspkr shpchp pci_hotplug ext3 jbd mbcache dm_mirror dm_snapshot dm_mod raid1 md_mod ide_generic sd_mod ide_cd cdrom ata_piix piix libata scsi_mod floppy generic ide_core ehci_hcd uhci_hcd e1000 fan Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: Pid: 37, comm: xenwatch Not tainted 2.6.18-5-xen-amd64 #1 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: RIP: e030:[<ffffffff80360ee3>] [<ffffffff80360ee3>] retrigger+0x26/0x3e Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: RSP: e02b:ffff8801ef5bfd88 EFLAGS: 00010046 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000009280 RCX: ffffffffff578000 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: RDX: 0000000000000037 RSI: ffff8801ef5bfd30 RDI: 0000000000000125 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: RBP: ffffffff804ce700 R08: ffff8801ef4eeef0 R09: ffff88017e5f2500 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: R10: ffff88017e5f2000 R11: ffffffff80360ebd R12: 0000000000000125 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: R13: ffffffff804ce73c R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000008 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: FS: 00002ab373747510(0000) GS:ffffffff804c4080(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: CS: e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: Process xenwatch (pid: 37, threadinfo ffff8801ef5be000, task ffff8801ef59c080) Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: Stack: ffffffff802a0646 ffff88017e5f2500 ffff88017e5f2500 0000000000000000 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: ffff8801ef5bfde0 000000000000020b ffffffff8036da4e 0000000000000000 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: ffffffff8036dec6 ffff8801ef5bfea4 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: Call Trace: Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff802a0646>] enable_irq+0x9d/0xbc Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff8036da4e>] __netif_up+0xc/0x15 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff8036dec6>] netif_map+0x2a6/0x2d8 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff8035c227>] bus_for_each_dev+0x61/0x6e Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff803666d0>] xenwatch_thread+0x0/0x145 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff803666d0>] xenwatch_thread+0x0/0x145 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff80368210>] frontend_changed+0x2ba/0x4f9 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff803666d0>] xenwatch_thread+0x0/0x145 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff8028f837>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0x61 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff80365ade>] xenwatch_handle_callback+0x15/0x48 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff803667fd>] xenwatch_thread+0x12d/0x145 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff8028f9fa>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff8028f837>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0x61 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff803666d0>] xenwatch_thread+0x0/0x145 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff802334da>] kthread+0xd4/0x107 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff8025c7d8>] child_rip+0xa/0x12 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff8028f837>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0x61 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff80233406>] kthread+0x0/0x107 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: [<ffffffff8025c7ce>] child_rip+0x0/0x12 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: Code: 0f 0b 68 74 db 41 80 c2 e1 01 f0 0f ab 91 00 08 00 00 b8 01 Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: RIP [<ffffffff80360ee3>] retrigger+0x26/0x3e Sep 17 12:49:43 xen1 kernel: RSP <ffff8801ef5bfd88> -- System Information: Debian Release: etch/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-xen-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-amd64 depends on: ii linux-image-2.6.18 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2 Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD64 ii xen-hypervisor-3.0 3.0.3-0-2 The Xen Hypervisor on AMD64 xen-linux-system-2.6.18-5-xen-amd64 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]