Bug#606964:

2012-07-18 Thread Lorenzo Milesi
I'm running into a similar issue with a Debian6 system fully updated (standard and -updates repos). It's an IBM x3850, 16G of ram I tried setting max_dom0_mem like stated here [1] but didn't solve the issue, the server reboots after scrubbing free ram. Still hadn't chance to connect a serial

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:01 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: Hi, I've tried the following combinations: [...] Thanks, I'll dig through the logs in a bit and see if anything shows up. This looks like a bug in the Xen hypervisor and not a kernel parameter? I think so, the CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-06 Thread Rik Theys
Ian, On 01/06/2011 10:09 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: I can test some more options on this system for a few more days, but then I have to reinstall it. If you are able it would be useful to know if the tip of xen-4.0-testing.hg (which is just about to become 4.0.2-rc1) works or not. You would only

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 10:17 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: Ian, On 01/06/2011 10:09 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: I can test some more options on this system for a few more days, but then I have to reinstall it. If you are able it would be useful to know if the tip of xen-4.0-testing.hg (which is

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 09:59 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: Hi, On 12/22/2010 10:34 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: I was wondering about clamping something in the kernel to correspond to CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY and avoid the issue but you say the crash is after x VCPUS and before Scrubbing Free

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:08 +, Ian Campbell wrote: Now I think of it can you also collect a similar log with the dom0_mem workaround in place, for comparisons sake. Are you able to rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=128? If so then a log of that boot for comparison would

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-04 Thread Rik Theys
Iann Now I think of it can you also collect a similar log with the dom0_mem workaround in place, for comparisons sake. Are you able to rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=128? If so then a log of that boot for comparison would be very interesting. If you don't know how

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2011-01-03 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 12/22/2010 10:34 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: I was wondering about clamping something in the kernel to correspond to CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY and avoid the issue but you say the crash is after x VCPUS and before Scrubbing Free RAM so I'm surprised the dom0 kernel has run at this point

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2010-12-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 07:20 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: Hi, On 12/14/2010 02:41 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: When adding dom0_mem=2G to the boot line, the system boots OK. I expect it will work ok with everything up to and including dom0_mem=32G? It does. Thanks. It depends a bit on your

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2010-12-21 Thread Rik Theys
Hi, On 12/14/2010 02:41 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: When adding dom0_mem=2G to the boot line, the system boots OK. I expect it will work ok with everything up to and including dom0_mem=32G? It does. It depends a bit on your usecase but it is often best recommended to use dom0_mem= anyway,

Bug#606964: linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: Xen fails to boot dom0 kernel on system with, lots of RAM

2010-12-14 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 11:42 +0100, Rik Theys wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-29 Severity: normal When booting Xen 4.0.1 with the Debian dom0 kernel, Xen hangs on startup after saying that the system has x VCPUS and before starting the Scrubbing Free RAM. This looks related to