On 02/09/2025 12:23 pm, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 12:13:27PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> On 02/09/2025 11:56 am, Manuel Bouyer wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 11:44:36AM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>>> On 02/09/2025 11:17 am, Manuel Bouyer wrote: >>>>> Hello, >>>>> I'm trying to boot a NetBSD PVH dom0 on Xen 4.20. >>>>> The same NetBSD kernel works fine with Xen 4.18 >>>>> >>>>> The boot options are: >>>>> menu=Boot netbsd-current PVH Xen420:dev hd0f:;load /netbsd-PVH >>>>> console=com0 root=wd0f; multiboot /xen420-debug.gz dom0_mem=1024M >>>>> console=com1 com1=38400,8n1 loglvl=all guest_loglvl=all >>>>> gnttab_max_nr_frames=64 sync_console=1 dom0=pvh >>>>> >>>>> and the full log from serial console is attached. >>>>> >>>>> With 4.20 the boot fails with: >>>>> >>>>> (XEN) *** Serial input to DOM0 (type 'CTRL-a' three times to switch input) >>>>> (XEN) Freed 664kB init memory >>>>> (XEN) d0v0 Triple fault - invoking HVM shutdown action 1 >>>>> (XEN) *** Dumping Dom0 vcpu#0 state: *** >>>>> (XEN) ----[ Xen-4.20.2-pre_20250821nb0 x86_64 debug=y Tainted: C >>>>> ]---- >>>>> (XEN) CPU: 7 >>>>> (XEN) RIP: 0008:[<000000000020e268>] >>>>> (XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000010006 CONTEXT: hvm guest (d0v0) >>>>> (XEN) rax: 000000002024c003 rbx: 000000000020e260 rcx: >>>>> 00000000000dfeb7 >>>>> (XEN) rdx: 0000000000100000 rsi: 0000000000103000 rdi: >>>>> 000000000013e000 >>>>> (XEN) rbp: 0000000080000000 rsp: 00000000014002e4 r8: >>>>> 0000000000000000 >>>>> (XEN) r9: 0000000000000000 r10: 0000000000000000 r11: >>>>> 0000000000000000 >>>>> (XEN) r12: 0000000000000000 r13: 0000000000000000 r14: >>>>> 0000000000000000 >>>>> (XEN) r15: 0000000000000000 cr0: 0000000000000011 cr4: >>>>> 0000000000000000 >>>>> (XEN) cr3: 0000000000000000 cr2: 0000000000000000 >>>>> (XEN) fsb: 0000000000000000 gsb: 0000000000000000 gss: >>>>> 0000000000000000 >>>>> (XEN) ds: 0010 es: 0010 fs: 0000 gs: 0000 ss: 0010 cs: 0008 >>>>> >>>>> because of the triple fault the RIP above doens't point to the code. >>>>> >>>>> I tracked it down to this code: >>>>> cmpl $0,%ecx ; /* zero-sized? */ \ >>>>> je 2f ; \ >>>>> pushl %ebp ; \ >>>>> movl RELOC(nox_flag),%ebp ; \ >>>>> 1: movl %ebp,(PDE_SIZE-4)(%ebx) ; /* upper 32 bits: NX */ \ >>>>> movl %eax,(%ebx) ; /* store phys addr */ \ >>>>> addl $PDE_SIZE,%ebx ; /* next PTE/PDE */ \ >>>>> addl $PAGE_SIZE,%eax ; /* next phys page */ \ >>>>> loop 1b ; \ >>>>> popl %ebp ; \ >>>>> 2: ; >>>>> >>>>> there are others pushl/popl before so I don't think that's the problem >>>>> (in fact the exact same fragment is called just before with different >>>>> inputs and it doesn't fault). So the culprit it probably the write to >>>>> (%ebx), >>>>> which would be 0x20e260 >>>>> This is in the range: >>>>> (XEN) [0000000000100000, 0000000040068e77] (usable) >>>>> so I can't see why this would be a problem. >>>>> >>>>> Any idea, including how to debug this further, welcome >>>> Even though triple fault's are aborts, they're generally accurate under >>>> virt, so 0x20e268 is most likely where things die. >>> but that's the RIP of the last fault, not the first one, right ? >>> 0x20e268 isn't in the text segment of the kernel, my guess is that the >>> first fault triggers an exception, but the exeption handler isn't set up yet >>> so we end up jumping to some random value. >> Double and Triple faults occur when trying to deliver an exception >> generates an exception. So while multiple faults are involved, only one >> instruction typically is. >> >> Is this an Intel or an AMD system? One thing virt can do is break apart >> a triple fault, but the logic to do so is vendor specific. > it's an old intel system: > cpu0: "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz" > cpu0: Intel Xeon 36xx & 56xx, i7, i5 and i3 (686-class), 2667.30 MHz > cpu0: family 0x6 model 0x2c stepping 0x2 (id 0x206c2) >
Hmm. Westmere EP. Are you running with EPT active, or with Shadow Paging? ~Andrew
