On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:17:40AM +0800, Xu, Anthony wrote: > >inside vmx_ivt.S: > > > >// 0x5400 Entry 24 (size 16 bundles) General Exception (5,32,34,36,38,39) > >ENTRY(vmx_general_exception) > > VMX_DBG_FAULT(24) > > VMX_FAULT(24) > >// VMX_REFLECT(24) > >END(vmx_general_exception) > > > >IIRC, VMX_FAULT is an infinite loop. Therefore, in case of general exception > >raised at the hots IVT, xen locks. > > > >Is it a bug or something not finished ? > It's not a bug, normally general exception will not happen in guest, > If it does happen, that means something wrong, it was used for > debugging.
Now xen/ia64 has register dump/stack trace functionality. So would it be much better to show stack trace than silent loop? -- yamahata _______________________________________________ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel
