Re: Xen 4.18.5_20250521nb0 not ELF binary (Was: Re: EFI and Xen)

[Chuck Zmudzinski <frchuckz%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 5/24/2025 10:09 AM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 08:16:42AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
>> > 
>> > N.B. My cpu has 14 cores and 20 threads because there are 6 cores that have hyperthreading - so it hangs where the hyperthreading starts. Last thing to try is with smt=false...
>> 
>> 
>> Adding smt=false to the Xen command line gets me a little farther but it still hangs:
>> 
>> snip ...
>> 
>> [   1.0000000] vcpu13 at hypervisor0
>> 
>> [   1.0000000] vcpu13: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-14500, id 0xb06f2
>> 
>> [   1.0000000] vcpu13: node 0, package 0, core 0, smt 0
>> 
>> [   1.0000000] xenbus0 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Bus Interface
>> 
>> [   1.0000000] xencons0 at hypervisor0: Xen Virtual Console Driver
>> 
>> [   1.0000000] acpi0 at hypervisor0: Intel ACPICA 20221020
>> 
>> [   1.0000000] ACPI: Dynamic OEM Table Load:
>> 
>> [   1.0000000] ACPI: SSDT 0xFFFFAE80049B3808 000394 (v02 PmRef  Cpu0Cst  00003001 INTL 20200717)
>> 
>> [   1.0000000] ACPI: Dynamic OEM Table Load:
>> 
>> [   1.0000000] ACPI: SSDT 0xFFFFAE80049B900
>> 
>> Then it hangs...
> 
> Could you try with 
> conring_size=4096k sync_console
> on the Xen command line, with or without smt ?
> the fact that it stops in the middle of a line with smt makes me wonder if
> we're really seeing the whole messages
> 
> 

No difference with the larger conring_size, unfortunately.