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Re: Xen 3.3: Problem HVM guest



On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 04:28:03PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2008 15:52:24 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:59:35PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
> > > > Did you try ktracing the process when is starts looping ?
> > >
> > >    400      8 python2.4 CALL  mlock(0x7f7ff73fb000,0x1000)
> > >    400      8 python2.4 RET   mlock 0
> > >    400      8 python2.4 CALL  ioctl(8,_IOWR('P',0,0x38),0x7f7ff73fb760)
> > >    400      8 python2.4 GIO   fd 8 wrote 56 bytes
> > >        "\"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\240\M-7?\M-w\^?\^?\0\0\M^?
> > > \M-g\^C\0\0\0\0\0\^A\0\0\
> > >         \0\0\0\0\0001S\240\M-{\^?\^?\0\0\^A\0\0\0\^A\0\0\0"
> > >    400      8 python2.4 GIO   fd 8 read 56 bytes
> > >        "\"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\240\M-7?\M-w\^?\^?\0\0\M^?
> > > \M-g\^C\0\0\0\0\0\^A\0\0\
> > >         \0\0\0\0\0001S\240\M-{\^?\^?\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"
> > >    400      8 python2.4 RET   ioctl 0
> > >    400      8 python2.4 CALL  munlock(0x7f7ff73fb000,0x1000)
> > >    400      8 python2.4 RET   munlock 0
> > >    400      8 python2.4 CALL  mmap(0,0x1000,3,0x1001,0xffffffff,0,0)
> > >    400      8 python2.4 RET   mmap 140187698843648/0x7f7ffdfdd000
> > >    400      8 python2.4 CALL  ioctl(8,_IOW('P',0x2,0x10),0x7f7ff73fb790)
> > >    400      8 python2.4 GIO   fd 8 wrote 16 bytes
> > >        "\^A\0\0\0\^A\0\0\0p\M-7?\M-w\^?\^?\0\0"
> > >    400      8 python2.4 RET   ioctl 0
> > >    400      3 python2.4 RET   select 0
> > >    400      3 python2.4 CALL 
> > > _lwp_park(0,0,0x7f7ffd104e80,0x7f7ffd104e80)
> > >
> > > > I guess it's looping on page fault. To check for what's going on I
> > > > would: - check that privcmd_map_obj() gets the protection right for
> > > > this address (it should be VM_PROT_READ | VM_PROT_WRITE, as we're
> > > > remapping a range which was mmapped read/write)
> > >
> > > Yes, protection is VM_PROT_READ | VM_PROT_WRITE.
> >
> > Looks good
> >
> > > > - instrument privpgop_fault() to see if it gets called at all for this
> > > >   mapping, and if it's doing the right thing.
> > > >   There should be only one page in this object, and the machine address
> > > >   should be 0 (pobj->maddr[maddr_i])
> > >
> > > Yes, privpgop_fault() is called. It looks like it's called in a loop.
> > > npages = 1 and machine address is 0.
> >
> > OK, it has the right data. I guess it's called in a loop because writing at
> > the page keeps failing.
> >
> > > > - if privpgop_fault() behaves properly, check that the
> > > > xpq_update_foreign() call in pmap_enter_ma() works as intended.
> > >
> > > It is not failing at least.
> >
> > Could you check the value of the pte (*ptep) after the call to
> > xpq_update_foreign() ?
> > Also, I guess we should be watching the value of 'ok' in
> > xpq_update_foreign(), which we're not doing right now ...
> 
> 
> [...]
> xpq_update_foreign: ok: 1
> pmap_enter_ma: *ptep: 0xda8b9167
> xpq_update_foreign: ok: 1
> pmap_enter_ma: *ptep: 0xdee10167
> xpq_update_foreign: ok: 1
> pmap_enter_ma: *ptep: 0x9c1fb167
> xpq_update_foreign: ok: 1
> pmap_enter_ma: *ptep: 0x9c1fc167
> xpq_update_foreign: ok: 1
> pmap_enter_ma: *ptep: 0x9c1fd167
> xpq_update_foreign: ok: 1
> pmap_enter_ma: *ptep: 0x9c1fe167
> xpq_update_foreign: ok: 1
> pmap_enter_ma: *ptep: 0x9c1ff167
> xpq_update_foreign: ok: 1
> pmap_enter_ma: *ptep: 0x9c1ff167
> "hang"

You mean, it keeps looping on this value, or nothing more happens ?

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