From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4802D8D003A for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:30:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from localhost user: 'dkiper' uid#4000 fake: STDIN (dkiper@router-fw.net-space.pl)) by router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl id S1579084Ab1COPaB (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:30:01 +0100 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:30:01 +0100 From: Daniel Kiper Subject: Re: Bootup fix for _brk_end being != _end Message-ID: <20110315153001.GD12730@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> References: <20110308214429.GA27331@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> <20110315142957.GB12730@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> <20110315144821.GA11586@dumpdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110315144821.GA11586@dumpdata.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Daniel Kiper , Stefano Stabellini , Ian Campbell , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "andi.kleen@intel.com" , "haicheng.li@linux.intel.com" , "fengguang.wu@intel.com" , "jeremy@goop.org" , Dan Magenheimer , "v.tolstov@selfip.ru" , "pasik@iki.fi" , "dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "wdauchy@gmail.com" , "rientjes@google.com" , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:48:21AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > > Additionally, I suggest to apply patch prepared by Steffano Stabellini > > > > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/31/232) which fixes memory management > > > > issue in Xen guest. I was not able boot guest machine without > > > > above mentioned patch. > > > > > > after some discussions we came up with a different approach to fix the > > > issue; I sent a couple of patches a little while ago: > > > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/28/410 > > > > I tested git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/linux-pvhvm.git 2.6.38-tip-fixes > > and it works on x86_64, however, it does not work on i386. Tested as > > unprivileged guest on Xen Ver. 4.1.0-rc2-pre. On i386 domain crashes > > silently at early boot stage :-(((. > > Details? Can you provide the 'xenctx' output of where it crashed? As I wrote above domain is dying and I am not able to connect to it using xenctx after crash :-(((. I do not know how to do that in another way. Daniel -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org