Re: Re: 2.6.37-rc1 mainline domU - BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Cc: Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets@yahoo.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Bruce Edge <bruce.edge@gmail.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: Re: 2.6.37-rc1 mainline domU - BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:01:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101112170143.GC10339@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <157480804.20101112172743@eikelenboom.it>

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:27:43PM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> Perhaps handpick some kernels before and after the pulls of the xen patches (pv-on-hvm etc) to begin with ?
> When you let git choose, especially with rc-1 kernels, you will end up with kernels in between patch series, resulting in panics.

Well, just the bare-bone boot of PV guests with nothing fancy ought to work.

But that is the theory and ..
> > The git bisecting is slow going. I've never tried that before and I'm a git
> > rookie.
> > I picked 2.6.36 - 2.6.37-rc1 as the bisect range and my first 2 bisects all
> > panic at boot so I'm obviously doing something wrong.
> > I'll RTFM a bit more and keep at it.

.. as Bruce experiences this is not the case. Hmm..