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From: "Liu, SongtaoX" <songtaox.liu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/EPT: flush cache when (potentially)
 limiting cachability
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 07:34:23 +0000
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Sorry to update.
The bug refers to http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1887.
L2 guest vnc console hangs at black screen with cursor flashing at the top left corner.
After several minutes, the Seabios screen shows up, but the screen still flush slowly, the guest could not boot up.
For the good point(L0 git:06bbcaf48d09c18a41c482866941ddd5d2846b44), the L2 rhel_x64 could boot up less in than 90s.

Regards
Songtao
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeulich@suse.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 3:02 PM
> To: Liu, SongtaoX; xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> Cc: Dong, Eddie; Nakajima, Jun; Tian, Kevin; Pang, LongtaoX; Hu, Robert; Zhang,
> Yang Z; keir@xen.org; tim@xen.org
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] x86/EPT: flush cache when (potentially)
> limiting cachability
> 
> >>>> "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com> 05/30/14 8:28 AM >>> "Liu,
> >>>> SongtaoX" <songtaox.liu@intel.com> 05/30/14 4:07 AM >>>
> >>The following patch leads nested (Xen on Xen ,KVM on Xen) L2 guest
> >>failed to boot up with default EPT option "hap=1". L2 guest with "hap=0" still
> works.
> >
> >That's way to vague a problem description. In what way does it fail?
> >Are there any relevant log messages anywhere? Without suitable detail,
> >how am I (or is anyone else) supposed to help with this?
> 
> I should have added that the patch here solely adding cache flushes, it can't
> reasonable have affected correctness. Hence unless it introduces a live lock of
> some sort, the only possibility I see is that it uncovered some other previously
> latent/hidden problem.
> 
> Jan