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From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Cheyenne Wills <cheyenne.wills@gmail.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: XSA-351 causing Solaris-11 systems to panic during boot.
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:12:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bca24cb-a3af-b54d-b224-3c2a316859dd@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHpsFVc4AAm6L0rKUuV47ydOjtw7XAgFnDZxRjdCL0OHXJERDw@mail.gmail.com>

On 16.11.2020 22:57, Cheyenne Wills wrote:
> Running Xen with XSA-351 is causing Solaris 11 systems to panic during
> boot.  The panic screen is showing the failure to be coming from
> "unix:rdmsr".  The panic occurs with existing guests (booting off a disk)
> and the  booting from an install ISO image.
> 
> I discussed the problem with "andyhhp__" in the "#xen" IRC channel and he
> requested that I report it here.

Thanks. What we need though is information on the specific MSR(s) that
will need to have workarounds added: We surely would want to avoid
blindly doing this for all that the XSA change disallowed access to.
Reproducing the panic screen here might already help; proper full logs
would be even better.

Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-17  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-16 21:57 XSA-351 causing Solaris-11 systems to panic during boot Cheyenne Wills
2020-11-17  8:12 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2020-11-17 14:43   ` Cheyenne Wills
2020-11-17 14:46     ` Andrew Cooper
2020-12-17  1:51   ` boris.ostrovsky
2020-12-17  7:40     ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-17 16:25       ` boris.ostrovsky
2020-12-17 16:46         ` Andrew Cooper
2020-12-17 17:49           ` boris.ostrovsky
2020-12-18 20:43             ` boris.ostrovsky
2020-12-21  8:21               ` Jan Beulich
2020-12-21 16:21                 ` boris.ostrovsky
2020-12-21 16:55                   ` Jan Beulich
2020-11-17 10:50 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-11-17 12:54   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-11-17 13:59     ` Cheyenne Wills

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