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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, lists@ssl-mail.com
Cc: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>,
	Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: Xen 4.7.0 boot PANIC on kernel 4.7.0-4 + UEFI ?
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 15:03:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d54e28d-7d6d-e38b-5d4d-5ab6657b9c32@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57A2145B0200007800102460@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On 03/08/16 14:57, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 03.08.16 at 15:33, <lists@ssl-mail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016, at 02:01 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> Thanks. Does the use of /mapbs really matter for booting? I was
>>> assuming it would be relevant only for shutdown/reboot?
>> It has no effect on boot. With or without the "/mapbs" it boots Xen OK.
> As expected.
>
>> Without the "/mapbs" the system used to crash on reboot, but still continued 
>> with a reboot.  Reboot with the "/mapbs" was OK.
>>
>> Now, even with the "/mapbs" the system crashes on reboot.
> But afaict in a different way:
>
>> 	[  196.052042] reboot: Restarting system
>> 	(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:06:54] Hardware Dom0 shutdown: rebooting machine
>> 	(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:06:54] APIC error on CPU0: 40(00)
>> 	(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:06:54] ----[ Xen-4.7.0_09-454  x86_64  debug=n  Not tainted ]----
>> 	(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:06:54] CPU:    0
>> 	(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:06:54] RIP:    e008:[<000000009e746340>] 000000009e746340
>> [...]
>> 	(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:30:44] ****************************************
>> 	(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:30:44] Panic on CPU 0:
>> 	(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:30:44] GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT
>> 	(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:30:44] [error_code=0000]
>> 	(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:30:44] ****************************************
> A #GP fault in firmware code. Not much we can do about, I'm afraid,
> except for having you go with one of the mentioned workarounds
> (and perhaps getting in touch with the BIOS vendor).

One bit you snipped was

(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:06:54] Xen code around <000000009e746340>
(000000009e746340):
(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:06:54]  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 <00> 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
(XEN) [2016-08-03 13:06:54] Xen stack trace from rsp=ffff83008ce27dc0:

which shows that the EFI firmware has ended up in a block of zeroes. 
This clearly isn't conducive to its overall health.

~Andrew

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-03 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-26 23:32 Xen 4.7.0 boot PANIC on kernel 4.7.0-4 + UEFI ? lists
2016-07-27  1:43 ` lists
2016-07-27 15:50 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-27 16:21   ` lists
2016-07-27 16:34     ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-27 16:54       ` lists
2016-07-27 16:56         ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-27 18:22           ` lists
2016-07-27 18:28             ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-27 18:36               ` lists
2016-07-28  0:28                 ` lists
2016-07-28  0:53                   ` lists
2016-07-28  1:09                   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-07-28 17:20                     ` lists
2016-07-28 18:21                     ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-28 18:25                       ` lists
2016-07-28 19:05                         ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-28 19:06                         ` lists
2016-07-29 14:36                           ` lists
2016-07-29 15:42                             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-07-29 15:57                               ` lists
2016-07-29 16:03                                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-07-29 16:12                                   ` lists
2016-08-01 20:11                                   ` lists
2016-08-01 22:27                                     ` [BUG] " lists
2016-08-02  6:57                                     ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-02 13:16                                       ` lists
2016-08-02 19:02                                         ` lists
2016-08-03  9:01                                           ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-03 13:33                                             ` lists
2016-08-03 13:57                                               ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-03 14:03                                                 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2016-08-03 14:50                                                   ` lists
2016-08-03 15:41                                                     ` lists
2016-08-04 15:21                                             ` lists
2016-07-28 14:09                   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2016-07-28 14:18                     ` lists
2016-07-27 18:33           ` Juergen Gross
2016-08-02  6:36 ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-02 13:13   ` lists
2016-08-02 13:38     ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-02 13:54       ` lists
2016-08-02 14:13         ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-02 14:25           ` lists
2016-08-02 14:50             ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-02 15:04               ` lists
2016-08-02 15:55                 ` Jan Beulich

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