Re: (no subject)

[Francisco Rocha <f.e.liberal-rocha@newcastle.ac.uk>]

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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [konrad.wilk@oracle.com]
Sent: 06 April 2012 16:14
To: Wei Huang
Cc: Francisco Rocha; Andrew Cooper; xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] (no subject)

On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 09:51:52AM -0500, Wei Huang wrote:
> Then I think your Dom0 (i.e. kernel 3.x.x) has some problems with
> xsave/xrstor.

Hm .

.. snip..
> >kernel /boot/xen.gz blah blah xsave=0
> >module blah blah
> >blah
> >
> >Oh, i see, it's some new functionality. I will try it tomorrow and then let you know how it goes.
> >
> >Thank you for the help.
> >
> >Francisco
> >
> >-Wei
> >
> >>Anyway, shouldn't Xen support it?
> >>
> >>cheers,
> >>Francisco
> >The xsave=0 command line parameter solves the problem.

Francisco,

What version of Xen do you have? Xen 4.1? What is the motherboard/CPU combination.

I downloaded the latest version from xen-unstable.hg yesterday.

My machine is a Toshiba laptop R840-12F. Here is some info:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 42
model name	: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2620M CPU @ 2.70GHz
stepping	: 7
microcode	: 0x25
cpu MHz		: 800.000
cache size	: 4096 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 4
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 2
apicid		: 0
initial apicid	: 0
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 13
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips	: 5382.80
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

BIOS: TOSHIBA
Version: Version 3.60  
Release Date: 01/24/2012