From: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <iwj@xenproject.org>,
<xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
osstest service owner <osstest-admin@xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [xen-unstable test] 162845: regressions - FAIL
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:12:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YMoU5gLQEVBkmnLC@perard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8c4151a-6dac-d87c-ef46-eb35ada07bd9@suse.com>
On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 04:49:33PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> I don't think it should. But I now notice I should have looked at the
> logs of these tests:
>
> xc: info: Saving domain 2, type x86 HVM
> xc: error: Unable to obtain the guest p2m size (1 = Operation not permitted): Internal error
> xc: error: Save failed (1 = Operation not permitted): Internal error
>
> which looks suspiciously similar to the issue Jürgen's d21121685fac
> ("tools/libs/guest: fix save and restore of pv domains after 32-bit
> de-support") took care of, just that here we're dealing with a HVM
> guest. I'll have to go inspect what exactly the library is doing there,
> and hence where in Xen the -EPERM may be coming from all of the
> sudden (and only for OVMF).
>
> Of course the behavior you describe above may play into this, since
> aiui this might lead to an excessively large p2m (depending what
> exactly you mean with "as high as possible").
The maximum physical address size as reported by cpuid 0x80000008
(or 1<<48 if above that) minus 1 page, or 1<<36 - 1 page.
--
Anthony PERARD
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-16 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-16 6:54 [xen-unstable test] 162845: regressions - FAIL osstest service owner
2021-06-16 7:12 ` Jan Beulich
2021-06-16 14:21 ` Anthony PERARD
2021-06-16 14:49 ` Jan Beulich
2021-06-16 15:01 ` Jan Beulich
2021-06-16 15:12 ` Anthony PERARD [this message]
2021-06-16 15:34 ` Jan Beulich
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