On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:59:33PM +1100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> I thought I'd try out 2.6.25-rc1 as a xen 32-bit pae domU the other day.
>> Unfortunately, I didn't get very far very fast, as the domain just crashed
>> immediately upon booting, without any direct feedback (I did have messages
>> on the xen message buffer, which helped). This even with earlyprintk turned on.
>>
>> After a long, arduous journey, I managed to track this down to the following:
>>
>> ----------
>> commit	551889a6e2a24a9c06fd453ea03b57b7746ffdc0

	I'm seeing the same problem, with no messages at all from xen
other than "domain crashed, restart disabled" in xend.log.  I got a
different commit in my bisect, 0947b2f31ca1ea1211d3cde2dbd8fcec579ef395
(i386 boot: replace boot_io    remap with enhanced bt_ioremap - enhance
bt_ioremap).  I started from yesterday's
96b5a46e2a72dc1829370c87053e0cd558d58bc0 (WMI: initialize
wmi_blocks.list even if ACPI is disabled) and a known good
9b73e76f3cf63379dcf45fcd4f112f5812418d0a (Merge
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6).

> Although I'm on vacation, I happened to download a recent copy of  
> x86.git and found that it crashes early.  Here's a couple of patches to  
> apply; I don't know if they apply to current git, but I hope it helps.

> Subject: x86/early_ioremap: don't assume we're using swapper_pg_dir
> Subject: xen: unpin initial Xen pagetable once we're finished with it

	After my bisect was done, I re-pulled from Linus and discovered
these patches.  Searching for these emails, they certainly sound like my
problem.  But the kernel does not boot, commit
10270d4838bdc493781f5a1cf2e90e9c34c9142f (acpi: fix
acpi_os_read_pci_configuration() misuse of raw_pci_read()).  Still no
output from Xen - pygrub selects the kernel, and then the domain just
dies back to the dom0 shell.
	Attached are my latest .config and my bisect log.

Joel

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