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Message-ID: <20160116090938.GA32085@pd.tnic>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 10:09:38 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: Unifying x86_64 / Xen init paths and reading hardware_subarch
early
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 05:39:05PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com> wrote:
> >> for (i = 0; i < sizeof(boot_params); i += 4096)
> >> early_make_pgtable((unsigned long)params + i);
> >
> > I'll give this a shot.
>
> Thanks again for this! It seems to let this boot now! But it does not
> seem to provided the right value. If I use the qemu debug patch as I
> listed before to set this to 5 for kvm, and boot it doesn't come up.
> This can be tested with the qemu debug patch + this debug kernel patch
> which prints it out and resets it from what it finds early.
>
> If you comment out the boot_params.hdr.hardware_subarch =
> my_hardware_subarch; assignment we get the right value from the
> copy_bootdata() work. I use my_hardware_subarch just as a quick hack
> to test and cache the value early code gets but that I can't print
> early on.
You can always do stupid debug loops:
while (subarch == <expected_value>)
rep_nop();
and when your guest stops booting and gdb points you here, then you know
what's going on. You can then dump interesting stuff too from gdb.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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