Pkg xen devel - Mar 2008 - Bug#469811: xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae: kernel BUG at drivers/xen/core/evtchn.c:481

Package: xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae
Version: 3.0.3-0-4
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

Hi!

the error suddenly appeared when creating a domU
using xm create <name> on our etch server
The server freezes and isn't accessible via console/ssh anymore.
The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2900 with 2 Quad-Core Xeon E5335 and 8Gb memory.


pc307005:~# xm create -c ptt.cfg
Using config file "/etc/xen/ptt.cfg".
Started domain ptt
Linux version 2.6.18-6-xen-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1) (waldi at
debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian
4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:43:13 UTC 2008
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 Xen: 0000000000000000 - 0000000020800000 (usable)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
520MB LOWMEM available.
NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
ACPI in unprivileged domain disabled
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 133120
Kernel command line:  root=/dev/sda1 ro
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Xen reported: 1995.020 MHz processor.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Software IO TLB disabled
vmalloc area: e1000000-f51fe000, maxmem 2d7fe000
Memory: 503168k/532480k available (1580k kernel code, 20836k reserved, 588k
data, 148k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4989.72 BogoMIPS (lpj=9979454)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed
Brought up 1 CPUs
migration_cost=0
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 11562k freed
Grant table initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Brought up 1 CPUs
PCI: setting up Xen PCI frontend stub
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
PCI: System does not support PCI
PCI: System does not support PCI
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1204873182.587:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Xen virtual console successfully installed as tty1
Event-channel device installed.
netfront: Initialising virtual ethernet driver.
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
i8042.c: No controller found.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Registering block device major 8
netfront: device eth0 has flipping receive path.
netfront: device eth1 has flipping receive path.

Message from syslogd at pc307005 at Fri Mar  7 07:59:42 2008 ...
pc307005
Message from syslogd at pc307005 at Fri Mar  7 07:59:42 2008 ...
pc307005 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Message from ...
kernel: kernel BUG at drivers/xen/core/evtchn.c:481!
pc307005 kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
pc307005 kernel: SMP
pc307005 kernel: CPU:    5
pc307005 kernel: EIP is at retrigger+0x1f/0x35
pc307005 kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: 02080000   ecx: 0000003b   edx: f55f6000
pc307005 kernel: esi: c0318c20   edi: 00000129   ebp: 00000000   esp: c1159eb0
pc307005 kernel: Code: ee 85 f6 75 96 58 5a 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 0f b7 0c 85 40 b8 37
c0 8b 15 84 19 2d c0 85 c9 74 1d 0f a3 8a 80 08 00 00
19 c0 85 c0 75 08 <0f> 0b e1 01 92 1a 2b c0 f0 0f ab 8a 00 08 00 00 b8 01
00 00 00
pc307005 kernel: EIP: [<c020c41e>] retrigger+0x1f/0x35 SS:ESP
0069:c1159eb0
pc307005 kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0069
pc307005 kernel: Process xenwatch (pid: 29, ti=c1158000 task=c0eaf000
task.ti=c1158000)
pc307005 kernel: Stack: c013b225 c0318c20 00000129 c0318c48 c013af79 ce5adec0
00000000 00000000
pc307005 kernel:        ce5adec0 c02173c4 00000000 c02177a4 c0210933 00000010
00000000 0000040c
pc307005 kernel:        0000040b 00000000 00000000 dce03575 c02e67a4 ee9f6000
00000000 00000002
pc307005 kernel: Call Trace:

Freeing unused kernel memory: 148k freed
Loading, please wait...
Begin: Loading essential drivers... ...
Done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ...
FATAL: Error inserting fan
(/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-xen-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/fan.ko): No such device
FATAL: Error inserting thermal
(/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-xen-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko): No such device
Done.
Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: dm-devel at
redhat.com
Done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ...
Done.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ...
Done.
Done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
Done.
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
INIT: version 2.86 booting
* Mount point '/dev/shm' does not exist. Skipping mount.
Activating swap...Adding 1048568k swap on /dev/sda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1
across:1048568k
done.
Checking root file system...fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/sda1: clean, 22282/655360 files, 132764/1310720 blocks
done.
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
Setting the system clock..
Cleaning up ifupdown....
Loading kernel modules...done.
Loading device-mapper support.
Checking file systems...fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
done.
Setting kernel variables...done.
Mounting local filesystems...done.
Activating swapfile swap...done.
Setting up networking....
Configuring network interfaces...
(system freezes here)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-xen-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae depends on:
ii  xen-utils-3.0.3-1             3.0.3-0-4  XEN administrative tools

xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae recommends no packages.

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