Pkg xen devel - Sep 2019 - Bug#939186: HVM + Balloon crashes Xen hypervisor

Package: xen-hypervisor-4.8-amd64
Version: 4.8.5+shim4.10.2+xsa282-1+deb9u11

Trying to create a HVM domain with memory != maxmem reliably crashes
Debian's build of Xen 4.8.  This may be a nonsensical configuration, but
it still shouldn't cause everything, including the hypervisor to crash.

I recall running into this with 4.4 as well.


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Control: found 939186 4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1

Certainly reproduced with 4.11.  Most recently I tried 4.14 and it
*didn't* occur.

Problem is I've got two guesses:

First, system had most VMs shutdown for some experimentation.  Could be
having >50% of memory allocated is needed for this to occur.

Second, could be the issue got fixed sometime before 4.14.


I *really* hope it is the second, but #939186 should remain open for a
while so that experimentation can occur.


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Processing control commands:
> found 939186 4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1
Bug #939186 [src:xen] HVM + Balloon crashes Xen hypervisor
Marked as found in versions xen/4.11.4+107-gef32c7afa2-1.

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939186: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939186
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found 939186 4.14.2+25-gb6a8c4f72d-2
found 939186 4.14.3-1
tags 939186 upstream
quit

Upon a bit more experimentation, seems my minimal example had become too
minimal.  Bring in the less minimal example and things explode again.

Finally setup an appropriate downtime window and it reproduced.  After
some fighting to get Xen's console operational, detail on the panic was
recorded.

My wild guess from the output is some combination of enabling
"nestedhvm"
and this being an AMD processor machine.


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Your message dated Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:58:16 -0700
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and subject line Bug#939186: Poor documentation indeed
has caused the Debian Bug report #939186,
regarding HVM + Balloon crashes Xen hypervisor
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