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I am seeing a problem with the Xen emulated serial console. When running a Linux 2.6.20 HVM guest that has CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n, the guest blocks on output to the console until it receives input keypresses from `xm console`. This prevents the guest from booting up without banging on some keys, and makes interactive use of the console difficult. By bisecting Linux kernel commits, I found that

Greetings, I got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is commit cf39c8e5352b4fb9efedfe7e9acb566a85ed847c Merge: 3398d25 23b7eaf Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed Sep 4 17:45:39 2013 -0700 Merge tag ''stable/for-linus-3.12-rc0-tag'' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull Xen updates from Konrad