I have been trying to get Xen working on an Intel S5000VLC motherboard in
x86_64 mode running CentOS 5 (2.6.18 kernel). It boots fine without Xen,
but when running Xen I get a hang on boot while it is configuring the PCI
devices. I''ve done some debugging, and it appears that the problem is
a
HYPERVISOR_physdev_op() call, which never returns.
The call at fault is in io_apic_write() in arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic-xen.c:
HYPERVISOR_physdev_op(PHYSDEVOP_apic_write, &apic_op);
which is called from io_apic_set_pci_routing() (in the same file):
io_apic_write(ioapic, 0x10+2*pin, *(((int *)&entry)+0));
called from mp_register_gsi() in arch/x86_64/kernel/mpparse-xen.c:
io_apic_set_pci_routing(ioapic, ioapic_pin, gsi, triggering =
ACPI_EDGE_SENSITIVE ? 0 : 1, polarity == ACPI_ACTIVE_HIGH
? 0 : 1);
called from acpi_register_gsi() in arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot-xen.c:
plat_gsi = mp_register_gsi(gsi, triggering, polarity);
I lost track of the calls at this point, but picked them up again in
arch/i386/pci/common.c where pcibios_enable_device() calls:
return pcibios_enable_irq(dev);
which is called from pci_enable_device_bars() in drivers/pci/pci.c:
err = pcibios_enable_device(dev, bars);
called from pci_enable_device() in the same file:
err = pci_enable_device_bars(dev, (1 << PCI_NUM_RESOURCES) - 1);
called from drivers/pci/bus.c:
retval = pci_enable_device(dev);
The problem also happens under Fedora 7 when running Xen.
It looks like something might not be getting initialised, since the xen
kernel boots fine if you boot the non-xen kernel first and then reboot
without powering off in between.
The motherboard is running the latest (2 month old) BIOS, however I''ve
noticed that the stock (non-Xen) Fedora 7 kernel fails to boot unless you
specify acpi=off, so presumably the BIOS has some ACPI bugs. Specifying
acpi=off doesn''t solve the Xen problem though.
I''d appreciate any suggestions. I''m relatively happy poking
around in
the Linux kernel, but since it is a call to the Xen hypervisor which is
hanging I''m a bit stumped, having never looked at the Xen sourcecode
before.
Thank you.
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