Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Xen-users] 2.6.23 oops

Keir Fraser
Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:40:55 -0000

On 12/10/07 16:34, "Mark Williamson"
<mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>> I just realized I hadn''t been reading your backtrace closely
enough,
>> since it looks similar to the bug I''d been working on.  Turns
out having
>> an xfs rootfs is what triggers your bug - I can repro it now, so
I''ll
>> see if I can work out what''s going on.
>>
>> BTW, did last night''s little patch help with the UP time
issue?
>
> I''ve not had a chance to try it out yet...  I''ll try and
take a long.
>
> But I didn''t entirely understand the semantic significance of the
change?
> Could you possibly elaborate?

It fixed the layout of the structure passed to VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info. I
would expect that to improve stability!

 -- Keir