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SubjectRe: [XEN PATCH 1/2] hvm: Support more than 32 VCPUS when migrating.
>>> On 22.04.14 at 20:34, <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> With this patch:
> [...]
> And with an HVM guest poking at the rest of VCPUOPs: VCPUOP_get_physid,
> VCPUOP_initialise, and VCPUOP_send_nmi - either before the CPU is up or
> when it is up - work.
>
> That is: the VCPUOP_get_physid would return -EINVAL; VCPUOP_initialise
> would return either -EEXIST or 0, and in either case
> the content of the ctxt was full of zeros.

Good.

> The VCPUOP_send_nmi did cause the HVM to get an NMI and it spitted out
> 'Dazed and confused'. It also noticed corruption:
>
> [ 3.611742] Corrupted low memory at c000fffc (fffc phys) = 00029b00
> [ 2.386785] Corrupted low memory at ffff88000000fff8 (fff8 phys) =
> 2990000000000
>
> Which is odd because there does not seem to be anything in the path
> of hypervisor that would cause this.

Indeed. This looks a little like a segment descriptor got modified here
with a descriptor table base of zero and a selector of 0xfff8. That
corruption needs to be hunted down in any case before enabling
VCPUOP_send_nmi for HVM.

Jan



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