Re: [Xen-devel] PROBLEM: kernel panic xsave_init

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Mon Oct 19 2015 - 12:25:36 EST


On 10/19/2015 06:16 AM, John Doe wrote:
[ 0.000000] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.1.9-6.pvops.qubes.x86_64 #1
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./Z170 Extreme4, BIOS P1.80 09/18/2015
[ 0.000000] task: ffffffff81c154c0 ti: ffffffff81c00000 task.ti: ffffffff81c00000
[ 0.000000] RIP: e030:[<ffffffff81d58fad>] [<ffffffff81d58fad>] xstate_enable_boot_cpu+0xde/0x288
[ 0.000000] RSP: e02b:ffffffff81c03de8 EFLAGS: 00010046
[ 0.000000] RAX: 000000000000001f RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001f RDI: 0000000000042660


It would be good to see what's at ffffffff81d58fad. My guess would be that it's xsetbv.

If it is then you probably want to make sure you are running hypervisor that has commit e8121c54 ("x86/xsave: enable support for new ISA extensions"). Looks like the first version that has it is 4.5 and you seem to be running 4.4.2.

Copying Jan to see if there are plans to backport this (probably not since it's a new feature).

-boris



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