RHEL 6 XEN guest with kernel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64 hangs on boot
Issue
- RHEL 6 guest doesn't boot with
kernel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64
after patching. - System boots up with previous kernels successfully.
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The guest hangs on the following messages at boot:
(XEN) mm.c:2560:d27 Bad type (saw 7400000000000001 != exp 1000000000000000) for mfn 21ed59b (pfn 1e05) (XEN) d27:v0: unhandled page fault (ec=0000) (XEN) Pagetable walk from ffffffffff400000: (XEN) L4[0x1ff] = 000000214d50f067 0000000000001a91 (XEN) L3[0x1ff] = 000000214d50e067 0000000000001a92 (XEN) L2[0x1fa] = 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff (XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S: fault at ffff82d080203a7a entry.o#create_bounce_frame+0x125/0x13b (XEN) Domain 27 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0: (XEN) ----[ Xen-4.4.4OVM x86_64 debug=n Not tainted ]---- (XEN) CPU: 0 (XEN) RIP: e033:[<ffffffff812b7872>] (XEN) RFLAGS: 0000000000000202 EM: 1 CONTEXT: pv guest (d27v0) (XEN) rax: 0000000000000000 rbx: ffffffffff400000 rcx: 0000000000000004 (XEN) rdx: 0000000000000010 rsi: ffffffffff400000 rdi: ffffffff81a03e68 (XEN) rbp: ffffffff81a03e48 rsp: ffffffff81a03e00 r8: 0000000000000000 (XEN) r9: 0000000000007ff0 r10: 0000000000000000 r11: 0000000000000000 (XEN) r12: ffffffff81a03e58 r13: ffffffffff400000 r14: ffffffffff410000 (XEN) r15: ffffffff81a03e68 cr0: 000000008005003b cr4: 00000000001526f0 (XEN) cr3: 000000214d512000 cr2: ffffffffff400000 (XEN) ds: 0000 es: 0000 fs: 0000 gs: 0000 ss: e02b cs: e033
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a guest hosted on a XEN hypervisor
- kernel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64
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