Dave, Take a look at this kernel as it is the one I think we are going to release (or a slightly newer 4.9.2x from kernel.org LTS). This version has some newer settings that are more redhat/fedora/centos base kernel like WRT what is a module and what is built into the kernel, etc. https://people.centos.org/hughesjr/4.9.x/ Thanks, Johnny Hughes On 04/14/2017 05:16 AM, Anderson, Dave wrote: > List moderator: feel free to delete my previous large message with attachments that's in the moderation queue...it's now obsolete anyway. > > > I have found a fix/workaround for my reboot issues with Xen 4.6.3-12 + Kernel 4.9.13: > > Once I finally got serial output all the way through the boot process (xen+dom0) I discovered the stack trace: > > [Firmware Bug]: CPU7: APIC id mismatch. Firmware: 0 APIC: 7 > installing Xen timer for CPU 8 > [Firmware Bug]: CPU8: APIC id mismatch. Firmware: 0 APIC: 20 > smpboot: Package 1 of CPU 8 exceeds BIOS package data 1. > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:997! > invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP > Modules linked in: > CPU: 8 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/8 Not tainted 4.9.13-22.el7.x86_64 #1 > Hardware name: Supermicro X9DRT/X9DRT, BIOS 3.2a 08/04/2015 > random: fast init done > task: ffff880058a8c4c0 task.stack: ffffc900400b4000 > RIP: e030:[<ffffffff8103e527>] [<ffffffff8103e527>] identify_secondary_cpu+0x57/0x80 > RSP: e02b:ffffc900400b7f08 EFLAGS: 00010086 > RAX: 00000000ffffffe4 RBX: ffff88005d80a020 RCX: ffffffff81c5be68 > RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: 0000000000000005 > RBP: ffffc900400b7f18 R08: 00000000000000cb R09: 0000000000000004 > R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000006 R12: 0000000000000008 > R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 > FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88005d800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > CS: e033 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033 > CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000001c07000 CR4: 0000000000042660 > Stack: > 0000000000000008 0000000000000000 ffffc900400b7f28 ffffffff8104e94e > ffffc900400b7f40 ffffffff81029925 0000000000000000 ffffc900400b7f50 > ffffffff810299a0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff8104e94e>] smp_store_cpu_info+0x3e/0x40 > [<ffffffff81029925>] cpu_bringup+0x35/0x90 > [<ffffffff810299a0>] cpu_bringup_and_idle+0x20/0x40 > Code: 44 89 e7 ff 50 68 0f b7 93 d2 00 00 00 39 d0 75 1c 0f b7 bb da 00 00 00 44 89 e6 e8 24 03 01 00 85 c0 75 07 5b 41 5c 5d c3 0f 0b <0f> 0b 0f b7 8b d4 00 00 00 89 c2 44 89 e6 48 c7 c7 98 87 a6 81 > RIP [<ffffffff8103e527>] identify_secondary_cpu+0x57/0x80 > RSP <ffffc900400b7f08> > ---[ end trace dc5563100443876e ]--- > > I surmised that reducing the number of dom0 vcpu might solve this issue (they were unbounded) > > In testing adding "dom0_max_vcpus=4 dom0_vcpus_pin" to the GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN_DEFAULT line in /etc/defaults/grub and re-running grub2-mkconfig has resulted in the system I have that never booted Xen 4.6.3-12 + Kernel 4.9.13, booting every single time out of 5-10 tests. > > > So...I don't know if there's a race condition somewhere, or what...but...so far this workaround has not failed me. > > Thanks, > -Dave > > > >> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 6:58 AM, PJ Welsh <pjwelsh at gmail.com >>> wrote: >>> I've not gotten any bites from my posting on the xen-devel mailing list. >>> Here is the only one to-date: >>> https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-04/msg01069.html >>> >>> From that email, there needs to be some hypervisor messages. >>> >>> Does anyone know how to produce the hypervisor messages? I've already >> >>> removed the rhgb and quiet options from the boot. >> >>> >>> Thanks >>> PJ >> >> >> I spoke too soon. To get more information: Please see >> >> https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Reporting_Bugs_against_Xen_Project >> >> and >> >> https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Serial_Console >> >> or alternatively at least add "vga=keep". >> >> pjwelsh > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt >
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