On 12/19/2011 04:40 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Marc Zyngier<marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote: >> On 19/12/11 15:30, Antonios Motakis wrote: >>> On 12/19/2011 04:19 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>>> On 19/12/11 14:57, Christoffer Dall wrote: >>>>> >>>>> You should simply start booting a UP guest on an SMP host, see where >>>>> it crashes and start tracking it down. >>>> For the time being, I've yet to see UP guest crashing on SMP host. On >>>> the model, that is... >>>> >>>> >>> Last time I tried to run a guest in a 2 core model, it hanged and >>> crashed after a while. Anyway, I will investigate. So I gather critical >>> sections have been dealt with and it's just a matter of ironing bugs >>> right now? >> Depends when you tested. V4 was definitely unusable on SMP. >> >> With my patches merged in Christoffer's v5 release, the basics should be >> covered (correct SMP setup in the boot-wrapper and KVM, MPIDR >> virtualization). >> >> If you find any problem (and let's face it, I'm sure you will... ;-), >> I'll be happy to investigate. >> > I had the guest boot process crash on a page fault on the v5 series. > Consistently. I just didn't have time to investigate yet. I was also running v5, however I didn't record the exact crash behavior, since I assumed I was having the same results as everyone. I will look into it now.
