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Date:      Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:56:46 -0800
From:      Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
To:        Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu>
Cc:        Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, "xen@freebsd.org" <xen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PV i386 patch
Message-ID:  <1324169806.3093.3.camel@hitfishpass-lx.corp.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EEB9CCE.6090701@rice.edu>
References:  <4EEB9CCE.6090701@rice.edu>

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On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 11:32 -0800, Alan Cox wrote:
> Is anyone here actively working on fixing problems with SMP support 
> under PV i386?  While doing some other maintenance on the 
> vm_page_alloc() callers in the source tree, I happened to take a look at 
> cpu_initialize_context() in mp_machdep.c.  This function is involved in 
> bringing up the 2nd, 3rd, etc. CPUs on an SMP system.  I spotted a 
> couple obvious errors.  First, the size parameter given to kmem_*() 
> functions is expected to be in terms of bytes and not pages.  Second, I 
> believe that PV i386 requires PAE to be used.  If so, there are out of 
> range accesses to the array m[].
> 
> Index: i386/xen/mp_machdep.c
> ===================================================================
> --- i386/xen/mp_machdep.c       (revision 228561)
> +++ i386/xen/mp_machdep.c       (working copy)
> @@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ cpu_initialize_context(unsigned int cpu)
>   {
>          /* vcpu_guest_context_t is too large to allocate on the stack.
>           * Hence we allocate statically and protect it with a lock */
> -       vm_page_t m[4];
> +       vm_page_t m[NPGPTD + 2];
>          static vcpu_guest_context_t ctxt;
>          vm_offset_t boot_stack;
>          vm_offset_t newPTD;
> @@ -831,8 +831,8 @@ cpu_initialize_context(unsigned int cpu)
>                  pmap_zero_page(m[i]);
> 
>          }
> -       boot_stack = kmem_alloc_nofault(kernel_map, 1);
> -       newPTD = kmem_alloc_nofault(kernel_map, NPGPTD);
> +       boot_stack = kmem_alloc_nofault(kernel_map, PAGE_SIZE);
> +       newPTD = kmem_alloc_nofault(kernel_map, NPGPTD * PAGE_SIZE);
>          ma[0] = VM_PAGE_TO_MACH(m[0])|PG_V;
> 
>   #ifdef PAE
> @@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ cpu_initialize_context(unsigned int cpu)
>              nkpt*sizeof(vm_paddr_t));
> 
>          pmap_qremove(newPTD, 4);
> -       kmem_free(kernel_map, newPTD, 4);
> +       kmem_free(kernel_map, newPTD, 4 * PAGE_SIZE);
>          /*
>           * map actual idle stack to boot_stack
>           */


This seems happy on our ref9 VMs.  I don't suppose this means I can go
above 768M of Ram now?


[root@xen1 sbruno]# /usr/sbin/xm create -c ref9-xen32
Using config file "/etc/xen/ref9-xen32".
Started domain ref9-xen32 (id=106)
WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing!
GDB: no debug ports present
KDB: debugger backends: ddb
KDB: current backend: ddb
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FreeBSD 9.0-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Dec 17 16:13:02 PST 2011

sbruno@ref9-xen32.freebsd.org:/dumpster/scratch/sbruno-scratch/9/sys/i386/compile/XEN i386
WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
Xen reported: 2493.756 MHz processor.
Timecounter "ixen" frequency 1953125 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5420  @ 2.50GHz (2493.76-MHz
686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x10676  Family = 6  Model = 17
Stepping = 6

Features=0xbfe3fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>

Features2=0xce3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,SSE4.1>
  AMD Features=0x20100000<NX,LM>
  AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
real memory  = 805306368 (768 MB)
avail memory = 776830976 (740 MB)
[XEN] IPI cpu=0 irq=128 vector=RESCHEDULE_VECTOR (0)
[XEN] IPI cpu=0 irq=129 vector=CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR (1)
[XEN] xen_rtc_probe: probing Hypervisor RTC clock
rtc0: <Xen Hypervisor Clock> on motherboard
[XEN] xen_rtc_attach: attaching Hypervisor RTC clock
xenstore0: <XenStore> on motherboard
xc0: <Xen Console> on motherboard
Event timer "ixen" quality 600
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
xenbusb_front0: <Xen Frontend Devices> on xenstore0
[XEN] hypervisor wallclock nudged; nudging TOD.
xn0: <Virtual Network Interface> at device/vif/0 on xenbusb_front0
xn0: Ethernet address: 00:16:3e:00:00:03
xenbusb_back0: <Xen Backend Devices> on xenstore0
xctrl0: <Xen Control Device> on xenstore0
xn0: backend features: feature-sg feature-gso-tcp4
xbd0: 10240MB <Virtual Block Device> at device/vbd/768 on xenbusb_front0
xbd0: attaching as ad0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2493756000 Hz quality 800
WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance.
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0p2 []...
rtc0: [XEN] xen_rtc_gettime
rtc0: [XEN] xen_rtc_gettime: wallclock 1313550543 sec; 871707442 nsec
rtc0: [XEN] xen_rtc_gettime: uptime 10619933 sec; 620343100 nsec
rtc0: [XEN] xen_rtc_gettime: TOD 1324170477 sec; 492050542 nsec
Setting hostuuid: 1c127834-ab5a-c2e4-7b24-5ea29d364d9d.
Setting hostid: 0xdea9fbfd.
Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_point kickstart.
Starting file system checks:
/dev/ad0p2: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
/dev/ad0p2: clean, 1874771 free (883 frags, 234236 blocks, 0.0%
fragmentation)
Mounting local file systems:.
Setting hostname: ref9-xen32.freebsd.org.
xn0: link state changed to DOWN
xn0: link state changed to UP
Starting Network: lo0 xn0.
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
        options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
xn0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
1500
        options=503<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,TSO4,LRO>
        ether 00:16:3e:00:00:03
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet manual
        status: active
Starting devd.
DHCPDISCOVER on xn0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPOFFER from 69.147.83.62
DHCPREQUEST on xn0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 69.147.83.62
bound to 69.147.83.99 -- renewal in 900 seconds.
add net ::ffff:0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
add net ::0.0.0.0: gateway ::1
add net fe80::: gateway ::1
add net ff02::: gateway ::1
Waiting 30s for the default route
interface: .............................
Mounting NFS file systems:.
ELF ldconfig path: /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat /usr/local/lib
a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout
Creating and/or trimming log files.
Starting syslogd.
No core dumps found.
Setting date via ntp.
rtc0: [XEN] xen_rtc_settime
17 Dec 16:55:16 ntpdate[703]: step time server 69.147.83.54 offset
-29601.428874 sec
NFS access cache time=60
Setting NIS domain: freebsd.
Starting rpcbind.
Starting ypbind.
Clearing /tmp (X related).
Updating motd:.
Starting ntpd.
Starting sshd.
Starting cron.
Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds.

Sat Dec 17 16:55:17 PST 2011

FreeBSD/i386 (ref9-xen32.freebsd.org) (xc0)

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