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Bug#637308: xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64: with kernel option 'nosmp', dom0 hangup while init PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS



On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 09:04 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 12:55 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 10:07 +0400, Константин Алексеев wrote:
> > > I think this bug may be closed.
> > > I posted it to xen devel list and get answer:
> > > "It's really an unsupported configuration. If you want to limit dom0 vcpus
> > > then dom0_max_vcpus= on Xen command line is the correct way."
> > > 
> > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-08/msg00665.html
> > 
> > Maybe we should panic in this case?
> 
> It's a bit sad but yes I think that would be better than leaving traps
> for the unwary given that the issue is unlikely to bubble up most Xen
> developers' todo list any time soon
> 
> Your use of skip_ioapic_setup clued me into the probable difference
> between nosmp and dom0_max_vcpus=1 -- the disabling of IOAPIC most
> likely matters to Xen.
[...]

Yes, that is the one thing nosmp (or maxcpus=0) does that maxcpus=1 does
not.

Ben.

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