[Bug 224003] xen kernel panics

[Roger Pau Monné]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 07:38:28PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On 03/31/18 18:11, Chris wrote:
> > > On 03/30/18 18:05, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > >
> > >> I can affirm that a E56xx cpu should be very capable of supporting Xen.
> > >> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5675 @ 3.07GHz (3059.07-MHz K8-class CPU)
> > >> Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x206c2 Family=0x6 Model=0x2c Stepping=2
> > >> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> > >>
> > >> Features2=0x29ee3ff<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,DCA,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI>
> > >>
> > >> AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
> > >> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
> > >> VT-x: PAT,HLT,MTF,PAUSE,EPT,UG,VPID
> > >> TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
> > >>
> > 
> > Looks like this might be the problem:-
> > 
> > > (XEN) [VT-D]Disabling IOMMU due to Intel 5500/5520/X58 Chipset errata
> > > #47, #53
> > 
> > Been in a rush today, but should have looked at that a bit more closely
> > before posting, as istr, saw that  mentioned as a bug eleswhere back
> > from 2015 or so....
> 
> https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX136517
> 
> That has some info on how to work around this issue.  You can turn
> of the interrupt remapping and still have an iommu, though it is
> not going be very effective for passthrough of devices.

Just add iommu=no-intremap to your xen_cmdline in loader.conf.

Roger.