Re: [Bug Report] Linux v6.15-rc7 boot failure on Xen-4.17

[Xin Li]

> On May 27, 2025, at 11:36 AM, Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 27.05.25 19:54, Xin Li wrote:
>> On 5/27/2025 10:46 AM, Pawan Gupta wrote:
>>>> Attached is the serial console log and my kernel config.
>>> Serial logs aren't telling much. I do not have a Xen setup to test, without
>>> Xen the config that you provided is booting a KVM guest just fine.
>> Yeah, as I replied to Juergen, the same kernel binary boots fine as
>> "native".
>> Unfortunately when booting as dom0 on Xen, it keeps rebooting w/o
>> helpful log.
> 
> What about booting Xen on bare metal, i.e. no KVM being involved?

The same exact problem happens on Intel Simics.  And I got to see it’s a NX page fault in dom0 kernel during apply alternatives.

It takes a while for me to set it up on bare metal so it won’t happen so soon.

A more serious question in my mind right now is that who are acutely testing latest vanilla Linux on xen?