No XEN domU support in 32bit virtual flavour

Bug #519448 reported by Stefan Bader
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linux (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Andy Whitcroft
Karmic
Fix Released
Wishlist
Stefan Bader

Bug Description

CONFIG_XEN is getting disabled in the generic-pae (32bit) flavour as CONFIG_M586TSC is not set. So no XEN drivers are included in the virtual image.

Stefan Bader (smb)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote :

From: Andy Whitcroft <email address hidden>
To: Ubuntu Kernel Team <email address hidden>
Subject: Karmic/Lucid i386 virtual flavour

There has been some discussion about XEN not working with the 32bit kernels
in both Karmic and Lucid it seems that when we moved from having a server
flavour to having a generic-pae flavour in 32bit we moved from M686 to
M586 for that PAE based kernel. XEN dom-U now does not work because
it is dependant on TSC support in the processor. Note that the Jaunty
server flavour config was CONFIG_M686 which includes TSC automatically.
It does appear from Wikipedia that PAE support comes after TSC support in
the Pentium timeline and therefore we may well be able to enable TSC and
XEN by switching the generic-pae config over to CONFIG_M586TSC mode, as
to have PAE capabilities you must also have a TSC. M586TSC is basically
just M586 (what we have now) plus TSC.

For TSC:
 The Time Stamp Counter is a 64-bit register present on all x86
 processors since the Pentium. It counts the number of ticks
 since reset. Instruction RDTSC returns the TSC in EDX:EAX. Its
 opcode is 0F 31.[1] Pentium competitors such as the Cyrix 6x86
 did not always have a TSC and may consider RDTSC an illegal
 instruction. Cyrix included a Time Stamp Counter in their MII

For PAE:
 In computing, Physical Address Extension (PAE) is a feature of
 some x86 and x86-64 processors that enables the use of more than
 4 gigabytes[1] of physical memory to be used in 32-bit systems
 - given appropriate operating system support. PAE is provided
 by Intel Pentium Pro (and above) CPUs - including all later
 Pentium-series processors except the 400 MHz bus versions of the
 Pentium M, as well as by other processors such as the AMD Athlon
 and later AMD processor models with similar or more advanced
 versions of the same architecture.

I think this should be safe for Lucid, Karmic may be a little more
difficult. I propose we make the change in Lucid and get some miles on
it in the Alphas before we decide on Karmic.

Comments?

-apw

Changed in linux (Ubuntu Karmic):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Andy Whitcroft (apw)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Stefan Bader (smb)
Changed in linux (Ubuntu Karmic):
assignee: nobody → Stefan Bader (stefan-bader-canonical)
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.32-13.18

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linux (2.6.32-13.18) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * Revert "enforcer -- make the enforcement configuration common"
  * Revert "(pre-stable) Input: ALPS - add interleaved protocol support
    (Dell E6x00 series)"
  * Revert "(pre-stable) driver-core: fix devtmpfs crash on s390"
  * Revert "(pre-stable) Driver-Core: devtmpfs - set root directory mode to
    0755"
  * Revert "SAUCE: Adds support for COMPAL JHL90 webcam"
  * Revert "SAUCE: fix kernel oops in VirtualBox during paravirt patching"
  * Revert "SAUCE: make fc transport removal of target configurable"
  * enforcer -- make the enforcement configuration common
  * getabis -- add preempt flavour to the list
  * [Config] enforce DEVTMPFS options
  * [Config] armel -- cleanup to-be builtin modules
  * [Config] cleanup ports configs
  * [Config] enable CRYPTO_GHASH_CLMUL_NI_INTEL
    - LP: #485536
  * add printdebian target to find branch target
  * distclean -- do not remove debian.env
  * [Config] generic-pae switch to M586TSC
    - LP: #519448
  * git-ubuntu-log -- commonise duplicated log handling
  * git-ubuntu-log -- tighten up Bug: NNNN matching
  * git-ubuntu-log -- sort the bug numbers

  [ Chris Wilson ]

  * (pre-stable) drm/i915: Increase fb alignment to 64k
    - LP: #404064

  [ Eric Miao ]

  * arm -- enable ubuntu/ directory

  [ Huang Ying ]

  * SAUCE: crypto: ghash - Add PCLMULQDQ accelerated implementation
  * SAUCE: crypto: ghash-intel - Fix building failure on x86_32

  [ Loïc Minier ]

  * [Config] cleanup preempt configuration
  * [Config] versatile: Fix video output
    - LP: #517594
  * [Config] armel DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR=32768
  * [Config] Large update to armel/versatile
  * [Config] versatile: Add RTC support
  * [Config] armel: Enable NEON
  * [Config] versatile: Builtin MMC support
  * [Config] versatile Builtin SCSI controller
  * [Config] armel Disable dma_cache_sync callers
  * [Config] armel Disable asm/time.h users
  * [Config] armel Disable out of range udelay()
  * [Config] armel Disable flush_cache_range() users
  * [Config] armel -- Enable ubuntu/ drivers

  [ Steve Conklin ]

  * SAUCE: drm/i915: Add display hotplug event on Ironlake
  * SAUCE: drm/i915: Add ACPI OpRegion support for Ironlake

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "[Upstream]: oprofile/x86: add Xeon 7500 series support"
  * Revert "Revert "[Bluetooth] Eliminate checks for impossible conditions
    in IRQ handler""
  * clockevent: Don't remove broadcast device when cpu is dead
  * clockevents: Add missing include to pacify sparse
  * ACPI: don't cond_resched if irq is disabled
  * be2net: Add support for next generation of BladeEngine device.
  * be2net: Add the new PCI IDs to PCI_DEVICE_TABLE.
  * mpt2sas: New device SAS2208 support is added
  * ar9170: Add support for D-Link DWA 160 A2
  * powerpc/fsl: Add PCI device ids for new QoirQ chips
  * davinci: dm646x: Add support for 3.x silicon revision
  * Input: ALPS - add interleaved protocol support (Dell E6x00 series)
  * Driver-Core: devtmpfs - set root directory mode to 0755
  * driver-core: fix devtmpfs crash on s390
  * vfs: get_sb_single() ...

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Please test proposed package

Accepted linux into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

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This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.31-21.59

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linux (2.6.31-21.59) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * [Config] generic-pae switch to M586TSC
    - LP: #519448

  [ Chris Wilson ]

  * (pre-stable) drm/i915: Increase fb alignment to 64k
    - LP: #404064

  [ Colin Ian King ]

  * Input: i8042 - bypass AUX IRQ delivery test on laptops
    - LP: #534448

  [ Jerone Young ]

  * SAUCE: Fix volume hotkeys for Dell Studio 1557
    - LP: #465250

  [ Mirsal Ennaime ]

  * SAUCE: aufs: Fix header files inclusion in debug.h
    - LP: #517151

  [ Stefan Bader ]

  * [Config] Enable all CGROUP configuration options
    - LP: #480739

  [ Surbhi Palande ]

  * Revert "[Upstream] acerhdf: Limit modalias matching to supported
    boards"
    - LP: #509730
  * [Config] ext3 defaults to ordered mode
    - LP: #510067

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Config] Fix sub-flavours package conflicts
    - LP: #454827

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * PCI/cardbus: Add a fixup hook and fix powerpc
    - LP: #455723
  * fnctl: f_modown should call write_lock_irqsave/restore
    - LP: #519436
  * ACPI: enable C2 and Turbo-mode on Nehalem notebooks on A/C
    - LP: #516325
  * tg3: Add 57788, remove 57720
    - LP: #515390
  * HID: ignore all recent SoundGraph iMON devices
    - LP: #488443
  * Input: ALPS - add interleaved protocol support (Dell E6x00 series)
    - LP: #296610
  * acerhdf: limit modalias matching to supported
    - LP: #509730
  * ASoC: Do not write to invalid registers on the wm9712.
    - LP: #509730
  * cifs: NULL out tcon, pSesInfo, and srvTcp pointers when chasing DFS
    referrals
    - LP: #509730
  * clockevents: Prevent clockevent_devices list corruption on cpu hotplug
    - LP: #509730
  * dma: at_hdmac: correct incompatible type for argument 1 of
    'spin_lock_bh'
    - LP: #509730
  * drivers/net/usb: Correct code taking the size of a pointer
    - LP: #509730
  * Libertas: fix buffer overflow in lbs_get_essid()
    - LP: #509730
  * md: Fix unfortunate interaction with evms
    - LP: #509730
  * pata_cmd64x: fix overclocking of UDMA0-2 modes
    - LP: #509730
  * pata_hpt3x2n: fix clock turnaround
    - LP: #509730
  * SCSI: fc class: fix fc_transport_init error handling
    - LP: #509730
  * sound: sgio2audio/pdaudiocf/usb-audio: initialize PCM buffer
    - LP: #509730
  * USB: emi62: fix crash when trying to load EMI 6|2 firmware
    - LP: #509730
  * USB: Fix a bug on appledisplay.c regarding signedness
    - LP: #509730
  * USB: musb: gadget_ep0: avoid SetupEnd interrupt
    - LP: #509730
  * USB: option: support hi speed for modem Haier CE100
    - LP: #490068, #509730
  * x86, cpuid: Add "volatile" to asm in native_cpuid()
    - LP: #509730
  * e100: Use pci pool to work around GFP_ATOMIC order 5 memory allocation
    failure
    - LP: #509730
  * e100: Fix broken cbs accounting due to missing memset.
    - LP: #509730
  * hostap: Revert a toxic part of the conversion to net_device_ops
    - LP: #509730
  * hwmon: (fschmd) Fix check on unsigned in watchdog_write()
    - LP: #509730
  * hwmon: (sht15) Off-by-one error in array index + incorrect constants
    - LP: #509730
  * i2c/tsl2550: Fix...

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Changed in linux (Ubuntu Karmic):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Yuhong Bao (yuhongbao-386) wrote :

I think PAE kernels should always be compiled as at least M686, as PAE by definition require a Pentium Pro or later processor.

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