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Re: init receiving SIGILL on XEN3_DOM0/amd64



Manuel Bouyer wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:09:54PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 05:59:02PM +1000, James Laird wrote:
Hi,

I'm having trouble with a fresh -current build, running as Dom0 on amd64. init keeps getting bonked with signal 4 and restarting. Someone else had the same trouble with a XEN3PAE_DOMU, which was magically resolved when something changed in CVS ( http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2008/05/01/msg002169.html ).

I've had a quick poke through the source tree, but I can't see anything obvious. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look for the trouble?
Not sure. A current kernel built 2 days ago works fine for me as
dom0 for amd64.

What are the normal conditions where the kernels sends SIGILL to userland?

When the CPU sends an illegal intruction trap, I guess.


In that case, I have a wild guess:
sysenter is an illegal opcode on amd64. The difference is, AMD CPUs throw an exception, Intel CPUs don't.
Is sysenter used somewhere?

Christoph


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