From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.28.4 freezing on a 32-bits x86 Thinkpad T43p
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:14:44 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090211201444.GA14274@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090211195038.GC25968@elte.hu>
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:50:38PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:
>
> > Here is a new backtrace, taken with a huge amount of debugging active, which still
> > points to an interrupt handler nested over kvm_mmu_pte_write as the culprit. It's
> > weird that the kvm code gets called on my modest Pentium M laptop, which I think
> > has no VT-x support at all. I am not running any KVM VMs on this machine. The
> > problem still happens on 2.6.28.4, and Slub redzones did not identify any memory
> > corruption. This could be due to kvm_mmu_pte_write which either should not be
> > called at all, or due to improper interrupt disabling in this function.
This code is supposed to function on KVM guests only (kvm_mmu_pte_write
= paravirtual pte update).
There's some really screwed if its executing in a native machine.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-04 21:11 [BUG] Linux 2.6.28.3 freezing on a 32-bits x86 Thinkpad T43p Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-04 21:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-11 19:31 ` [BUG] Linux 2.6.28.4 " Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-11 19:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-11 20:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 4:50 ` [ltt-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 4:50 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 14:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-12 14:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-12 15:07 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 15:07 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-11 20:14 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2009-02-11 20:11 ` Avi Kivity
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