From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60923) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c6cjZ-0006ZS-0Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 07:21:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c6cjV-0000r0-Qk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 07:21:05 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:46900) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c6cjV-0000qc-Kp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2016 07:21:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 12:20:57 +0000 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Message-ID: <20161115122056.GG2038@work-vm> References: <20161115110956.5393749d@bahia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU postcopy-test failing on ppc64 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: Greg Kurz , Laurent Vivier , Andrea Arcangeli , qemu-devel * Stefan Hajnoczi (stefanha@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Greg Kurz wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:53:35 +0100 > > Laurent Vivier wrote: > > > >> On 14/11/2016 21:52, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > >> > I hit a failure running "make check" on ppc64 for the first time. Ideas? > >> > > >> > Stefan > >> > > >> > commit 682df581c65ed2c1b9e77093e332214ecaa1ee93 > >> > > >> > GTESTER check-qtest-ppc64 > >> > Memory content inconsistency at 5af4000 first_byte = 1b last_byte = 1a > >> > current = 7c hit_edge = 1 > >> > Memory content inconsistency at 5af5000 first_byte = 1b last_byte = 7c > >> > current = 1b hit_edge = 1 > >> > Memory content inconsistency at 5e59000 first_byte = 1b last_byte = 1b > >> > current = 1a hit_edge = 1 > >> > ** > >> > ERROR:tests/postcopy-test.c:345:check_guests_ram: 'bad' should be FALSE > >> > GTester: last random seed: R02S9d79166a1ca7e21940a0f4b0b1255d5b > >> > > >> > >> Are you using KVM PR? > >> > >> it was working fine with TCG and KVM HV. > >> > >> Apparently, USERFAULTFD doesn't work with KVM PR. > >> > >> I've already seen this kind of error with nested KVM on Power: > >> guest in guest with KVM PR in host. > >> > >> This problem was reported on IRC by Greg if I remember correctly (CC:) > >> > > > > Yeah I hit this when running make check in a PPC64 BE guest which > > has kvm_pr loaded. I did not find time to investigate though... I've > > switched to run make check on bare metal POWER7 instead. > > Right, it's POWER7 PPC64 BE with kvm_pr. > > If this should be fixed for QEMU 2.8 please add it to > http://qemu-project.org/Planning/2.8 and I'll track it (i.e. won't > release before it's resolved). > > If this is a known issue that will be in QEMU 2.8 please add it to > http://qemu-project.org/ChangeLog/2.8#Known_issues. I don't think it's new with 2.8 (Laurent?) and I think it's actually a kernel issue that needs fixing. Dave > Stefan -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK