Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU postcopy-test failing on ppc64

[Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 11:14:57 +0000
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:53:35 +0100
> > Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com> 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.
> 

And you cannot install a PPC64 BE distro on this POWER7 host and use
kvm_hv instead ?

> 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.
> 
> Stefan