Re: regression - 2.6.36 -> 2.6.37 - kvm - 32bit SMP guests don't boot

[Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>]

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> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:17:24AM -0500, Zachary Amsden wrote:
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>> On 02/28/2011 09:32 AM, Nikola Ciprich wrote:
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>>>> Does the bug you are hitting manifest on both Intel and AMD platforms?
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>>> I don't have any AMD box here, I'll try this out at my home box.
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>>>> Further, do the systems you are hitting this on have stable or unstable
>>>> TSCs?
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>>> how do I find this out? I don't see any warning about TSC in guest, but I've
>>> just started it..
>>> n.
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>> Before worrying about the guest, is the host TSC stable?  What is the
>> host clocksource?
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> not sure, I'm not setting anything specifically, is this snippet of dmesg relevant:
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> [    1.148829] HPET: 8 timers in total, 5 timers will be used for per-cpu timer
> [    1.148934] hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 0
> [    1.149331] hpet0: 8 comparators, 64-bit 14.318180 MHz counter
> [    1.151831] hpet: hpet2 irq 40 for MSI
> [    1.151962] hpet: hpet3 irq 41 for MSI
> [    1.155930] hpet: hpet4 irq 42 for MSI
> [    1.159937] hpet: hpet5 irq 43 for MSI
> [    1.163943] hpet: hpet6 irq 44 for MSI
> [    1.175955] Switching to clocksource tsc
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> so I guess I'm using hpet?
> n.
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Looks like you are using tsc based on the last line.  Can you tell us 
please

cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource

and grep -i dmesg for these keywords: TSC, clock, hpet, stable, khz, kvm