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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel oops in host caused by mmaping RAM
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:09:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA4BF6D.7000607@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinOOPAPmnzyNtX69V9FXrjsR_4rTQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2011-04-12 21:41, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've tried using mmap to map the RAM of a guest instead of
> posix_memalign which is used both in the kvm tool and qemu.
> 
> Doing so caused a kernel Oops, which happens every time I run the code
> and was confirmed both on 2.6.38 and the latest git build of 2.6.39.
> 

Can you share the test case that triggers it? That's easier than
guessing what you did precisely.

Thanks,
Jan


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-12 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-12 19:41 Kernel oops in host caused by mmaping RAM Sasha Levin
2011-04-12 21:09 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2011-04-13 12:50   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-13 12:58     ` Sasha Levin
2011-04-12 23:27 ` [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Ensure that vmx_create_vcpu always returns proper error Jan Kiszka
2011-04-16 14:50   ` Marcelo Tosatti

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