Re: qemu-kvm-1.1.0 crashing with kernel 3.5.0-rc6

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 07/26/2012 02:58 PM, Chris Clayton wrote:

>> It looks like general memory corruption.  Is this repeatable?  What's
>> the guest uptime when it happens (i.e. is it immediate?)
> 
> I've just done 10 runs of WinXP SP3 and 5 of them crashed. Three crashed
> early as XP was starting up - well before the desktop would have
> appeared. The other two crashed as XP was closing down, having been
> running for a few minutes (but not doing much).
> 
> The error messages seen through dmesg are:
> 
> qemu-kvm[12778] general protection ip:b6c43d77 sp:b5e800fc error:0 in
> libc-2.16.so[b6b06000+1b4000]
> qemu-kvm[12813] general protection ip:b6bf6d77 sp:b54ff0fc error:0 in
> libc-2.16.so[b6ab9000+1b4000]
> qemu-kvm[12986] general protection ip:b6cd3d77 sp:b55ff0fc error:0 in
> libc-2.16.so[b6b96000+1b4000]
> qemu-kvm[13045] general protection ip:b6c91d77 sp:b54ff0fc error:0 in
> libc-2.16.so[b6b54000+1b4000]
> qemu-kvm[13225] general protection ip:b6c5bd77 sp:b54ff0fc error:0 in
> libc-2.16.so[b6b1e000+1b4000]
> 
> The other 5 were OK, although I only did a bit of web browsing for  few
> minutes with IE.

Failures always in the same place (I'm guess the variations are due to
PIE -- please configure with --disable-pie for future tests).

Please generate a core and look around, esp. in frame 3
(type_table_lookup).  Also try to dissect type_table (you may need to
install the glib debug symbols for this).



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