From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Tomas Racek <tracek@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: x86, nops settings result in kernel crash
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:54:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5034AC61.9030704@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <592618508.2357204.1345541334852.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
On 08/21/2012 12:28 PM, Tomas Racek wrote:
>
> http://fi.muni.cz/~xracek/debian2.img.bz2
>
> Other things are the same.
>
> The runtest.sh sets environment for xfstests and runs test 285 which I wrote and and which should test if FS sends discard requests only on free sectors:
> 285:
> 1. Create loop device and FS on it.
> 2. Populate it with some garbage.
> 3. Get free sectors from FS.
> 4. Run fstrim and look for discard requests via blk tracer.
> 5. Compare free sectors to discard requests.
>
> The test itself can have some issues but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't crash the system. ;-)
Does the following patch help?
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index afb7ff7..ced4534 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static int __init setup_noreplace_paravirt(char *str)
#endif
#ifdef P6_NOP1
-static const unsigned char __initconst_or_module p6nops[] =
+static const unsigned char p6nops[] =
{
P6_NOP1,
P6_NOP2,
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Tomas Racek <tracek@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] x86, nops settings result in kernel crash
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:54:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5034AC61.9030704@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <592618508.2357204.1345541334852.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
On 08/21/2012 12:28 PM, Tomas Racek wrote:
>
> http://fi.muni.cz/~xracek/debian2.img.bz2
>
> Other things are the same.
>
> The runtest.sh sets environment for xfstests and runs test 285 which I wrote and and which should test if FS sends discard requests only on free sectors:
> 285:
> 1. Create loop device and FS on it.
> 2. Populate it with some garbage.
> 3. Get free sectors from FS.
> 4. Run fstrim and look for discard requests via blk tracer.
> 5. Compare free sectors to discard requests.
>
> The test itself can have some issues but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't crash the system. ;-)
Does the following patch help?
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index afb7ff7..ced4534 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static int __init setup_noreplace_paravirt(char *str)
#endif
#ifdef P6_NOP1
-static const unsigned char __initconst_or_module p6nops[] =
+static const unsigned char p6nops[] =
{
P6_NOP1,
P6_NOP2,
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Tomas Racek <tracek@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] x86, nops settings result in kernel crash
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:54:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5034AC61.9030704@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <592618508.2357204.1345541334852.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
On 08/21/2012 12:28 PM, Tomas Racek wrote:
>
> http://fi.muni.cz/~xracek/debian2.img.bz2
>
> Other things are the same.
>
> The runtest.sh sets environment for xfstests and runs test 285 which I wrote and and which should test if FS sends discard requests only on free sectors:
> 285:
> 1. Create loop device and FS on it.
> 2. Populate it with some garbage.
> 3. Get free sectors from FS.
> 4. Run fstrim and look for discard requests via blk tracer.
> 5. Compare free sectors to discard requests.
>
> The test itself can have some issues but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't crash the system. ;-)
Does the following patch help?
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index afb7ff7..ced4534 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static int __init setup_noreplace_paravirt(char *str)
#endif
#ifdef P6_NOP1
-static const unsigned char __initconst_or_module p6nops[] =
+static const unsigned char p6nops[] =
{
P6_NOP1,
P6_NOP2,
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-22 9:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1104118228.1760802.1345121009530.JavaMail.root@redhat.com>
2012-08-16 13:35 ` x86, nops settings result in kernel crash Tomas Racek
2012-08-16 13:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Tomas Racek
2012-08-16 13:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-16 13:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Borislav Petkov
2012-08-16 18:45 ` Tomas Racek
2012-08-16 18:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Tomas Racek
2012-08-16 18:53 ` Alan Cox
2012-08-16 18:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alan Cox
2012-08-16 21:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-16 21:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " H. Peter Anvin
2012-08-17 7:42 ` Tomas Racek
2012-08-17 7:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Tomas Racek
2012-08-16 21:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-08-16 21:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2012-08-16 21:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-08-17 7:43 ` Tomas Racek
2012-08-17 7:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Tomas Racek
2012-08-17 7:43 ` Tomas Racek
2012-08-17 8:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-17 8:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Borislav Petkov
2012-08-17 8:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-20 17:13 ` Tomas Racek
2012-08-20 17:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Tomas Racek
2012-08-20 17:13 ` Tomas Racek
2012-08-21 7:22 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-08-21 7:22 ` Michael Tokarev
2012-08-21 9:28 ` Tomas Racek
2012-08-21 9:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Tomas Racek
2012-08-21 9:28 ` Tomas Racek
2012-08-22 9:54 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-08-22 9:54 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 9:54 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 10:03 ` [PATCH] x86, alternative: fix p6 nops on non-modular kernels Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 10:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 10:21 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/alternatives: Fix " tip-bot for Avi Kivity
2012-08-22 10:33 ` [PATCH] x86, alternative: fix " Tomas Racek
2012-08-22 10:33 ` [Qemu-devel] " Tomas Racek
2012-08-22 10:33 ` Tomas Racek
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