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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>,
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
	Luwei Kang <luwei.kang@intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Guest OSes die simultaneously (bisected)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 09:07:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZZbl7KqomDOR+HUC@tassilo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b2775ea5-20c9-4dff-b4b1-bbb212065a22@paulmck-laptop>

> My (completely random) guess is that there is some rare combination
> of events that causes this code to fail.  If so, is it feasible to
> construct a test that makes this rare combination of events less rare,
> so that similar future bugs are caught more quickly?

Yes, I tested something similar before. What you need is create lots of 
PMIs with perf (running perf top should be enough) and a workload that creates
lots of exits in a guest (e.g. running fio on a virtio device). This 
will stress test this particular path.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-01-04 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-03 22:22 [BUG] Guest OSes die simultaneously (bisected) Paul E. McKenney
2024-01-03 23:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-01-04  0:24   ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-04  1:00     ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-01-04 14:50       ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-01-04 14:59         ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-01-04 16:06           ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-01-04 16:32             ` Paolo Bonzini
2024-01-04 17:25               ` Sean Christopherson
2024-01-04 19:23               ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-01-04 17:07             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2024-01-04 10:01 ` Breno Leitao

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