Re: guests locking up issue

[Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:29:59PM -0500, Brian Jackson wrote:
> I'm having a problem recently with my guests freezing. It seems to happen 
> within a few hours of booting the guest. I can still access the monitor and 
> check stuff in there. The kernel that comes with Ubuntu 8.04 (2.6.24) doesn't 
> have the same issue.
> 
> I'm a bit out of my league here as far as figuring out what to do about this. 
> Any help tracking this down would be appreciated. (I'm trying the 
> no-kvm-irqchip and no-kvm-pit options now, but I think I've tried them in the 
> past and they didn't do anything)
> 
> Host:
> Core 2 Duo 2.5G
> 4G ram
> Ubuntu 8.04 x64
> 2.6.26-rc5 (kvm git tree from earlier today)
> kvm userland from earlier today as well
> (git describe says kvm-70 for both)
> 
> Guest:
> Ubuntu 8.04 x64
> 2.6.26-rc5 (same as host)
> qemu-system-x86_64 -m 440M -vnc :1 -std-vga -drive 
> file=/dev/vm_space/test1,if=virtio,boot=on -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-kvm-2.6.26-rc5 -initrd /boot/initrd.img-kvm-2.6.26-rc5 -append "root=/dev/vda" -net 
> nic,model=e1000 -net tap

Can you please backout commit 695a86229a2c98918ad3d5059f1a141bdf18349c
for a try?

$ git-diff-tree -p 695a86229a2c98918ad3d5059f1a141bdf18349c | patch -p1 -R