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From: Nikola Ciprich <extmaillist@linuxbox.cz>
To: Gerrit Slomma <roadrunner_gs@web.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz
Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU stuck for ...
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:36:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090329173610.GA10755@nik-comp.linuxbox.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20090329T074937-223@post.gmane.org>

Hi,
I was also experiencing this problem a lot for quite a long time (and for
wide range of KVM versions..)
I might be completely wrong as I'm not sure if it was really the reason,
but i THINK it disappeared when I started to use fully preemptible kernel on host..
You might want to try it...
BR
nik

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 07:51:21AM +0000, Gerrit Slomma wrote:
> Robert Wimmer <r.wimmer <at> tomorrow-focus.de> writes:
> 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > does anyone know how to solve the problem
> > with "BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for ..."?
> > Today I got the messages below during compilation
> > of the kernel modules in a guest. Using kvm84 and Kernel 2.6.29
> > as host kernel and 2.6.28 as guest kernel during the
> > hangup of the guest neither ssh or ping was possible.
> > After about 2 minutes the guest was reachable again
> > and I saw the messages below with "dmesg".
> > 
> > Maybe it is related with my prev. anserwed posting:
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/29677
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Robert
> > 
> > BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s!
> > (...)
> 
> Hello
> 
> Do you use x86_64 or i686?
> Look at my post here http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/29833
> And my Bug-report here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492688.
> I do not have the problems while running but after migrating. Problems with
> stuck CPUs vanish if i686 for the host is used - but i am testing further.
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-29 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-28 23:12 BUG: soft lockup - CPU stuck for Robert Wimmer
2009-03-29  7:51 ` Gerrit Slomma
2009-03-29 17:36   ` Nikola Ciprich [this message]
2009-03-30 18:50     ` Gerrit Slomma
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-30 11:37 Robert Wimmer
2009-03-30 15:55 ` Brian Jackson

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