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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Pietsch <stefan.pietsch@lsexperts.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel 3.10.1 - "NMI received for unknown reason"
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:31:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130730053134.GG28372@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F6D578.5030105@sp.consulting.lsexperts.de>

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:50:00PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote:
> On 29.07.2013 11:16, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:09:51AM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote:
> >> On 26.07.2013 20:39, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 08:25:19PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote:
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>>
> >>>> starting a virtual machine (Debian sid) with KVM on my host running
> >>>> kernel 3.10.1 (Debian 3.10-1-686-pae) produces these messages:
> >>>>
> >>> Are those messages printed by a host or a guest?
> >>
> >> The host shows the messages.
> >>
> >>>> [  765.522920] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 0.
> >>>> [  765.522927] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
> >>>> [  765.522930] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> >>>> [  770.487732] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21 on CPU 0.
> >>>> [  770.487740] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
> >>>> [  770.487742] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> >>>> [  846.340966] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 1.
> >>>> [  846.340973] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
> >>>> [  846.340976] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> >>>> [  847.563023] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 0.
> >>>> [  847.563029] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
> >>>> [  847.563032] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> >>
> >> Is it safe to ignore them?
> >>
> > They should not happen. What is the last kernel version you tried that
> > does not produce them? Can you verify that they do not happen without
> > guest running? What is the qemu command line you are using to start the
> > guest and what "cat /proc/cpuinfo" looks like in the guest?
> 
> The Debian wheezy kernel (3.2.46) does not show this behaviour.
> It is directly related to KVM and I found out that replacing the option
> "-cpu coreduo" with "-cpu kvm32" does not generate the NMI messages.
> 
What happen if you run perf on your host (perf record -a)?
Do you see same NMI messages?

--
			Gleb.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-30  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-26 18:25 kernel 3.10.1 - "NMI received for unknown reason" Stefan Pietsch
2013-07-26 18:39 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-29  9:09   ` Stefan Pietsch
2013-07-29  9:16     ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-29 20:50       ` Stefan Pietsch
2013-07-30  5:31         ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2013-07-31  9:10           ` Stefan Pietsch
2013-07-31  9:20             ` Gleb Natapov
2013-08-02  6:24               ` Stefan Pietsch
2013-08-04 12:44                 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-08-09 19:14                   ` Stefan Pietsch
2013-08-25 11:45                     ` Gleb Natapov
2013-08-26 21:48                       ` Stefan Pietsch

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