Re: [KVM][PATCH] smp_processor_id() and sleeping functions used in invalid context

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm testing KVM on a Core2 CPU. I'm running kernel 2.6.20-git (pulled
> few hours ago), configured with SMP and PREEMPT.
>
> I'm hitting 2 different warnings:
> BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000001] code: kvm/7726
> caller is vmx_create_vcpu+0x9/0x2f [kvm_intel]
>
>   

[...]

> vmx_create_vcpu calls alloc_vmcs which uses smp_processor_id() in
> preemptible context and pass the result to alloc_vmcs_cpu(); at a later
> point the function may be running on a different CPU (hence the result
> of cpu_to_node may be meaningless).
>
> Second one:
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> /home/kronos/src/linux-2.6.git/mm/slab.c:3034
> in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> 1 lock held by kvm/12706:
>  #0:  (&vcpu->mutex){--..}, at: [<f1b68d02>] kvm_dev_ioctl+0x113/0xf97
> [kvm]
>  [<b015c32a>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x1b/0x6f
>   
[...]

There are patches for both (I think) flying around.  They should land in 
Linus' tree in a few days.

Thanks,

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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