From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Kernel panic when loading kvm-amd Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 15:16:05 -0500 Message-ID: <465B3885.2070401@codemonkey.ws> References: <200705280330.19290.paran@lysator.liu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?P=E4r_Andersson?= Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200705280330.19290.paran-SamgB31n2u5IcsJQ0EH25Q@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org P=E4r Andersson wrote: > Hi. > > I am getting a kernel panic when loading the kvm-amd module. I have talke= d a = > little about this with aliguori on IRC and according to him the panic occ= urs = > when KVM enables EFER.SVME. > = I find this very odd. Setting EFER.SVME shouldn't do any harm even if = it's already set. The only thing I can think of would be that SVM = wasn't available but this is an X2 so it really ought to be. Anyone have any clue why setting EFER.SVME would cause an OOPS? Regards, Anthony Liguori > Computer information: > AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+, 65nm, Brisbane. > Abit KN9 motherboard (nforce4) > Ubuntu 7.04 x86_64 > Kernel version 2.6.20-15-generic (latest Ubuntu kernel for 7.04) > > Unfortunately my motherboard does not have rs232 so I can't attach a seri= al = > console to get the text of the panic. Instead I have taken a photo of the = > screen, not very good but it is the best I can do. This "screenshot" toge= ther = > with some more hardware information (output from dmesg, /proc/cpuinfo etc= ) is = > here: > > http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~paran213/kvm/2007-05-27/ > > The screenshot is when using KVM-25, I get the same result using KVM-16(f= rom = > ubuntu packages) and KVM-24. > > regards > P=E4r Andersson > = > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel > = ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/