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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Jim Paris <jim-XrPbb/hENzg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: soft lockup after stop/cont
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:04:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <470C87AB.6050900@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071010080152.GA27601-lSbMZ+N7itA@public.gmane.org>

Jim Paris wrote:
> If I stop KVM in the monitor with "stop", wait a minute, and do
> "cont", a Linux guest gives me a "BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0".
> Is that expected behavior?  

No.

> What isn't virtualized that allows it to
> detect that?  The host is a core 2 duo.
>
>   

It may be that the timer correction code detects that zillions of timer
interrupts have not been serviced by the guest so it floods the guest
with these interrupts.  Does -no-kvm-irqchip help?

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-10  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-10  8:01 soft lockup after stop/cont Jim Paris
     [not found] ` <20071010080152.GA27601-lSbMZ+N7itA@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10  8:04   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
     [not found]     ` <470C87AB.6050900-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10  8:50       ` Dong, Eddie
     [not found]         ` <10EA09EFD8728347A513008B6B0DA77A023643BD-wq7ZOvIWXbNpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10  9:09           ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]             ` <470C96B2.3080905-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10  9:11               ` Dong, Eddie
     [not found]                 ` <10EA09EFD8728347A513008B6B0DA77A02364404-wq7ZOvIWXbNpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10  9:18                   ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]                     ` <470C98EB.1080602-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10  9:57                       ` Dong, Eddie
     [not found]                         ` <10EA09EFD8728347A513008B6B0DA77A0236442D-wq7ZOvIWXbNpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-10 10:06                           ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]                             ` <470CA429.2080607-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-11  1:17                               ` Dong, Eddie
2007-10-10 18:54       ` Jim Paris
     [not found]         ` <20071010185443.GA14525-lSbMZ+N7itA@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-11  9:03           ` Carsten Otte
     [not found]             ` <470DE6F8.9090801-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-11  9:29               ` Dong, Eddie
     [not found]                 ` <10EA09EFD8728347A513008B6B0DA77A02364AD6-wq7ZOvIWXbNpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-11 10:57                   ` Carsten Otte
     [not found]                     ` <470E01A2.104-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-10-11 16:18                       ` Jan Glauber1

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