From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-51 release Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:22:42 +0100 Message-ID: <4734F9D2.7030802@bppiac.hu> References: <4731F5B5.1000108@qumranet.com> <473435B6.1000503@bppiac.hu> <473475C2.1070908@cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel , Avi Kivity To: david ahern Return-path: In-Reply-To: <473475C2.1070908-FYB4Gu1CFyUAvxtiuMwx3w@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 that would be really sad, since what i like in kvm that i don't have to compile kernel, so be able to follow upstream kernel updates:-((( david ahern wrote: > I found that I had to move to a newer kernel (2.6.23.1 is what I used) to get SMP guests to boot on RHEL5 hosts. It appears to be an issue with the host kernel. > > david > > > Farkas Levente wrote: >> Avi Kivity wrote: >>> If you're having trouble on AMD systems, please try this out. >> this version worse than kvm-50:-( >> setup: >> - host: >> - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz >> - Intel S3000AHV >> - 8GB RAM >> - CentOS-5 >> - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 x86_64 64bit >> - guest-1: >> - CentOS-5 >> - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 i386 32bit >> - guest-2: >> - CentOS-5 >> - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 x86_64 64bit >> - guest-3: >> - Mandrake-9 >> - kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk 32bit >> - guest-4: >> - Windows XP Professional 32bit >> smp not working on any centos guest (guests are hang during boot). even >> the host crash. the worst thing is the host crash during boot with >> another stack trace which i was not able to log. >> i really would like to see some kind of stable version other then >> kvm-36. i see there is a huge ongoing work on ia64, virtio, libkmv and >> arch rearrange, but wouldn't it be better to fix these basic issues >> first? like running two smp guest (32 and 64) on 64 smp host, just to >> boot until the login screen. >> this is when the guest stop and the host dump it: >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> Ignoring de-assert INIT to vcpu 1 >> SIPI to vcpu 1 vector 0x06 >> SIPI to vcpu 1 vector 0x06 >> eth0: topology change detected, propagating >> eth0: port 3(vnet1) entering forwarding state >> Ignoring de-assert INIT to vcpu 2 >> SIPI to vcpu 2 vector 0x06 >> SIPI to vcpu 2 vector 0x06 >> Ignoring de-assert INIT to vcpu 3 >> SIPI to vcpu 3 vector 0x06 >> SIPI to vcpu 3 vector 0x06 >> BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! >> >> Call Trace: >> [] softlockup_tick+0xdb/0xed >> [] update_process_times+0x42/0x68 >> [] smp_local_timer_interrupt+0x23/0x47 >> [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x41/0x47 >> [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0x6c >> [] :kvm:kvm_flush_remote_tlbs+0x16e/0x188 >> [] :kvm:kvm_flush_remote_tlbs+0x15b/0x188 >> [] :kvm:ack_flush+0x0/0x1 >> [] :kvm:kvm_mmu_pte_write+0x1fc/0x330 >> [] :kvm:emulator_write_emulated_onepage+0x85/0xe5 >> [] :kvm:x86_emulate_insn+0x2e03/0x407f >> [] __pte_alloc+0x122/0x142 >> [] :kvm_intel:vmcs_readl+0x17/0x1c >> [] :kvm:emulate_instruction+0x152/0x290 >> [] :kvm:kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x5e/0xb4 >> [] :kvm:kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x28a/0x3a6 >> [] :kvm:kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0xc3/0x388 >> [] __wake_up_common+0x3e/0x68 >> [] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x8/0x9 >> [] avc_has_perm+0x43/0x55 >> [] inode_has_perm+0x56/0x63 >> [] :kvm:kvm_vm_ioctl+0x277/0x290 >> [] :kvm_intel:vmx_vcpu_put+0x0/0xa3 >> [] file_has_perm+0x94/0xa3 >> [] do_ioctl+0x21/0x6b >> [] vfs_ioctl+0x248/0x261 >> [] sys_ioctl+0x59/0x78 >> [] tracesys+0xd1/0xdc >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/