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* KVM guest crashes
@ 2009-01-20 15:49 Alexander Graf
  2009-01-20 20:07 ` Avi Kivity
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 18+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Graf @ 2009-01-20 15:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm@vger.kernel.org; +Cc: Avi Kivity, Marcelo Tosatti, Joerg Roedel, Sheng Yang

Hi list,

recently I've been hitting some KVM bugs others seem to have reported as
well, including

- CIFS timeouts
- Stuck ?? errors
- Random segmentation faults in the guest

so I figured, I'll put together a stress test that can be used to
reproduce these issues. This is done by using a CIFS mount on the host
and unpacking data from that mount to the mount. I have been able to
bring kvm down to its knees a lot just by doing this.
Simply run the test in an endless-loop. FWIW enabling NPT helps
triggering the issue.

The guest kernels included here are openSUSE 11.0 (2.6.25) and 11.1
(2.6.27) kernels.

Find the tests here: http://alex.csgraf.de/kvm-tests.tar.bz2
And some logs here (NPT enabled): http://alex.csgraf.de/kvm-logs.tar.bz2

I'm somewhat lost on the reason for these failures, so if you do have
some time on your hands, please give me a hand debugging this! If I'd
had to guess, I'd say it's either an APIC issue and/or guest memory
corruption.

Alex

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2009-01-20 15:49 KVM guest crashes Alexander Graf
2009-01-20 20:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-20 20:20   ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-21  8:14   ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-21  9:05     ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-21  9:36       ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-21 10:44         ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-22 20:29         ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-22 20:36           ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-22 20:55             ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-23 16:36               ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-23 22:36           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-01-24  7:42             ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-24 13:06               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-01-24 14:30                 ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-26 15:53             ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-26 16:21               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-01-26 16:33                 ` Alexander Graf

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