Re: kvm-kmod.git

Avi Kivity
2009-06-01T18:17:46Z

Ryan Harper wrote:
>> So:
>> LINUX= is for the kvm sources (further controlled by whatever branch
>> is checked out)
>> --kerneldir= is for the host kernel
>>
>
> Ah, excellent, I didn't see it documented on the Code page of the wiki
> and I blindly assumed that it went away. Thanks for correction.
>

It actually did go away, but Jan brought it back.

>>> The reason I'm digging is that I'm seeing 64-bit migration failing on
>>> maint/2.6.29 kvm modules, but not on upstream kvm kernel bits and I
>>> wanted to bisect to find where 64-bit migration is fixed so I can
>>> suggest what to pull into maint/2.6.29.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks, that's helpful. How does it fail? maybe I can supply an
>> educated guess.
>>
>
> Migration succeeds, but source and target are frozen (though monitor of
> guest is still interactive.
>
> Nothing interesting in host dmesg, and of course no output from either
> guest (they seemed locked). Reproduced this sort of hang for any number
> of guests (RHEL4u7/8, SLES10 SP2, SLES11, Win2k3-r2, win2k8, etc.) as
> long as they are 64-bit
>

SMP? Uniprocessor?

Try 'info registers' on both source and target and compare. Maybe we
lose some bit in EFER.

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