From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: syscall rmdir hangs with autofs Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:55:19 +0300 Message-ID: <4C449187.5020302@redhat.com> References: <20100719114034.62BDD30303F5@mail.linux-ag.de> <4C444358.8010500@redhat.com> <20100719124847.0CDBBA005F@mail.linux-ag.de> <4C444E78.8030907@redhat.com> <20100719134558.A0CD2A005F@mail.linux-ag.de> <4C445A94.2050802@redhat.com> <20100719144750.334F2303001B@mail.linux-ag.de> <4C446942.6090907@redhat.com> <20100719152518.641BAB001A@mail.linux-ag.de> <4C446F20.4060106@redhat.com> <20100719153816.1E33FB0016@mail.linux-ag.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Sebastian Hetze Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:27273 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936476Ab0GSRz1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:55:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100719153816.1E33FB0016@mail.linux-ag.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/19/2010 06:38 PM, Sebastian Hetze wrote: > >> Well, EPT makes it unlikely that there's an mmu bug involved. >> >> Is the guest smp? Can you try UP? >> > yes, the guest starts with -smp 6 > > Since the system is quite busy and the problem occurs only ever two > weeks or so, UP is no option. > I see. >> Can you try 2.6.32.latest in the guest? >> > This we can certainly do. Is 2.6.32.16 your recommendation > or will any newer kernel do also? > > 2.6.32.16 is probably the stablest out there. Note that there's a problem exposed with certain versions of gcc, I recommend compiling with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=n, or the kernel may fail to boot. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.