From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] ioeventfd: Introduce KVM_IOEVENTFD_FLAG_SOCKET
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:23:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1EEDBB.10206@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310649431.9498.28.camel@jaguar>
On 07/14/2011 04:17 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >
> > I still don't follow. The guest oopses? dmesg | less. An issue with
> > tools/kvm? gdb -p `pgrep kvm`.
>
> When I was debugging tools/kvm virtio code, I used to 'instrument' the
> guest kernel with printk() calls which helped a lot.
>
Sure, but do you really need it spewing out the serial port all the time?
> Also, a bug in tools/kvm can manifest in many interesting ways in the
> guest kernel during boot, for example. You can't do dmesg then and gdb
> won't save you. I think you've lived too long in the table KVM and Qemu
> land to remember how important reliable printk() is for development.
I guess. Also I've switched to trace_printk() since it's much nicer
(and intergrates with other ftrace features).
And again, I'm not against tools/kvm optimizing serial. I just want
better justification for socket-mmio.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-14 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-06 4:37 [PATCH 1/5] ioeventfd: Remove natural sized length limitation Sasha Levin
2011-07-06 4:37 ` [PATCH 2/5] ioeventfd: Add helper functions for reading and writing Sasha Levin
2011-07-06 4:37 ` [PATCH 3/5] ioeventfd: Introduce KVM_IOEVENTFD_FLAG_READ Sasha Levin
2011-07-06 4:37 ` [PATCH 4/5] ioeventfd: Introduce KVM_IOEVENTFD_FLAG_NOWRITE Sasha Levin
2011-07-06 4:37 ` [PATCH 5/5] ioeventfd: Introduce KVM_IOEVENTFD_FLAG_SOCKET Sasha Levin
2011-07-06 11:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-07-06 15:01 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-06 17:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-07-10 5:34 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-10 8:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-07-12 11:23 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-12 11:26 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-13 6:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-13 6:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-13 7:07 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-13 8:02 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-13 12:57 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-13 13:00 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-13 13:32 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-14 7:26 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-14 8:07 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-14 8:09 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-14 8:14 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-14 8:28 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-14 8:59 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-14 9:48 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <CAOJsxLHSeRuTOoiJssyrELRx-eXok3WinLr_+_G4dB+yHNBKdg@mail.gmai! l.com>
2011-07-14 10:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-14 11:54 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-14 12:32 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-14 12:46 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-14 13:00 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-14 13:05 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-14 13:17 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-14 13:23 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-07-20 2:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-20 6:16 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-20 9:42 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-14 12:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-14 12:48 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-14 12:52 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-14 12:54 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-14 8:19 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-07-14 8:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-07-14 8:29 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-20 2:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-20 9:44 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-20 21:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-25 12:10 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-25 12:16 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-25 12:26 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-25 13:04 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-13 7:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-13 10:04 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-13 10:26 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-13 10:56 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-13 11:14 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-06 12:39 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-06 12:58 ` Sasha Levin
2011-07-06 13:04 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-06 13:00 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-20 2:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-20 8:19 ` Avi Kivity
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