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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: race between kvm-kmod-3.0 and kvm-kmod-3.3 // was: race condition
 in qemu-kvm-1.0.1
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:25:43 +0300
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On 07/03/2012 04:15 PM, Peter Lieven wrote:
> On 03.07.2012 15:13, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 07/03/2012 04:01 PM, Peter Lieven wrote:
>>> Further output from my testing.
>>>
>>> Working:
>>> Linux 2.6.38 with included kvm module
>>> Linux 3.0.0 with included kvm module
>>>
>>> Not-Working:
>>> Linux 3.2.0 with included kvm module
>>> Linux 2.6.28 with kvm-kmod 3.4
>>> Linux 3.0.0 with kvm-kmod 3.4
>>> Linux 3.2.0 with kvm-kmod 3.4
>>>
>>> I can trigger the race with any of qemu-kvm 0.12.5, 1.0 or 1.0.1.
>>> It might be that the code was introduced somewhere between 3.0.0
>>> and 3.2.0 in the kvm kernel module and that the flaw is not
>>> in qemu-kvm.
>>>
>>> Any hints?
>>>
>> A bisect could tell us where the problem is.
>>
>> To avoid bisecting all of linux, try
>>
>>     git bisect v3.2 v3.0 virt/kvm arch/x86/kvm
>>
>>
> would it also be ok to bisect kvm-kmod?

Yes, but note that kvm-kmod is spread across two repositories which are
not often tested out of sync, so you may get build failures.


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