From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: qemu-kvm-1.1.0 crashing with kernel 3.5.0-rc6 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:17:26 +0300 Message-ID: <5007FAD6.2010407@redhat.com> References: <4FFAB92C.4030001@googlemail.com> <4FFD26B6.8000802@googlemail.com> <20120711071200.GG23898@redhat.com> <4FFD28B9.9040604@googlemail.com> <20120711072255.GH23898@redhat.com> <50031F85.6020908@googlemail.com> <5007FA1C.5080606@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gleb Natapov , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Clayton Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:20915 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751813Ab2GSMRa (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:17:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5007FA1C.5080606@googlemail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/19/2012 03:14 PM, Chris Clayton wrote: >> Change of diagnostics, unfortunately. qemu-kvm-1.0.1 can, in fact, crash >> on 3.5.0-rc6 (and rc7). I didn't get it earlier because it takes many >> times more invocations before the crash occurs with 1.0.1 and I haven't >> used qemu-kvm much in the past few weeks. >> >> I'm now checking whether I can get crashes (with 1.0.1 and/or 1.1.0) on >> linux-3.4.4. I'll report back in a day or two. > > I've started up qemu-kvm on kernel 3.4.4 many times and not see a crash. > That would indicate that the problem is in the kernel. However, I pulled > the latest and greatest from Linus yesterday evening and I now can't get > the crash there either, so whatever it was seems to have been fixed. If > I checkout and build 3.5.0-rc[1..7], I can get the crash pretty quickly, > so it's been fixed in the last few days. There were no kvm changes post-rc7. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function