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, 26 Jul 2012 15:07:07 +0300 Message-ID: <501132EB.6060705@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> <5007FAD6.2010407@redhat.com> <500850AD.8080504@googlemail.com> <50111369.6020209@googlemail.com> <50111566.5070202@redhat.com> <501130CF.5050207@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gleb Natapov , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kiszka To: Chris Clayton Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1743 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751812Ab2GZMHN (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:07:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <501130CF.5050207@googlemail.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/26/2012 02:58 PM, Chris Clayton wrote: >> It looks like general memory corruption. Is this repeatable? What's >> the guest uptime when it happens (i.e. is it immediate?) > > I've just done 10 runs of WinXP SP3 and 5 of them crashed. Three crashed > early as XP was starting up - well before the desktop would have > appeared. The other two crashed as XP was closing down, having been > running for a few minutes (but not doing much). > > The error messages seen through dmesg are: > > qemu-kvm[12778] general protection ip:b6c43d77 sp:b5e800fc error:0 in > libc-2.16.so[b6b06000+1b4000] > qemu-kvm[12813] general protection ip:b6bf6d77 sp:b54ff0fc error:0 in > libc-2.16.so[b6ab9000+1b4000] > qemu-kvm[12986] general protection ip:b6cd3d77 sp:b55ff0fc error:0 in > libc-2.16.so[b6b96000+1b4000] > qemu-kvm[13045] general protection ip:b6c91d77 sp:b54ff0fc error:0 in > libc-2.16.so[b6b54000+1b4000] > qemu-kvm[13225] general protection ip:b6c5bd77 sp:b54ff0fc error:0 in > libc-2.16.so[b6b1e000+1b4000] > > The other 5 were OK, although I only did a bit of web browsing for few > minutes with IE. Failures always in the same place (I'm guess the variations are due to PIE -- please configure with --disable-pie for future tests). Please generate a core and look around, esp. in frame 3 (type_table_lookup). Also try to dissect type_table (you may need to install the glib debug symbols for this). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function