Re: XP machine freeze

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 13/04/2015 14:45, Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day Paolo,
> 
> Yes, on AMD and I've tried hard to reproduce it on Intel and been unable
> to thus far.
> 
> Now you mention it may be AMD specific, I have a spare motherboard and
> processor sitting in a drawer. I'll bolt it together tomorrow and see if
> I can reproduce it on another AMD machine. Two machines should let me
> test it twice as fast.
> 
> I got a fail this afternoon, so I'm due to reboot tonight. I'll just
> revert that one suspect commit from a known bad kernel and see if that
> cleans it up. If not then I'll work through the remainder of the
> information in your mail. I really appreciate the attention you've paid
> to this, it has been a frustrating bug for me because I'm in a position
> of not knowing what I don't know, and obviously doing something wrong in
> very long bisection processes.

Actually, if you have time to change your course of action, please
revert the one that Nadav pointed out (f210f7572bed, KVM: x86:
Fix lost interrupt on irr_pending race) or cherry-pick it on top of 3.17.

Paolo