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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kvm: WARNING in kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:45:22 +0100
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On 14/11/2016 15:09, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> 
> I made dump_vmcs() no-op locally. You should see the warning
> regardless, but probably it is difficult to notice. Or maybe tons of
> output affect timings so that the warning does not happen.

I let it run for several minutes, and only got 50 splats out of several
thousand iterations.  Reproducing is not going to help much anyway---if
we can get to the root cause, writing a reliable reproducer would be
easier anyway.

Paolo