[Bug 205441] New: Enabling KVM causes any Linux VM reboot on kernel boot

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2019-11-05T12:23:39Z

Bug ID: 205441
Summary: Enabling KVM causes any Linux VM reboot on kernel boot
Product: Virtualization
Version: unspecified
Kernel Version: 4.19.81
Hardware: Intel
OS: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: kvm
Assignee: virtualization_kvm@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
Reporter: hawk@tld-linux.org
Regression: No

Created attachment 285801
--> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=285801&action=edit
Kernel .config file

I'm unable to run any Linux VM on host running kernel 4.19.81. VM starts fine,
boot loader works fine, both kernel and initramfs images are loaded and when
kernel boot should occur, VM simply reboots itself. This happens only when
-enable-kvm is added on command line. Disabling KVM makes it working again (but
slow).

Problem appears only on one of my two physical hosts, the one with Intel Core 2
Quad 9500 CPU. KVM works fine on Intel Xeon E3-1246 CPU (same packages, same
versions, same configs). I tried different guest kernel versions and systems
and VM will always reboot when trying to boot kernel.

If I downgrade to 4.19.73 KVM is working fine again. I may test kernels from
4.19.74 to 4.19.79 to see which one introduces the problem, but it will take
some time as I must build these packages manually.

I'm starting my test VM with below command, but started via libvirt have same
problem.

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2048M -smp 1 -k en-us -drive
file=/tmp/cri-tld-x64-20190916.iso,media=cdrom,format=raw,if=ide -cpu kvm64
-vnc 127.0.0.1:0 -enable-kvm

I tried changing -cpu parameter including host passthrough option, but problems
persists.

Kernel version (distribution package):

Linux version 4.19.81-4.19-vanilla-1 (builder@x64) (gcc version 9.2.0 20190830
(release) (TLD-Linux)) #1 SMP Wed Oct 30 20:56:24 CET 2019

Kernel config is attached.

CPU on host where problem exists (limited output to single core)

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9500 @ 2.83GHz
stepping : 10
microcode : 0xa0b
cpu MHz : 2015.344
cache size : 3072 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64
monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm pti
tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority dtherm
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds
swapgs
bogomips : 5652.52
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual