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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.28.4 freezing on a 32-bits x86 Thinkpad T43p
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:50:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090211195038.GC25968@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090211193125.GA30975@Krystal>


* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> Here is a new backtrace, taken with a huge amount of debugging active, which still 
> points to an interrupt handler nested over kvm_mmu_pte_write as the culprit. It's 
> weird that the kvm code gets called on my modest Pentium M laptop, which I think 
> has no VT-x support at all. I am not running any KVM VMs on this machine. The 
> problem still happens on 2.6.28.4, and Slub redzones did not identify any memory 
> corruption. This could be due to kvm_mmu_pte_write which either should not be 
> called at all, or due to improper interrupt disabling in this function.

Does latest tip:master fix it? In particular this one:

  9cf161a: x86/cpa: make sure cpa is safe to call in lazy mmu mode

fixes a crasher related to KVM and mmu notifiers ...

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-11 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-04 21:11 [BUG] Linux 2.6.28.3 freezing on a 32-bits x86 Thinkpad T43p Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-04 21:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-11 19:31   ` [BUG] Linux 2.6.28.4 " Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-11 19:50     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-02-11 20:13       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12  4:50         ` [ltt-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-12 14:43           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-12 15:07             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-11 20:14       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-02-11 20:11     ` Avi Kivity

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