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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@gmail.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, "Joerg Roedel" <joro@8bytes.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:27:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170316212635-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170316192440.GL4085@HEDWIG.INI.CMU.EDU>

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 03:24:41PM -0400, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 08:29:32PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Let's take a step back and try to figure out how is
> > mwait called. How about dumping code of VCPUs
> > around mwait?  gdb disa command will do this.
> 
> Started guest with '-s', tried to attach from gdb with
> "target remote localhost:1234", got
> "remote 'g' packet reply is too long: <lengthy string of numbers>"

Try

set arch x86-64:x86-64


> Tried typing 'cont' in the qemu monitor, got os x to crash:
> 
> panic (cpu 1 caller 0xffffff7f813ff488): pmLock: waited too long, held
> by 0xffffff7f813eff65
> 
> Hmm, maybe that's where it keeps its monitor/mwait idle loop.
> Restarted the guest, tried this from monitor:
> 
> 	dump-guest-memory foobar 0xffffff7f813e0000 0x20000
> 
> Got "'dump-guest-memory' has failed: integer is for 32-bit values"
> 
> Hmmm... I have no idea what I'm doing anymore at this point... :)
> 
> --G

I think 0xffffff7f813ff488 is a PC.

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-16 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-15 21:22 [PATCH v5 untested] kvm: better MWAIT emulation for guests Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-15 23:35 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-15 23:41   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-16 13:24     ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-16 14:04       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-16 14:58         ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-16 15:23           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-16 15:35           ` Radim Krčmář
2017-03-16 16:01             ` Radim Krčmář
2017-03-16 16:47               ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-16 17:22                 ` Radim Krčmář
2017-03-16 17:39                   ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-16 17:27                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-16 17:41                   ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-16 18:29                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-16 19:24                       ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-16 19:27                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2017-03-16 20:17                           ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-16 21:14                             ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-17  2:03                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-17 13:23                                 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-21  3:22                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-21 16:58                                     ` Radim Krčmář
2017-03-21 17:29                                       ` Nadav Amit
2017-03-21 19:22                                         ` Radim Krčmář
2017-03-21 22:51                                           ` Gabriel Somlo
2017-03-22  0:02                                             ` Nadav Amit
2017-03-22 13:35                                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-22 14:10                                                 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-22 14:15                                                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-16 16:16             ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-16 16:45               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-16 16:52                 ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-16 16:54                   ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-16 17:14                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-16 17:38                       ` Radim Krčmář
2017-03-16 14:08       ` Radim Krčmář
2017-03-16 15:44         ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-16 15:54           ` Radim Krčmář
2017-03-16 16:26             ` Gabriel L. Somlo
2017-03-21 16:16 ` Joerg Roedel
2017-03-21 18:45   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-27 13:34 ` Alexander Graf
2017-03-28 14:28   ` Radim Krčmář
2017-03-28 20:35     ` Jim Mattson
2017-03-29 12:11       ` Radim Krčmář
2017-04-03 10:04         ` Alexander Graf
2017-04-04 12:39           ` Radim Krčmář
2017-04-04 12:51             ` Alexander Graf
2017-04-04 13:13               ` Radim Krčmář
2017-04-04 13:15                 ` Alexander Graf
2017-04-04 13:44                   ` Radim Krčmář

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