Re: [BUG] kvm: guest can not startup due to triple fault

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

  On 10/18/2010 10:55 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 10/18/2010 09:14 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Am 18.10.2010 06:43, Dave Young wrote:
>> >  On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>  wrote:
>> >>   On 10/17/2010 12:14 PM, Dave Young wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>  On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>   
>> wrote:
>> >>>>     On 10/17/2010 10:54 AM, Dave Young wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>   linux guest can not startup normally, qemu keep rebooting.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>   host&     guest both use linux-2.6.36-rc8+ kernel
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>   Add a dump_stack in x86.c around EXIT_SHUTDOWN code, I got:
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503041] Pid: 1685, comm: qemu-system-x86 Not tainted
>> >>>>>  2.6.36-rc8+
>> >>>>>   #62
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503045] Call Trace:
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503055]  [<ffffffffa0176047>] 
>> handle_triple_fault+0x11/0x26
>> >>>>>   [kvm_intel]
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503060]  [<ffffffffa01772d2>] vmx_handle_exit+0x3df/0x474
>> >>>>>   [kvm_intel]
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503080]  [<ffffffffa021f203>]
>> >>>>>  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x95f/0xc43
>> >>>>>   [kvm]
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503087]  [<ffffffff81503e54>] ?
>> >>>>>  __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x11c/0x131
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503101]  [<ffffffffa021e1f9>] ? 
>> kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x90/0xe6
>> >>>>>  [kvm]
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503112]  [<ffffffffa0210faf>] 
>> kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x109/0x54a [kvm]
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503117]  [<ffffffff810bee76>] ?
>> >>>>>   fire_user_return_notifiers+0x2c/0x36
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503122]  [<ffffffff8106be93>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503127]  [<ffffffff81002789>] ? 
>> do_notify_resume+0x717/0x73d
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503131]  [<ffffffff8103994e>] ? 
>> finish_task_switch+0x69/0xda
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503135]  [<ffffffff8110628c>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x4c3/0x50d
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503139]  [<ffffffff8110632b>] sys_ioctl+0x55/0x77
>> >>>>>   [ 3924.503142]  [<ffffffff81002c02>] 
>> system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>   Anyone can help on this?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>   Please provide a trace (trace-cmd record -e kvm) leading to the
>> >>>>  failure.
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>  Hi, please see:
>> >>>  http://userweb.kernel.org/~davey/tmp/trace.dat
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >>  Was this done with an old version of trace-cmd?  Please use the 
>> latest git.
>> >>   Make sure you have udis86 and udis86-devel installed when you 
>> build it.
>> >
>> >  Hi, the trace-cmd was build from git version, but without udis86.
>> >
>> >  I updated trace.dat on the same url, is it a correct one?
>> >
>>
>> IIUC, plugin_kvm is only involved in reporting, not recording, so udis86
>> shouldn't matter.
>>
>> I had a look out of curiosity (just managed to make my trace tools work
>> smoothly), and the data is properly parsed by kernelshark here. There is
>> a strange NMI storm going on right before the triple fault (on some MSR
>> write) hits the fan.
>
> Doesn't parse here.  I get a bus error.
>
> Steven, is trace.dat meant to be transportable?  What does it depend on?
>
> Jan, can you upload your parsed data somewhere?  I want to have a look 
> as well.
>

Never mind, user error here.

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