Re: 2.6.35 hangs on early boot in KVM

Tvrtko Ursulin
2010-08-04T09:19:55Z

On Wednesday 04 Aug 2010 10:16:08 Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 Aug 2010 10:05:36 Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On 08/04/2010 01:18 AM, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 03 Aug 2010 21:57:48 Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Tvrtko Ursulin
> > >>
> > >> <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> wrote:
> > >>> On Tuesday 03 Aug 2010 16:17:20 Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > >>>> On Tuesday 03 Aug 2010 15:57:03 Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > >>>>> On Tuesday 03 Aug 2010 15:51:08 Avi Kivity wrote:
> > >>>>>> On 08/03/2010 12:28 PM, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > >>>>>>> I have basically built 2.6.35 with make oldconfig from a working
> > >>>>>>> 2.6.34. Latter works fine in kvm while 2.6.35 hangs very early. I
> > >>>>>>> see nothing after grub (have early printk and verbose bootup
> > >>>>>>> enabled), just a blinking VGA cursor and CPU at 100%.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Please copy kvm@vger.kernel.org on kvm issues.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Try disabling this as a workaround.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I am in the middle of a bisect run with five builds left to go,
> > >>>>> currently I have:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> bad 537b60d17894b7c19a6060feae40299d7109d6e7
> > >>>>> good 93c9d7f60c0cb7715890b1f9e159da6f4d1f5a65
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Bisect is looking good, narrowed it to ten revisions, but I am not
> > >>>> sure to make it to the end today:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> bad cb41838bbc4403f7270a94b93a9a0d9fc9c2e7ea
> > >>>> good 41d59102e146a4423a490b8eca68a5860af4fe1c
> > >>>
> > >>> Bisect points the finger to "x86, ioapic: In mpparse use
> > >>> mp_register_ioapic" (cf7500c0ea133d66f8449d86392d83f840102632), so I
> > >>> am copying Eric. No idea whether this commit is solely to blame or
> > >>> it is a combined interaction with KVM, but I am sure you guys will
> > >>> know.
> > >>>
> > >>> If you want me to test something else please shout.
> > >>
> > >> please try attached patch, to see if it help.
> > >
> > > No luck (no visible difference, no output on VGA or serial console).
> > > (Btw there is a typo in pin_2_irq_leagcy so that you do not push it
> > > directly).
> >
> > can you try current tip with
> > earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 or console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200?
>
> Not the tip but 2.6.35 with earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200:

Correction, crash log was from 2.6.35 plus your smp_mptable_2.patch.

Tvrtko

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