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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc1 A few issues and a stall
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:39:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E4840E.6010300@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904140832.25057.edt@aei.ca>

Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 April 2009 06:03:58 Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> Ed Tomlinson wrote:
>>     
>>> Once the above networking stuff is setup I start kvm with the command below
>>>
>>> QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=alsa kvm -m 1024 -cdrom /mnt/sdc4/divx/archlinux-2009.02-ftp-i686.iso -boot c -smp 3 -usb -usbdevice tablet -vga std -drive file=arch.img -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:23 -net tap,ifname=qtap0,script=no -soundhw all -mem-path /hugepages
>>>
>>> which works and the kvm session boots just fine.  
>>>
>>> Issue 2.  When I attempt to ping outside the kvm session the pc (not just the kvm session) hangs.
>>> Its impossible to kill the kvm session and there are numerious info messages from RCU (tree RCU enabled)
>>> about stalls.  
>>>   
>>>       
>> The rcu messages are likely because a processor has died.
>>
>> Do things work if you drop -mem-path?
>>     
>
> It makes no difference.  I did notice that one cpu is peged at 100% though.  I'll be trying
> CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING tonight for another problem - might give interesting results.
>   

Oh, so this goes away without CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING?

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-14 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-12 15:24 2.6.30-rc1 A few issues and a stall Ed Tomlinson
2009-04-13  2:05 ` Zhang Rui
2009-04-13  2:50   ` Lin Ming
2009-04-13 22:22     ` Ed Tomlinson
2009-04-14 10:03 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 12:32   ` Ed Tomlinson
2009-04-14 12:39     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-04-14 22:03       ` Ed Tomlinson
2009-04-14 22:54       ` 2.6.30-rc1 A few issues and a stall (nmi_watchdog traceback) Ed Tomlinson
2009-04-14 23:09         ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-14 23:54           ` Ed Tomlinson
2009-04-15  1:27           ` Ed Tomlinson

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