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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Catherine Ho <catherine.hecx@gmail.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] target/i386: relax assert when old host kernels don't include msrs
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 12:22:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ac1a83c-6958-1b49-295f-92149749fa7c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1575449430-23366-1-git-send-email-catherine.hecx@gmail.com>

On 04/12/19 09:50, Catherine Ho wrote:
> Commit 20a78b02d315 ("target/i386: add VMX features") unconditionally
> add vmx msr entry although older host kernels don't include them.
> 
> But old host kernel + newest qemu will cause a qemu crash as follows:
> qemu-system-x86_64: error: failed to set MSR 0x480 to 0x0
> target/i386/kvm.c:2932: kvm_put_msrs: Assertion `ret ==
> cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed.
> 
> This fixes it by relaxing the condition.

This is intentional.  The VMX MSR entries should not have been added.
What combination of host kernel/QEMU are you using, and what QEMU
command line?

Paolo



  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-04 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-04  8:50 [PATCH] target/i386: relax assert when old host kernels don't include msrs Catherine Ho
2019-12-04 11:22 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-12-04 13:33   ` Catherine Ho
2019-12-04 13:53     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-04 15:07       ` Catherine Ho
2019-12-04 15:34         ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-04 15:47           ` Eduardo Habkost
2019-12-04 16:23             ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-06 10:23           ` [PATCH] target/i386: skip kvm_msr_entry_add when kvm_vmx_basic is 0 Catherine Ho
2019-12-06 10:28             ` Catherine Ho
2019-12-06 11:30             ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-06 23:48             ` no-reply

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