Re: Core dump happened when starting a VM on arm64 server

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 17/06/2020 12.32, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 6/17/20 10:23 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 6/11/20 11:14 AM, Andrew Jones wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 04:46:45PM +0800, Haibo Xu wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I met a qemu core dump issue when starting a VM with cpu feature
>>>> "pmu=on" on an arm server.
>>>> The commands to start the machine is:
>>>>
>>>>   ./qemu-system-aarch64 \
>>>>            -cpu host,pmu=on -M virt,accel=kvm,gic-version=3 -nographic
>>>> -m 2048M \
>>>>            -kernel ./Image \
>>>>            -initrd /boot/initrd.img-5.6.0-rc2+ \
>>>>            -append "root=/dev/vda rw console=ttyAMA0" -nodefaults -serial stdio\
>>>>            -drive if=none,file=./xenial.rootfs.ext4,id=hd0,format=raw \
>>>>            -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And here is the stack dump:
>>>>
>>>>  Core was generated by `./qemu-system-aarch64 -cpu host,pmu=on -M
>>>> virt,accel=kvm,gic-version=3 -nograph'.
>>>>  Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>>>>  #0  kvm_ioctl (s=0x0, type=type@entry=44547) at
>>>
>>> s=0x0 means cpu->kvm_state is NULL
>>>
>>>> The root cause is in the arm_get_pmu() operation which was introduced
>>>> in ae502508f83.
>>>
>>> Actually the root cause is d70c996df23f ("target/arm/kvm: Use
>>> CPUState::kvm_state in kvm_arm_pmu_supported()"). ae502508f83 used
>>> the machine kvm_state, not the cpu kvm_state, and that allows pmu=on
>>> to work. d70c996df23f changed that saying that "KVMState is already
>>> accessible via CPUState::kvm_state, use it.", but I'm not sure why,
>>> since kvm_init_vcpu() doesn't run until the vcpu thread is created.
>>>
>>> Philippe?
>>
>> Sorry for some reason I missed this email. I'll look at this today.
> 
> Quick reproducer:
> 
> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -cpu host,pmu=on -M virt,accel=kvm,gic-version=3
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> Eduardo, I thought we had a 'machine' qtest testing for various
> combination of properties, but I can't find it, do you remember?
> Or maybe it was Thomas? Or Markus? =)

You probably remember the scripts/device-crash-test script? ... that's
a) only testing -device options as far as I know, and b) is not run
automatically during "make check", so it certainly is not suitable to
detect these kind of errors automatically.

 Thomas