On 2014-07-04 07:43, Jan Kiszka wrote: > All tests up to > 307621765a are running fine here, but since a0e30e712d not much is > completing successfully anymore: > > enabling apic > paging enabled > cr0 = 80010011 > cr3 = 7fff000 > cr4 = 20 > PASS: test vmxon with FEATURE_CONTROL cleared > PASS: test vmxon without FEATURE_CONTROL lock > PASS: test enable VMX in FEATURE_CONTROL > PASS: test FEATURE_CONTROL lock bit > PASS: test vmxon > FAIL: test vmptrld > PASS: test vmclear > init_vmcs : make_vmcs_current error > FAIL: test vmptrst > init_vmcs : make_vmcs_current error > vmx_run : vmlaunch failed. > FAIL: test vmlaunch > FAIL: test vmlaunch > > SUMMARY: 10 tests, 4 unexpected failures Here is the reason for my failures: 000000000000010f <make_vmcs_current>: 10f: 48 89 7c 24 f8 mov %rdi,-0x8(%rsp) 114: 9c pushfq 115: 58 pop %rax 116: 48 83 c8 41 or $0x41,%rax 11a: 50 push %rax 11b: 9d popfq 11c: 0f c7 74 24 f8 vmptrld -0x8(%rsp) 121: 0f 96 c0 setbe %al 124: 0f b6 c0 movzbl %al,%eax 127: c3 retq The compiler is not aware of the fact that push/pop exists in this function and, thus, places the vmcs parameter on the stack without reserving the space. So the pushfq will overwrite the vmcs pointer and let the function fail. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html