On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 13:10 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:57:46PM -0500, Ryan Harper wrote: > > * Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx> [2009-03-24 16:07]: > > > > > > On a 2.6.29, x86_64 host/guest, what's special about specifying a guest > > > size of -m 3586 when using -mem-path backed by hugetlbfs? 3585 works, > > > 3586 hangs here: > > > > > > ... > > > PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB) > > > Placing 64MB software IO TLB between ffff880020000000 - ffff880024000000 > > > software IO TLB at phys 0x20000000 - 0x24000000 > > > Memory: 3504832k/4196352k available (2926k kernel code, 524740k absent, 166780k reserved, 1260k data, 496k init) > > > > I've seen this as well, haven't had a chance to dig into the issue yet > > either. Certainly can test patches if anyone has an idea of what's > > wrong here. > > Can you strace and see if the mmap on hugetlbfs is correctly sized? Seems reasonable with some 2MB rounding. Failing case, -m 3586: open("/hugepages//kvm.5fuuH5", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 9 unlink("/hugepages//kvm.5fuuH5") = 0 ftruncate(9, 3783262208) = 0 mmap(NULL, 3783262208, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_POPULATE, 9, 0) = 0x7f37a5e00000 Working case, -m 3585: open("/hugepages//kvm.Mv6Zgd", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 9 unlink("/hugepages//kvm.Mv6Zgd") = 0 ftruncate(9, 3781165056) = 0 mmap(NULL, 3781165056, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_POPULATE, 9, 0) = 0x7fd44b800000 Working case using disk backing: -mem-path /tmp -mem-prealloc -m 3586: open("/tmp/kvm.nPlxl1", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 9 unlink("/tmp/kvm.nPlxl1") = 0 ftruncate(9, 3783262208) = 0 mmap(NULL, 3783262208, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 9, 0) = 0x7f432e055000 -- 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