On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 01:42 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 06:14:12PM -0400, Donald Parsons wrote: > > Required info: > > Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 > > kvm version kvm-85rc5 seg faults (rc[13] fine; rc[24]?) > > Host kernel version: 2.6.29.1 SMP x86_64 (on Fedora 10) > > Guest: Fedora 11 beta x86_64 (host and guest updated) > > qemu cmd line: > > /usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 fc11Beta.img -m 2048 & > > Problem still present with either of -no-kvm-irqchip or > > -no-kvm-pit switch > > Problem also appears with the -no-kvm switch > > > > In trying to make the core file smaller I found the > > seg fault disappeared for anything less than 2048 > > and still appeared for other values above 2048. > > (Interesting thing, m=2046 and 2047 got a little further, window > > changed size before seg fault). Everything up to 2045 > > worked. > > Seg fault occurs quite early, last thing seen is: > > "Press F12 for boot menu" > > followed by segfault about 3.5 to 4 seconds later. > > > > Seems to be a problem with http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Bugs > > where it says about core files "Then get a backtrace of > > the error with" followed by nothing? > > # gdb -c core.xxx qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 > > (gdb) bt > > Yes, the page is missing information, will be fixed. > > > > > dmesg shows: > > > > (these for m>=2048) > > qemu-system-x86[9392] general protection ip:43c8e9 sp:7fffdfd955d0 > > error:0 in qemu-system-x86_64[400000+1f2000] > > qemu-system-x86[9394] general protection ip:43c8e9 sp:7fffee13e970 > > error:0 in qemu-system-x86_64[400000+1f2000] > > qemu-system-x86[9462] general protection ip:43c8e9 sp:7fff21ce3510 > > error:0 in qemu-system-x86_64[400000+1f2000] > > qemu-system-x86[9522] general protection ip:43c8e9 sp:7fff7b4d4d10 > > error:0 in qemu-system-x86_64[400000+1f2000] > > qemu-system-x86[9525] general protection ip:43c8e9 sp:7fff11aba2f0 > > error:0 in qemu-system-x86_64[400000+1f2000] > > > > (next one m=2046) > > qemu-system-x86[9540] general protection ip:43c8f4 sp:7fffd6020850 > > error:0 in qemu-system-x86_64[400000+1f2000] > > (next one m=2047) > > qemu-system-x86[9314] general protection ip:43c8f4 sp:7fffdcfe1810 > > error:0 in qemu-system-x86_64[400000+1f2000] Okay, here is the backtrace: Core was generated by `/usr/local/kvm/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 fc11Beta.img -m 2048 -no-quit'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x000000000043c8e9 in fprintf () (gdb) bt #0 0x000000000043c8e9 in fprintf () #1 0x00000000004951fa in fprintf () #2 0x000000000040861e in fprintf () #3 0x00000000004096ca in fprintf () #4 0x000000000052302a in fprintf () #5 0x000000000040df05 in fprintf () #6 0x0000003fa421e576 in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #7 0x0000000000406c69 in fprintf () #8 0x00007fff8e91ee58 in ?? () #9 0x000000000000001c in ?? () #10 0x0000000000000005 in ?? () #11 0x00007fff8e91f81d in ?? () #12 0x00007fff8e91f843 in ?? () #13 0x00007fff8e91f850 in ?? () #14 0x00007fff8e91f853 in ?? () #15 0x00007fff8e91f858 in ?? () #16 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () and dmesg shows for this same segfault: loaded kvm module (kvm-85rc5) qemu-system-x86[4551] general protection ip:43c8e9 sp:7fff8e91e100 error:0 in qemu-system-x86_64[400000+1f2000] Don -- 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