On 5 févr. 2010, at 16:07, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Pierre Riteau wrote: >> On 5 févr. 2010, at 15:46, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> >>> Pierre Riteau wrote: >>>> On 4 févr. 2010, at 15:34, Pierre Riteau wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> I'm having trouble running the latest qemu-kvm code on Debian Lenny (Linux 2.6.26). >>>>> qemu-kvm dies with an error like this one: >>>>> exception 13 (0) >>>>> rax 0000000000000010 rbx 0000000000008c00 rcx 0000000000006ebe rdx 00000000000c8c00 >>>>> rsi 00000000e2010000 rdi 00000000000c0000 rsp 0000000000006eb4 rbp 00000000e2010000 >>>>> r8 0000000000000000 r9 0000000000000000 r10 0000000000000000 r11 0000000000000000 >>>>> r12 0000000000000000 r13 0000000000000000 r14 0000000000000000 r15 0000000000000000 >>>>> rip 00000000000fdeb0 rflags 00033002 >>>>> cs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>>> ds 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>>> es 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>>> ss 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>>> fs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>>> gs 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 3 db 0 s 1 type 3 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>>> tr 0000 (feffd000/00002088 p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type b l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>>> ldt 0000 (00000000/0000ffff p 1 dpl 0 db 0 s 0 type 2 l 0 g 0 avl 0) >>>>> gdt f7a20/37 >>>>> idt f8aa0/0 >>>>> cr0 10 cr2 0 cr3 0 cr4 0 cr8 0 efer 0 >>>>> code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 --> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >>>>> >>>>> I think I traced back the issue to the switch from Bochs BIOS to Seabios. By forcing the usage of Bochs BIOS 5f08bb45861f54be478b25075b90d2406a0f8bb3 works, while it dies without the -bios override. >>>>> Unfortunately, newer versions don't seem to work with Bochs BIOS. >>>>> >>>>> Upgrading the host kernel to 2.6.32 (Debian Squeeze) solves the issue. No problem on Fedora 12 as well. >>>> >>>> Am I the only one to see this issue? >>>> >>> The oldest kernels I've running here are 2.6.27. They all run kvm-kmod, >>> and they are all happy (mostly). >>> >>> Are you using the KVM support 2.6.26 provided or are you on some recent >>> kvm-kmod? The latter is highly recommended for tons of reasons. >>> >>> Jan >> >> >> I use the KVM modules provided by the distribution. >> > > Then it makes some sense to try with kvm-kmod first. I do not know what > KVM patches debian people back-ported to their kernel, maybe you run > into long-fixed bugs. I confirm that this exception does not happen with kvm-kmod-2.6.33-rc6. However, after I run and stop a guest VM just executing the bios sequence (no disk/CD image attached), I get this kind of errors on the host when untar a small archive (less than 1MB, about 300 files): Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.073865] Bad page state in process 'gzip' Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.073867] page:ffffe200040c4638 flags:0x020000000000001c mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:0 count:0 Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.102991] Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.102992] Backtrace: Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.129821] Pid: 3559, comm: gzip Tainted: P 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.143267] Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.143268] Call Trace: Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.156024] [<ffffffff8022f0d2>] hrtick_set+0x88/0xf7 Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.167250] [<ffffffff8027504d>] bad_page+0x6b/0x95 Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.179879] [<ffffffff80276482>] get_page_from_freelist+0x3e1/0x606 Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.195345] [<ffffffff80276929>] __alloc_pages_internal+0xd6/0x3bf Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.210580] [<ffffffff80281707>] handle_mm_fault+0x244/0x867 Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.223694] [<ffffffff8027313a>] filemap_fault+0x1c2/0x33c Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.237948] [<ffffffff80221fbc>] do_page_fault+0x5d8/0x9c8 Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.251793] [<ffffffff8042a599>] error_exit+0x0/0x60 Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.265754] [<ffffffff80270df1>] file_read_actor+0x52/0x125 Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.278595] [<ffffffff802764fb>] get_page_from_freelist+0x45a/0x606 Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.294022] [<ffffffff80272c03>] generic_file_aio_read+0x29e/0x4ae Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.309319] [<ffffffff8029ae47>] do_sync_read+0xc9/0x10c Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.322816] [<ffffffff80246221>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.338051] [<ffffffff80221fbc>] do_page_fault+0x5d8/0x9c8 Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.351919] [<ffffffff8029b638>] vfs_read+0xaa/0x152 Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.366108] [<ffffffff8029ba19>] sys_read+0x45/0x6e Feb 8 12:00:32 paraquad-7 kernel: [ 200.378750] [<ffffffff8020beca>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x8a/0x8f -- Pierre Riteau -- PhD student, Myriads team, IRISA, Rennes, France http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/pierre.riteau/ -- 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
