Hi Liu Yuan, I started testing your patches. I applied your kernel patch to 3.0 and applied QEMU to latest git. I passed 6 blockdevices from the host to guest (4 vcpu, 4GB RAM). I ran simple "dd" read tests from the guest on all block devices (with various blocksizes, iflag=direct). Unfortunately, system doesn't stay up. I immediately get into panic on the host. I didn't get time to debug the problem. Wondering if you have seen this issue before and/or you have new patchset to try ? Let me know. Thanks, Badari ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:3059! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU 7 Modules linked in: vhost_blk ebtable_nat ebtables xt_CHECKSUM bridge stp llc autofs4 sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table mperf cachefiles fscache ipt_REJECT ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_round_robin scsi_dh_rdac dm_multipath vhost_net macvtap macvlan tun kvm_intel kvm cdc_ether usbnet mii microcode serio_raw pcspkr i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support shpchp ioatdma dca i7core_edac edac_core bnx2 sg ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt mptsas mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_sas dm_mod [last unloaded: nf_defrag_ipv4] Pid: 2744, comm: vhost-2698 Not tainted 3.0.0 #2 IBM -[7870AC1]-/46M0761 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8114932c>] [<ffffffff8114932c>] cache_alloc_refill+0x22c/0x250 RSP: 0018:ffff880258c87d00 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff88027f800040 RCX: dead000000200200 RDX: ffff880271128000 RSI: 0000000000000070 RDI: ffff88026eb6c000 RBP: ffff880258c87d50 R08: ffff880271128000 R09: 0000000000000003 R10: 000000021fffffff R11: ffff88026b5790c0 R12: ffff880272cd8c00 R13: ffff88027f822440 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: ffff88026eb6c000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88027fce0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000ecb100 CR3: 0000000270bfe000 CR4: 00000000000026e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process vhost-2698 (pid: 2744, threadinfo ffff880258c86000, task ffff8802703154c0) Stack: ffff880200000002 000492d000000000 ffff88027f822460 ffff88027f822450 ffff880258c87d60 ffff88027f800040 0000000000000000 00000000000080d0 00000000000080d0 0000000000000246 ffff880258c87da0 ffffffff81149c82 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81149c82>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x182/0x190 [<ffffffffa0252f52>] handle_guest_kick+0x162/0x799 [vhost_blk] [<ffffffffa02514ab>] vhost_worker+0xcb/0x150 [vhost_blk] [<ffffffffa02513e0>] ? vhost_dev_set_owner+0x190/0x190 [vhost_blk] [<ffffffffa02513e0>] ? vhost_dev_set_owner+0x190/0x190 [vhost_blk] [<ffffffff81084c66>] kthread+0x96/0xa0 [<ffffffff814d2f84>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [<ffffffff81084bd0>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x1a0/0x1a0 [<ffffffff814d2f80>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 Code: 48 89 df e8 07 fb ff ff 65 8b 14 25 58 dc 00 00 85 c0 48 63 d2 4c 8b 24 d3 74 16 41 83 3c 24 00 0f 84 fc fd ff ff e9 75 ff ff ff <0f> 0b 66 90 eb fc 31 c0 41 83 3c 24 00 0f 85 62 ff ff ff 90 e9 RIP [<ffffffff8114932c>] cache_alloc_refill+0x22c/0x250 RSP <ffff880258c87d00> ---[ end trace e286566e512cba7b ]--- -- 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