Re: [Android-virt] [PATCH v5 11/13] ARM: KVM: Support SMP hosts

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On 19/12/11 15:42, Antonios Motakis wrote:
> On 12/19/2011 04:40 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Marc Zyngier<marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>> On 19/12/11 15:30, Antonios Motakis wrote:
>>>> On 12/19/2011 04:19 PM, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>>> On 19/12/11 14:57, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You should simply start booting a UP guest on an SMP host, see where
>>>>>> it crashes and start tracking it down.
>>>>> For the time being, I've yet to see UP guest crashing on SMP host. On
>>>>> the model, that is...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Last time I tried to run a guest in a 2 core model, it hanged and
>>>> crashed after a while. Anyway, I will investigate. So I gather critical
>>>> sections have been dealt with and it's just a matter of ironing bugs
>>>> right now?
>>> Depends when you tested. V4 was definitely unusable on SMP.
>>>
>>> With my patches merged in Christoffer's v5 release, the basics should be
>>> covered (correct SMP setup in the boot-wrapper and KVM, MPIDR
>>> virtualization).
>>>
>>> If you find any problem (and let's face it, I'm sure you will... ;-),
>>> I'll be happy to investigate.
>>>
>> I had the guest boot process crash on a page fault on the v5 series.
>> Consistently. I just didn't have time to investigate yet.
> 
> I was also running v5, however I didn't record the exact crash behavior, 
> since I assumed I was having the same results as everyone. I will look 
> into it now.

If you manage to find a way to reliably reproduce it, I really want help
having it fixed ASAP. Kernel config and co much appreciated.

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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