On 07/30/2012 05:07 PM, Chris Clayton wrote: >> >>>> With kernel 3.5.0 with b2da15ac26a0c00 reverted, I have just had 15 >>>> clean invocations of vanilla qemu-kvm-1.1.1. So that commit would seem >>>> to be the problem. >>> >>> Just to be sure, I've run some more tests today. No crashes occurred in >>> 20 runs of vanilla qemu-kvm-1.1.1 on kernel 3.5.0 with b2da15ac26a0c00 >>> reverted. >> >> Ok. I'm trying to reproduce it here on a nested-virt setup, since the >> code looks correct. >> >> What's your preemption settings? >> >> > [chris:~/kernel/linux-3.5.0]$ grep PREEMPT .config > CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU=y > CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y > CONFIG_PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS=y > # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set > # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set > CONFIG_PREEMPT=y > CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y Here's what I think that is happening vcpu_load ... vmx_save_host_state vmx_vcpu_run (ds.cpl, es.cpl cleared by hardware) interrupt push ds, es # pushes bad ds, es schedule vmx_vcpu_put vmx_load_host_state reload ds, es pop ds, es # of other thread's stack iret # other thread runs interrupt schedule # back in vcpu thread interrupt return: pop ds, es # <-- problem iret ... vcpu_put # bad ds, es, but !vmx->host_state.loaded Marcelo, did I miss something here? Unfortunately, my reproducer has ceased to reproduce. But the fix is easy if the analysis above is right. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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