On 2013-05-13 08:45, Ren, Yongjie wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >> On Behalf Of Gleb Natapov >> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 2:39 PM >> To: Jan Kiszka >> Cc: Kashyap Chamarthy; Abel Gordon; Nakajima, Jun; >> kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: [nVMX with: v3.9-11789-ge0fd9af] Stack trace when L2 guest >> is rebooted. >> >> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 08:31:33AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> On 2013-05-12 18:52, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: >>>>>> -------------------- >>>>>> .... >>>>>> [ 217.938034] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 30 on CPU >> 0. >>>>>> [ 217.938034] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? >>>>>> .[ 222.523373] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 20 on >> CPU 0. >>>>>> [ 222.524073] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? >>>>>> [ 222.524073] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue >>>>>> [ 243.860319] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 30 on CPU >> 0 >>>>>> ..... >>>>>> -------------------- >>>>>> At the moment, L2 guest creation stuck at the above message >>>>>> >>>>> Are those in L2 dmesg or L1? >>>> >>>> L2 dmesg. >>>> >>>> >>>>>> $ cat /etc/grub2.cfg | egrep -i 'hpet|nmi' >>>>>> >>>>> IIRC watchdog is enabled by default. >>>> >>>> Indeed, you're right. I disabled NMI on L1, and rebooted the newly >>>> created L2 guest starts just fine. >>> >>> NMI watchdogs go via some perf counters theses days IIRC. Can anyone >>> tell me which of those may be used in Kashyap's setup? I'm probably >>> lacking them for my guests and therefore do not see the errors. >>> >> Try running with -cpu host for L1. Your CPU definition probably lacks >> PMU leaf. >> > I met the same NMI issue in L2, too. > L1: -cpu host (or -cpu Haswell,+vmx) > L2: -cpu qemu64 by default > > If I use '-cpu qemu64,+vmx' to create L1, I'll not meet NMI issue in L2. > That, and it looks like my guest kernel was lacking CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR. Will rebuild and retest later. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- 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