Re: kernel 3.10.1 - "NMI received for unknown reason"

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On 29.07.2013 11:16, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:09:51AM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote:
>> On 26.07.2013 20:39, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 08:25:19PM +0200, Stefan Pietsch wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> starting a virtual machine (Debian sid) with KVM on my host running
>>>> kernel 3.10.1 (Debian 3.10-1-686-pae) produces these messages:
>>>>
>>> Are those messages printed by a host or a guest?
>>
>> The host shows the messages.
>>
>>>> [  765.522920] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 0.
>>>> [  765.522927] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
>>>> [  765.522930] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>>>> [  770.487732] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21 on CPU 0.
>>>> [  770.487740] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
>>>> [  770.487742] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>>>> [  846.340966] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 1.
>>>> [  846.340973] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
>>>> [  846.340976] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>>>> [  847.563023] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 0.
>>>> [  847.563029] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
>>>> [  847.563032] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>>
>> Is it safe to ignore them?
>>
> They should not happen. What is the last kernel version you tried that
> does not produce them? Can you verify that they do not happen without
> guest running? What is the qemu command line you are using to start the
> guest and what "cat /proc/cpuinfo" looks like in the guest?

The Debian wheezy kernel (3.2.46) does not show this behaviour.
It is directly related to KVM and I found out that replacing the option
"-cpu coreduo" with "-cpu kvm32" does not generate the NMI messages.



"coreduo" /proc/cpuinfo:

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 14
model name	: Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2600  @ 2.16GHz
stepping	: 8
microcode	: 0x1
cpu MHz		: 1662.559
cache size	: 4096 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pni hypervisor
bogomips	: 3325.11
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 64
address sizes	: 32 bits physical, 0 bits virtual
power management:



"kvm32" /proc/cpuinfo:

processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 15
model		: 6
model name	: Common 32-bit KVM processor
stepping	: 1
microcode	: 0x1
cpu MHz		: 1662.559
cache size	: 4096 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 5
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 constant_tsc pni hypervisor
bogomips	: 3325.11
clflush size	: 64
cache_alignment	: 128
address sizes	: 32 bits physical, 0 bits virtual
power management:

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