On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 19:28:49 +0100, Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> wrote: Hi Mike, > > [1 <text/plain; ISO-8859-15 (7bit)>] > On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 18:24 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Sun, 2018-07-29 at 13:47 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > FYI, per kvm unit tests, 4.16-rt definitely has more kvm issues. > > But it's not RT, or rather most of it isn't... > > > > huawei5:/abuild/mike/kvm-unit-tests # uname -r > > > 4.16.18-rt11-rt > > > huawei5:/abuild/mike/kvm-unit-tests # ./run_tests.sh > > > PASS selftest-setup (2 tests) > > > FAIL selftest-vectors-kernel > > > FAIL selftest-vectors-user > > > PASS selftest-smp (65 tests) > > > PASS pci-test (1 tests) > > > PASS pmu (3 tests) > > > FAIL gicv2-ipi > > > FAIL gicv3-ipi > > > FAIL gicv2-active > > > FAIL gicv3-active > > > PASS psci (4 tests) > > > FAIL timer > > > huawei5:/abuild/mike/kvm-unit-tests # > > > > > > 4.14-rt passes all tests. The above is with the kvm raw_spinlock_t > > > conversion patch applied, but the 4.12 based SLERT tree I cloned to > > > explore arm-land in the first place shows only one timer failure, and > > > has/needs it applied as well, which would seem to vindicate it. > > > > > > huawei5:/abuild/mike/kvm-unit-tests # uname -r > > > 4.12.14-0.gec0b559-rt > > > huawei5:/abuild/mike/kvm-unit-tests # ./run_tests.sh > > > PASS selftest-setup (2 tests) > > > PASS selftest-vectors-kernel (2 tests) > > > PASS selftest-vectors-user (2 tests) > > > PASS selftest-smp (65 tests) > > > PASS pci-test (1 tests) > > > PASS pmu (3 tests) > > > PASS gicv2-ipi (3 tests) > > > PASS gicv3-ipi (3 tests) > > > PASS gicv2-active (1 tests) > > > PASS gicv3-active (1 tests) > > > PASS psci (4 tests) > > > FAIL timer (8 tests, 1 unexpected failures) > > > > FWIW, this single timer failure wass inspired by something in the 4-15 > > merge window. > > As noted, the single timer failure is an RT issue of some sort, and > remains. The rest I bisected in @stable with the attached config, and > confirmed that revert fixes up 4.16-rt as well (modulo singleton). Is it something that is reproducible with the current mainline (non-RT)? > > a9c0e12ebee56ef06b7eccdbc73bab71d0018df8 is the first bad commit > commit a9c0e12ebee56ef06b7eccdbc73bab71d0018df8 > Author: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Oct 23 17:11:20 2017 +0100 > > KVM: arm/arm64: Only clean the dcache on translation fault > > The only case where we actually need to perform a dcache maintenance > is when we map the page for the first time, and subsequent permission > faults do not require cache maintenance. Let's make it conditional > on not being a permission fault (and thus a translation fault). > > Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx> Pretty worrying. What HW is that on? M. -- Jazz is not dead, it just smell funny. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html