Re: Kernel freeze during ftrace startup test (x86)

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Am 18.10.2010 17:24, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 17:08 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 
>>> Just to summarize:
>>> - on real HW with rtai-patch the issue is caused by rtai
>>> - the vanilla kernel used with vmware has some other issues
>>
>> I missed the vanilla part: Can you reproduce under QEMU/KVM? Debugging
>> the guest would be easier then, and it's easier to trace what that
>> hypervisor does. Maybe there is a subtle race in the test code that is
>> exposed by the timing that virtualization implies.
> 
> Note, there was a bug fixed due to pv ops and kvm clock being traced:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/22/455
> 
> The two fixes are next in that thread.

Alternatively, this should avoid running into the code paths:

qemu-system-x86_64 [...] -cpu kvm64,-kvmclock
(ie. claim that we don't support kvmclock)

Jan

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