Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kvm causing memory corruption? now 2.6.26-rc4 | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:41:45 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:42 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: ... > > After collecting all those, I turned on CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM and the > > oopses miraculously stopped. But, the guest hung (for at least 5 > > minutes or so) during windows bootup, pegging my host CPU. Most of the > > CPU was going to klogd, so I checked dmesg. > > > Can you check with mem=900 (and CONFIG_HIGHMEM_DEBUG=n)? That will > confirm that the problems are highmem related, but not physical address > truncation related.
Do you mean 800M? ;) Highmem begins at 896MB if I remember correctly.
Anyway, it still oopses on current git with mem=800M
> > I was seeing messages like this > > > > [ 428.918108] kvm_handle_exit: unexpected, valid vectoring info and exit reason is 0x9 > > > > And quite a few of them, like 100,000/sec. That's why klogd was pegging > > the CPU. Any idea on a next debugging step? > > > That's a task switch. Newer kvms handle them.
Newer userspace? I'm running current kvm-git userspace as of a day or two ago.
-- Dave
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