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SubjectRe: [BUG] Linux 2.6.28.4 freezing on a 32-bits x86 Thinkpad T43p
* Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
>
> * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:
>
> > Here is a new backtrace, taken with a huge amount of debugging active, which still
> > points to an interrupt handler nested over kvm_mmu_pte_write as the culprit. It's
> > weird that the kvm code gets called on my modest Pentium M laptop, which I think
> > has no VT-x support at all. I am not running any KVM VMs on this machine. The
> > problem still happens on 2.6.28.4, and Slub redzones did not identify any memory
> > corruption. This could be due to kvm_mmu_pte_write which either should not be
> > called at all, or due to improper interrupt disabling in this function.
>
> Does latest tip:master fix it? In particular this one:
>
> 9cf161a: x86/cpa: make sure cpa is safe to call in lazy mmu mode
>
> fixes a crasher related to KVM and mmu notifiers ...
>
> Ingo

I'll try to apply commit
9cf161a: x86/cpa: make sure cpa is safe to call in lazy mmu mode

To my 2.6.28.4 kernel to change the configuration minimally and see if
it helps. I guess we'll have to wait a few days before the problem is
reproduced, and even more if it's not. :)

Thanks a lot!

Mathieu

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