Re: [kvm-devel] guest crash on 2.6.20-rc4

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Tue Jan 09 2007 - 03:54:08 EST


Roland Dreier wrote:
I'm running a 64-bit Fedora 6 install as a guest on a host running
2.6.20-rc4 with the kvm-10 userspace release. The CPU is a Xeon 5160
and I have 6 GB of RAM. The guest is given 512 MB of memory. I left
the guest idle overnight, and the makewhatis cron job seems to have
triggered this:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff81000ba04000 RIP:
[<ffffffff8025f402>] clear_page+0x16/0x44
PGD 8063 PUD 9063 PMD 800000000ba001e3 PTE aad8a7d881d984d9

The pgd/pud/pmd entries are all correct, so it's clear the mmu is confused.

I just let yum update the guest to the 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 kernel, but
I'm more suspicious of the MMU changes to kvm...


Yes.

I don't see anything come up in the host logs when this happens.

Let me know if there is other debugging info that would be helpful.

A way to reproduce this would be nice, though I realize it's asking much.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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