Re: WARNING: at arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c:379 smp_call_function_single()

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Mon Aug 13 2007 - 11:00:40 EST


Paolo Ornati wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:04:33 +0200
"Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[ 756.707601] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
[ 756.712034] kvm: disabling virtualization on CPU1
[ 756.712037] WARNING: at arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c:379 smp_call_function_single()
[ 756.712039]
[ 756.712039] Call Trace:
[ 756.712046] [<ffffffff8021d159>] smp_call_function_single+0x119/0x120
[ 756.712050] [<ffffffff80542169>] thread_return+0x1bf/0x626
[ 756.712054] [<ffffffff80234b5b>] sys_sched_yield+0x2b/0x80
[ 756.712057] [<ffffffff8043684b>] kvm_cpu_hotplug+0x4b/0xa0
[ 756.712060] [<ffffffff80247c83>] notifier_call_chain+0x53/0x80
[ 756.712062] [<ffffffff80247d09>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x9/0x10
[ 756.712065] [<ffffffff80247d21>] raw_notifier_call_chain+0x11/0x20
[ 756.712068] [<ffffffff8026184b>] take_cpu_down+0x1b/0x30
[ 756.712071] [<ffffffff802699d2>] do_stop+0xd2/0x150
[ 756.712073] [<ffffffff80269900>] do_stop+0x0/0x150
[ 756.712076] [<ffffffff8024f84d>] kthread+0x4d/0x80
[ 756.712079] [<ffffffff8020cb28>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
[ 756.712081] [<ffffffff8020c23c>] restore_args+0x0/0x30
[ 756.712084] [<ffffffff8024f800>] kthread+0x0/0x80
[ 756.712086] [<ffffffff8020cb1e>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
[ 756.712087]
[ 756.815693] CPU 1 is now offline
[ 756.815697] lockdep: not fixing up alternatives.
[ 756.819276] CPU1 is down
Added to KR list, thanks for the report.


I've bisected it down to this commit:

cec9ad279b66793bee0b5009b7ca311060061efd

KVM: Use CPU_DYING for disabling virtualization
Only at the CPU_DYING stage can we be sure that no user process will
be scheduled onto the cpu and oops when trying to use virtualization
extensions.


Thanks. I'll have a go at it.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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