Re: [BUG] kvm: guest can not startup due to triple fault

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Mon Oct 18 2010 - 09:50:25 EST


On 10/18/2010 03:46 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 10/18/2010 03:45 PM, Dave Young wrote:
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 03:26:30PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/18/2010 02:58 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> >>
> >> It's secondary_startup_64 enabling efer.sce and efer.nx.
> >>
> >> Dave, please post your /proc/cpuinfo. Is your host running with NX
> >> disabled?
> >
> >I see nx bit in /proc/cpuinfo, Actually I don't know how to disable it.
>
> Strange.
>
> Please patch arch/x86/kvm/x86.c to printk efer_reserved_bits (a
> global), efer (an argument) and old_efer (a local), and post the
> results.

I add printk before kvm_mmu_reset_context(vcpu), correct? get following value:


Add it at the beginning please, otherwise we'll miss the important one due to an early return.


No need actually:

[ 3228.468325] efer_reserved_bits = 0xfffffffffffffafe


Bit 11 is reserved, so the guest can't enable nx.

From arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c:
static __init int hardware_setup(void)
{
if (setup_vmcs_config(&vmcs_config) < 0)
return -EIO;

if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NX))
kvm_enable_efer_bits(EFER_NX);


Please patch hardware_setup() to show the value of boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NX).

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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