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

From: Dave Young
Date: Mon Oct 18 2010 - 10:25:34 EST


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ÂOn 10/18/2010 04:15 PM, Dave Young wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx> Âwrote:
>> > Â ÂOn 10/18/2010 04:11 PM, Dave Young wrote:
>> >>
>> >> ÂOn Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@xxxxxxxxxx> Â Âwrote:
>> >> Â> Â Â ÂOn 10/18/2010 03:58 PM, Dave Young wrote:
>> >> Â>>
>> >> Â>> Â Â>
>> >> Â>> Â Â> Â Â ÂPlease patch hardware_setup() to show the value of
>> >> Â>> Â Â> Â Â Âboot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_NX).
>> >> Â>>
>> >> Â>> Â ÂIt's 0
>> >>
>> >> ÂPlease wait, I reply too quick, actually it boots two times fine then
>> >> Âone time fail.
>> >
>> > ÂWhat boots fine? ÂThe guest?
>>
>> Yes the guest
>>
>
> That makes some sort of wierd sense. ÂFirst kvm samples X86_FEATURE_NX, sees
> that it has the feature, reports it to qemu, qemu runs the guest, NX gets
> disabled in between, the guest tries to enable NX, kvm kills it.
>
> Second time round, kvm reports that NX is not available, qemu does not
> enable it, neither does the guest, and everyone is happy.
>
> Please confirm that when the guest does boot, it boots without NX in
> /proc/cpuinfo.
>

Yes, there's no nx in guest cpuinfo

hardware_setup is run only when insmod so the nx is of host, thus the
first printk result is right value?
> --
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
>
>



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Regards
dave
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