On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 07:59:29AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 4:19 AM, Xiao Guangrong
<guangrong.xiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Dan,
Recently, Redhat reported that nvml test suite failed on QEMU/KVM,
more detailed info please refer to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1365721
The reason for this bug is that the memory region created by mmap()
on the dax-based file was gone so that the region can not be found
in /proc/self/smaps during the runtime.
This is a simple way to trigger this issue:
mount -o dax /dev/pmem0 /mnt/pmem/
vim /mnt/pmem/xxx
then 'vim' is crashed due to segment fault.
This bug can be reproduced on your tree, the top commit is
10d7902fa0e82b (dax: unmap/truncate on device shutdown), the kernel
configure file is attached.
Your thought or comment is highly appreciated.
I'm going to be offline until Tuesday, but I will investigate when I'm
back. In the meantime if Ross or Vishal had an opportunity to take a
look I wouldn't say "no" :).
I haven't been able to reproduce this vim segfault. I'm using QEMU v2.6.0,
and the kernel commit you mentioned, and your kernel config.
Here's my QEMU command line:
sudo ~/qemu/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 /var/lib/libvirt/images/alara.qcow2 \
-machine pc,nvdimm -m 8G,maxmem=100G,slots=100 -object \
memory-backend-file,id=mem1,share,mem-path=/dev/pmem0,size=8G -device \
nvdimm,memdev=mem1,id=nv1 -smp 6 -machine pc,accel=kvm
With this I'm able to mkfs the guest's /dev/pmem0, mount it with -o dax, and
write a file with vim.
Can you reproduce your results with a pmem device created via a memmap kernel
command line parameter in the guest? You'll need to update your kernel
config to enable CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY and CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE.