From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Auger Eric Subject: Re: v4.9-rc1 fails booting as a guest on ARM64 Cavium ThunderX Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 14:30:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <924fd627-329a-54e0-694c-a9bdf979f696@redhat.com> <99c7d3b5-0495-083f-b4b7-b58b20cf859e@redhat.com> <20161103180127.GX25086@rric.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marc Zyngier , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" , Christoffer Dall , Andrew Jones , daniel.thompson@linaro.org, Robert Richter To: Robert Richter Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38796 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755107AbcKDNaj (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2016 09:30:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20161103180127.GX25086@rric.localdomain> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Robert, On 03/11/2016 19:01, Robert Richter wrote: > Eric, > > On 21.10.16 11:05:01, Auger Eric wrote: >> On 21/10/2016 10:45, Marc Zyngier wrote: > >>> What is the failure syndrome? Do you see it crashing? Locking up? What >>> is the PC at that stage? >> No guest crash. the guest just locks up. No traces output. > > I am trying to reproduce this but could boot a 4.9-rc3 kernel as > guest. Are there any special settings? Here my command line: > > qemu-system-aarch64 -name qemu.test -enable-kvm -smp 8 -m 16G -cpu host -nographic -kernel /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-rc3.0.vanilla10-00002-gcfd8c2cee6ac -initrd /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-rc3.0.vanilla10-00002-gcfd8c2cee6ac -M virt,gic_version=3 -hdb /dev/sdb -append "root=/dev/vda3" > > Thanks, no, nothing special. I checked again with a 4.9-rc3 host and guest and the guest fails booting except if I comment the gic_write_bpr1(0) call. Thanks Eric > > -Robert > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >