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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Derek Yerger <derek@djy.llc>
Cc: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 206215] New: QEMU guest crash due to random 'general protection fault' since kernel 5.2.5 on i7-3517UE
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 07:38:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200116153854.GA20561@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6ec4418-4ac1-e619-7402-18c085bc340d@djy.llc>

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 08:08:32PM -0500, Derek Yerger wrote:
> On 1/15/20 4:52 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >+cc Derek, who is hitting the same thing.
> >
> >On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 09:18:56PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> >>https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206215
> >*snip*
> >that's a big smoking gun pointing at commit ca7e6b286333 ("KVM: X86: Fix
> >fpu state crash in kvm guest"), which is commit e751732486eb upstream.
> >
> >1. Can you verify reverting ca7e6b286333 (or e751732486eb in upstream)
> >    solves the issue?
> >
> >2. Assuming the answer is yes, on a buggy kernel, can you run with the
> >    attached patch to try get debug info?
> I did these out of order since I had 5.3.11 built with the patch, ready to
> go for weeks now, waiting for an opportunity to test.
> 
> Win10 guest immediately BSOD'ed with:
> 
> WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 9296 at include/linux/thread_info.h:55
> kernel_fpu_begin+0x6b/0xc0

Can you provide the full stack trace of the WARN?  I'm hoping that will
provide a hint as to what's going wrong.

> Then stashed the patch, reverted ca7e6b286333, compile, reboot.
> 
> Guest is running stable now on 5.3.11. Did test my CAD under the guest, did
> not experience the crashes that had me stuck at 5.1.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-16 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-15 21:18 [Bug 206215] New: QEMU guest crash due to random 'general protection fault' since kernel 5.2.5 on i7-3517UE bugzilla-daemon
2020-01-15 21:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-01-16  1:08   ` Derek Yerger
2020-01-16 15:38     ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2020-01-16 18:08       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-01-16 19:21       ` Derek Yerger
2020-01-16 19:32         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-01-15 21:52 ` [Bug 206215] " bugzilla-daemon
2020-01-15 22:15 ` bugzilla-daemon
2020-01-16  1:15 ` bugzilla-daemon
2020-01-16  1:36 ` bugzilla-daemon
2020-01-16 15:38 ` bugzilla-daemon
2020-01-16 18:08 ` bugzilla-daemon
2020-01-16 19:21 ` bugzilla-daemon
2020-01-16 19:32 ` bugzilla-daemon
2020-01-17 22:43 ` bugzilla-daemon

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