From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [qemu64,+smep,+smap] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 07:51:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FCEA12.9000006@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52FCDCE5.4010301@zytor.com>
On 02/13/2014 06:55 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/13/2014 04:45 AM, Fengguang Wu wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I find that when running
>>
>> qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu qemu64,+smep,+smap
>>
>> Some kernels will 100% produce this error, where the error code
>> -13,-14 are -EACCES and -EFAULT:
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
> I notice this is a non-SMAP kernel:
>
> # CONFIG_X86_SMAP is not set
>
> If the kernel turns on SMAP in CR4 even though SMAP isn't enabled in the
> kernel, that is a kernel bug. If Qemu enforces SMAP even if it is
> turned off in CR4, that would be a Qemu bug. I have reproduced the
> failure locally and an am considering both possibilities now.
>
No, it is simply a second kernel bug. I have patches for both and will
push them momentarily.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-13 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-13 12:45 [qemu64,+smep,+smap] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found Fengguang Wu
2014-02-13 14:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-13 15:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-02-13 15:51 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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