From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761427AbZDJL6l (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:58:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752442AbZDJL6b (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:58:31 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:46206 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752018AbZDJL6a (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:58:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:58:03 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Luis Henriques , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Avi Kivity , Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problem with kvm on -tip Message-ID: <20090410115803.GL21506@elte.hu> References: <20090409210738.GA4566@hades.domain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090409210738.GA4566@hades.domain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Luis Henriques wrote: > Hi, > > Since I am not sure if this problem has already been reported, here it goes. > > My log gets the following messages in -tip tree. I don't know for > how long this issue is around and whether the problem is on > lockdep or on kvm. After the first lockdep message, I get a huge > amount of BUGs from kvm (which stop only when I kill kvm). So, I > believe issue is on kvm. Jeremy, have you considered (and tested) KVM when doing the MMU/CPU notifier changes? It's these changes: 224101e: x86/paravirt: finish change from lazy cpu to context switch start/end b407fc5: x86/paravirt: flush pending mmu updates on context switch 7fd7d83: x86/pvops: replace arch_enter_lazy_cpu_mode with arch_start_context_switch Ingo