From: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
To: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kvm splat in mmu_spte_clear_track_bits
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 00:32:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170821223228.edc6jrm7bpybtqlj@angband.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170821195833.GA696@flask>
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:58:34PM +0200, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> 2017-08-21 21:12+0200, Adam Borowski:
> > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:26:57AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> > > 2017-08-21 7:13 GMT+08:00 Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>:
> > > > I'm afraid I keep getting a quite reliable, but random, splat when running
> > > > KVM:
> > >
> > > I reported something similar before. https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/29/64
> >
> > Your problem seems to require OOM; I don't have any memory pressure at all:
> > running a single 2GB guest while there's nothing big on the host (bloatfox,
> > xfce, xorg, terminals + some minor junk); 8GB + (untouched) swap. There's
> > no memory pressure inside the guest either -- none was Linux (I wanted to
> > test something on hurd, kfreebsd) and I doubt they even got to use all of
> > their frames.
>
> I even tried hurd, but couldn't reproduce ...
Also happens with a win10 guest, and with multiple Linuxes.
> what is your qemu command
> line and the output of host's `grep . /sys/module/kvm*/parameters/*`?
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -vga qxl -usbdevice tablet \
-net bridge -net nic \
-drive file="$DISK",cache=writeback,index=0,media=disk,discard=on
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -vga qxl -usbdevice tablet \
-net bridge -net nic \
-drive file="$DISK",cache=unsafe,index=0,media=disk,discard=on,if=virtio,format=raw
/sys/module/kvm/parameters/halt_poll_ns:200000
/sys/module/kvm/parameters/halt_poll_ns_grow:2
/sys/module/kvm/parameters/halt_poll_ns_shrink:0
/sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs:N
/sys/module/kvm/parameters/kvmclock_periodic_sync:Y
/sys/module/kvm/parameters/lapic_timer_advance_ns:0
/sys/module/kvm/parameters/min_timer_period_us:500
/sys/module/kvm/parameters/tsc_tolerance_ppm:250
/sys/module/kvm/parameters/vector_hashing:Y
/sys/module/kvm_amd/parameters/avic:0
/sys/module/kvm_amd/parameters/nested:1
/sys/module/kvm_amd/parameters/npt:1
/sys/module/kvm_amd/parameters/vls:0
> > Also, it doesn't reproduce for me on 4.12.
>
> Great info ... the most suspicious between v4.12 and v4.13-rc5 is the
> series with dcdca5fed5f6 ("x86: kvm: mmu: make spte mmio mask more
> explicit"), does reverting it help?
>
> `git revert ce00053b1cfca312c22e2a6465451f1862561eab~1..995f00a619584e65e53eff372d9b73b121a7bad5`
Alas, doesn't seem to help.
I've first installed a Debian stretch guest, the host survived both the
installation and subsequent fooling around. But then I started a win10
guest which splatted as soon as the initial screen.
Meow!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-21 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-20 23:13 kvm splat in mmu_spte_clear_track_bits Adam Borowski
2017-08-21 1:26 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-08-21 19:12 ` Adam Borowski
2017-08-21 19:58 ` Radim Krčmář
2017-08-21 22:32 ` Adam Borowski [this message]
2017-08-23 12:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-24 7:43 ` Wanpeng Li
2017-08-25 13:14 ` Adam Borowski
2017-08-25 13:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-08-27 12:35 ` Adam Borowski
2017-08-28 15:26 ` Bernhard Held
2017-08-28 16:01 ` Takashi Iwai
2017-08-28 16:07 ` Bernhard Held
2017-08-28 16:17 ` Takashi Iwai
2017-08-28 16:56 ` Nadav Amit
2017-08-29 9:19 ` Bernhard Held
[not found] ` <s5hh8wq8ruy.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
2017-08-29 12:59 ` Adam Borowski
2017-08-29 14:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2017-08-29 16:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 18:28 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-08-29 18:34 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-08-29 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 19:13 ` Jerome Glisse
2017-08-29 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-29 20:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2017-08-29 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-08-30 8:19 ` Michal Hocko
2017-08-29 15:53 ` Nadav Amit
2017-08-29 12:57 ` Mike Galbraith
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