Performing verification for mantic. I deployed mantic onto a bare metal server, with kernel 6.5.0-26-generic from -updates.
I installed a KVM stack, synced a cloud image, and tested VM creation. $ uvt-kvm create --cpu 4 --memory 4096 --disk 10 jammy-a release=jammy arch=amd64 $ uvt-kvm ssh jammy-a Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-101-generic x86_64) From there, I found the PID of the VM: $ ps aux | grep qemu libvirt+ 1799 107 1.5 9642380 1044752 ? Sl 03:21 0:38 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=jammy-a,debug-threads=on -S -object {"qom-ty We run perf: $ sudo perf top -p 1799 $ virsh console jammy-a Connected to domain 'jammy-a' Escape character is ^] (Ctrl + ]) [ 161.413890] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffe18cdb1c028 [ 161.419474] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 161.423707] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 161.427949] PGD 17ffca0[ 161.429508] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffe18cdb1c028 [ 161.429513] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 161.429516] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - n The VM suffers a page fault and crashes, and is not accessible over ssh. $ uvt-kvm ssh jammy-a (no response). I then enabled -proposed, and installed 6.5.0-27-generic: $ uname -rv 6.5.0-27-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Mar 7 18:21:00 UTC 2024 $ uvt-kvm create --cpu 4 --memory 4096 --disk 10 jammy-a release=jammy arch=amd64 $ uvt-kvm ssh jammy-a Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-101-generic x86_64) We get the pid of the VM: $ ps aux | grep qemu libvirt+ 1786 42.5 1.5 7960876 1022308 ? Sl 03:37 0:40 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=jammy-a,debug-threads=on -S -object {"qom-ty We run perf: $ sudo perf top -p 1786 This time, the VM does not crash, and stays running: $ virsh console jammy-a Connected to domain 'jammy-a' Escape character is ^] (Ctrl + ]) jammy-a login: jammy-a login: We can also ssh to the VM just fine: $ uvt-kvm ssh jammy-a Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-101-generic x86_64) This is much better. The kernel in -proposed fixes the issue, happy to mark verified for mantic. ** Tags removed: verification-needed-mantic-linux ** Tags added: verification-done-mantic-linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2054218 Title: kvm: Running perf against qemu processes results in page fault inside guest Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in linux source package in Mantic: Fix Committed Bug description: BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2054218 [Impact] Running perf against a QEMU/kvm process results in the guest suffering a page fault in trying to store Precise Event Based Sampling (PEBS) records for the host. This affects both using perf against a single process, in which it crashes the targeted guest, or using perf system wide, in which it crashes all running guests on the system. The issue was introduced in 6.0 by: commit c59a1f106f5cd4843c097069ff1bb2ad72103a67 Author: Like Xu <like...@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon Apr 11 18:19:36 2022 +0800 Subject: KVM: x86/pmu: Add IA32_PEBS_ENABLE MSR emulation for extended PEBS Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c59a1f106f5cd4843c097069ff1bb2ad72103a67 This affects all 6.2 and 6.5 kernels. There is no known workaround, apart from not using perf on affected systems. [Fix] The issue was fixed in 6.7 by: commit 971079464001c6856186ca137778e534d983174a Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> Date: Thu Jan 4 16:15:17 2024 +0100 Subject: KVM: x86/pmu: fix masking logic for MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=971079464001c6856186ca137778e534d983174a This reinstates the logic for setting MSR_CORE_PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL to what it was before "KVM: x86/pmu: Add IA32_PEBS_ENABLE MSR emulation for extended PEBS". - .guest = intel_ctrl & (~cpuc->intel_ctrl_host_mask | ~pebs_mask), + .guest = intel_ctrl & ~cpuc->intel_ctrl_host_mask & ~pebs_mask, The faulty logic includes any bit that isn't both marked as exclude_guest and using PEBS, while it should really be excluding PEBS from the host. [Testcase] Start a bare metal server. Enable KVM, start a few VMs. The VMs can be idle, they don't require any workload. $ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils uvtool $ sudo reboot $ ssh-keygen $ uvt-simplestreams-libvirt sync --source http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily release=jammy arch=amd64 $ uvt-kvm create --cpu 4 --memory 4096 --disk 10 jammy-a release=jammy arch=amd64 $ uvt-kvm create --cpu 4 --memory 4096 --disk 10 jammy-b release=jammy arch=amd64 $ uvt-kvm create --cpu 4 --memory 4096 --disk 10 jammy-c release=jammy arch=amd64 $ virsh list Id Name State ------------------------- 2 jammy-a running 3 jammy-b running 4 jammy-c running $ uvt-kvm ssh jammy-a Check it works. $ ps aux | grep qemu Find the pid of jammy-a $ perf top -p $PID $ virsh console jammy-a Escape character is ^] (Ctrl + ]) [ 357.793039] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffe49178c6028 $ uvt-kvm ssh jammy-a (no response) Test packages are available in the following ppa: https://launchpad.net/~mruffell/+archive/ubuntu/sf379502-test If you install it, then running perf against the PID of qemu processes will no longer crash the guest, and they will be accessible by SSH afterward. [Where problems could occur] We are rearranging the logic of setting the PEBS MSRs, which affects processor sampling of events. This will affect any profiling tools running against KVM based virtual machines, namely perf against QEMU. If a regression were to occur, running perf against a VM could cause it to page fault and subsequently crash, resulting in downtime. The only workaround will be to disable all profiling tools until a fix is available. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2054218/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp