On Sat, May 08, 2021 at 08:14:35AM -0400, Dave Voutila wrote:
>
> Josh Rickmar writes:
>
> > On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 04:19:18PM -0400, Dave Voutila wrote:
> >>
> >> Josh Rickmar writes:
> >>
> >> >>Synopsis:        vmm protection fault trap
> >> >>Category:        vmm
> >> >>Environment:
> >> >  System      : OpenBSD 6.9
> >> >  Details     : OpenBSD 6.9-current (GENERIC.MP) #6: Thu May  6 10:16:53 
> >> > MDT 2021
> >> >                   
> >> > dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
> >> >
> >> >  Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64
> >> >  Machine     : amd64
> >> >>Description:
> >> >
> >> > My nixos vm is causing the host kernel to crash (after cold boot) with
> >> > 'protection fault trap, code=0'.  The guest is running Linux 5.11.14
> >> > (guest dmesg included after the host dmesg below).  I've also attached
> >> > a screenshot of ddb showing the backtrace and registers.
> >> >
> >> >>How-To-Repeat:
> >> >
> >> > The crash can be reliably triggered by doing heavy disk IO on the vm.
> >> > Upgrading the VM actually got the nixos install wedged during an
> >> > initial crash, and attempting to repair it with "nix-build -A system
> >> > '<nixpkgs/nixos>' --repair" is reliably repeating the crash.
> >>
> >> Any chance you've experienced this with a non-NixOS guest? I can't
> >> reproduce this error on my Ryzen5 Pro host.
> >>
>
> I've reproduced this locally with the help of abieber@. Seems I just
> need to boot a nixos iso (nixos-21.05pre287333.63586475587-x86_64) and
> try installing a package like git into the ramdisk:
>
>   # nix-env -f '<nixpkgs>' -iA git
>
> I still haven't triggered this without nixos, but at least I can
> reproduce it locally now. :-)
>
> -dv
>

robert@ reported this same bug a long time ago and I could never reproduce it.

I'll see if it repros against my R415 using these instructions.

-ml

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