Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> When using kvm on my laptop, I get the following oops if I try using 
>>> kvm
>>> after a suspend (ACPI S3)/resume cycle.  At first I thought it went 
>>> away
>>> if I unloaded the module before suspending and then reloading it
>>> afterwards, but I can't reproduce that working now, so I might have 
>>> just
>>> been hallucinating.  Thoughts of things to try?
>>
>> Module unload/reload should work.  Can you try adding printks in 
>> hardware_disable() and hardware_enable()?
>
> Okay, what was going wrong with reloading was the difference between - 
> and _ with module naming :-/  *sigh*  Actually getting the module 
> unloaded then makes things work fine.

I was bitten by this too...

>
>> For real suspend support, we need to flush any cached state on Intel 
>> cpus (vmcs_clear), and to do the hardware_disable()/hardware_enable() 
>> cycle.  Should be easy.
>
> The obvious approach (attached) fails to resume -- there may be 
> console output, but hard to tell on my laptop.  I'll dig up a box with 
> a serial port to try there and see if I get something across serial 
> console with it.

It also needs cpu hotplug support, and some work to decache the vmcs on 
Intel hosts.  I have this three-quarters working now.


-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to 
panic.


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