* Ingo Molnar (mi...@elte.hu) wrote: > > * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@polymtl.ca> wrote: > > > Here is a new backtrace, taken with a huge amount of debugging active, > > which still > > points to an interrupt handler nested over kvm_mmu_pte_write as the > > culprit. It's > > weird that the kvm code gets called on my modest Pentium M laptop, which I > > think > > has no VT-x support at all. I am not running any KVM VMs on this machine. > > The > > problem still happens on 2.6.28.4, and Slub redzones did not identify any > > memory > > corruption. This could be due to kvm_mmu_pte_write which either should not > > be > > called at all, or due to improper interrupt disabling in this function. > > Does latest tip:master fix it? In particular this one: > > 9cf161a: x86/cpa: make sure cpa is safe to call in lazy mmu mode > > fixes a crasher related to KVM and mmu notifiers ... > > Ingo
I'll try to apply commit 9cf161a: x86/cpa: make sure cpa is safe to call in lazy mmu mode To my 2.6.28.4 kernel to change the configuration minimally and see if it helps. I guess we'll have to wait a few days before the problem is reproduced, and even more if it's not. :) Thanks a lot! Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
