On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:18:17AM +0100, Chris Clayton wrote: > On 07/11/12 08:12, Gleb Natapov wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:09:42AM +0100, Chris Clayton wrote: > >>Ping. > >> > >>Have I committed a bug-reporting sin in the mail below or is > >>everyone simply too busy to look at this kvm-related crash? > >> > >Since you have good and bad points can you bisect the problem? > > > > Yes, I can bisect, but since the crash occurs with only only one > combination of qemu-kvm (1.1.0) and kernel (3.5.0-rc6), I'm not sure > which of those I should bisect. Any ideas on how I could narrow that > down. > Bisect qemu between qemu-kvm-1.0.1 & qemu-kvm-1.1.0.
> Thanks. > >>On 07/09/12 11:57, Chris Clayton wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>When I run WinXP SP3 through qemu-kvm-1.1.0 on linux kernel 3.5.0-rc6, I > >>>get a segmentation fault within 3 or 4 minutes maximum. In dmesg I see: > >>> > >>>qemu-kvm: sending ioctl 5326 to a partition! > >>>qemu-kvm: sending ioctl 801c0204 to a partition! > >>>qemu-kvm: sending ioctl 5326 to a partition! > >>>qemu-kvm: sending ioctl 801c0204 to a partition! > >>>qemu-kvm: sending ioctl 5326 to a partition! > >>>qemu-kvm: sending ioctl 801c0204 to a partition! > >>>qemu-kvm: sending ioctl 5326 to a partition! > >>>qemu-kvm: sending ioctl 801c0204 to a partition! > >>>qemu-kvm[860] general protection ip:b6abad77 sp:b52ff09c error:0 in > >>>libc-2.16.so[b697d000+1b4000] > >>> > >>>The crash does not occur with qemu-kvm-1.0.1 on rc6. Nor does it occur > >>>qemu-kvm-1.0.1 or qemu-kvm-1.1.0 on kernel 3.4.4. All three combinations > >>>survive for 15 minutes or more > >>> > >>>When I try to get a backtrace with gdb, the screen on which konsole and > >>>qemu are running locks up until I kill qemu in another console. > >>>Consequently I can't get a full BT, but, although probably not very > >>>helpful, what I did get is: > >>> > >>>Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > >>>[Switching to Thread 0xb6946b40 (LWP 506)] > >>>0xb7705d77 in __strcmp_sse4_2 () from /lib/libc.so.6 > >>>(gdb) bt > >>>#0 0xb7705d77 in __strcmp_sse4_2 () from /lib/libc.so.6 > >>>#1 0xb7e8d6e3 in g_str_equal () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 > >>>#2 0xb7e8c94c in g_hash_table_lookup () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 > >>>Cannot access memory at address 0xb694610c > >>>(gdb) > >>> > >>>Note that the gdb and dmesg outputs above are not from the same crash > >>>instance. > >>> > >>>I'm not subscribed,so please cc me on any reply. > >>> > >>>Happy to provide any additional diagnostics (but may need help on how to > >>>get them) or test patches, etc > >>> > >>>Thanks > >>> > >>>Chris Clayton > >> > >> > >>-- > >>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 > > > >-- > > Gleb. > > > -- Gleb. -- 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