* linzhecheng (linzhech...@huawei.com) wrote: > Hi, all > I encounterd a bug when I try to migrate a windows vm. > > Enviroment information: > host A: cpu E5620(model WestmereEP without flag xsave) > host B: cpu E5-2643(model SandyBridgeEP with xsave) > > The reproduce steps is : > 1. Start a windows 2008 vm with -cpu host(which means host-passthrough). > 2. Migrate the vm to host B when cr4.OSXSAVE=0 (successfully). > 3. Vm runs on host B for a while so that cr4.OSXSAVE changes to 1. > 4. Then migrate the vm to host A (successfully), but vm was paused, and qemu > printed log as followed:
Remember that migrating using -cpu host across different CPU models is NOT expected to work. > KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021 > > If you're running a guest on an Intel machine without unrestricted mode > support, the failure can be most likely due to the guest entering an invalid > state for Intel VT. For example, the guest maybe running in big real mode > which is not supported on less recent Intel processors. > > EAX=019b3bb0 EBX=01a3ae80 ECX=01a61ce8 EDX=00000000 > ESI=01a62000 EDI=00000000 EBP=00000000 ESP=01718b20 > EIP=0185d982 EFL=00000286 [--S--P-] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0 > ES =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 > CS =f000 ffff0000 0000ffff 00009b00 > SS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 > DS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 > FS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 > GS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300 > LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200 > TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00 > GDT= 00000000 0000ffff > IDT= 00000000 0000ffff > CR0=60000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000 > DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000 > DR3=0000000000000000 > DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400 > EFER=0000000000000000 > Code=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 <00> 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > 00 > > I have found that problem happened when kvm_put_sregs returns err -22(called > by kvm_arch_put_registers(qemu)). > Because kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_sregs(kvm-mod) checked that guest_cpuid_has > no X86_FEATURE_XSAVE but cr4.OSXSAVE=1. > So should we cancel migration when kvm_arch_put_registers returns error? It would seem good if we can make the migration fail there rather than hitting that KVM error. It looks like we need to do a bit of plumbing to convert the places that call it to return a bool rather than void. Dave -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
