Re: [kvm-devel] Protected mode transitions and big real mode... still an issue

2008-05-05 Thread Balaji Rao
On Monday 05 May 2008 06:10:08 pm Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2008 13:56:56 +0530 > > Balaji Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With your patch applied ubuntu 8.04 livecd fails to boot. Not any better > > with Marcelo's patch on top. > > Hi B

Re: [kvm-devel] Protected mode transitions and big real mode... still an issue

2008-05-03 Thread Balaji Rao
6d 01 28 1e 01 28 6d 01 28 1f 01 28 6d 01 28 73 01 17 --> 0f 28 6d 01 28 74 01 17 0f 17 3b 28 6d 01 28 75 01 17 0f 28 6d 01 28 76 01 17 0f 11 1c 17 Aborted -- Warm Regards, Balaji Rao Dept. of Mechanical Engineering NITK --

Re: [kvm-devel] kernel BUG at drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:218!

2008-04-06 Thread Balaji Rao
On Sunday 06 April 2008 12:56:33 pm Rusty Russell wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2008 00:53:39 Balaji Rao wrote: > > On Friday 04 April 2008 01:46:21 pm Balaji Rao wrote: > > > Hi Rusty, > > > > > > I hit a bug in virtio_ring.c:218 when I was stressing vi

Re: [kvm-devel] kernel BUG at drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:218!

2008-04-05 Thread Balaji Rao
On Friday 04 April 2008 01:46:21 pm Balaji Rao wrote: > Hi Rusty, > > I hit a bug in virtio_ring.c:218 when I was stressing virtio_net using kvm > with -smp 4. > > static void vring_disable_cb(struct virtqueue *_vq) > { > struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq)

[kvm-devel] kernel BUG at drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:218!

2008-04-04 Thread Balaji Rao
e need to retain it. If you agree, I'll send a patch to this. -- thanks and regards, Balaji Rao Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketpl

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Mark kobjects as unitialized

2008-03-10 Thread Balaji Rao
On Monday 10 March 2008 09:22:00 pm Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:51:15PM +0530, Balaji Rao wrote: > > On Sunday 09 March 2008 12:33:07 pm Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > This patch does

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Mark kobjects as unitialized

2008-03-08 Thread Balaji Rao
v_class_register(struct sysdev_class * cls) pr_debug("Registering sysdev class '%s'\n", kobject_name(&cls->kset.kobj)); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cls->drivers); + memset(&cls->kset.kobj, 0x00, sizeof(struct kobject));

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Mark kobjects as unitialized

2008-03-08 Thread Balaji Rao
On Sunday 09 March 2008 12:03:08 pm Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:37:16AM +0530, Balaji Rao wrote: > > On Thursday 06 March 2008 11:35:59 pm Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:20:50PM +0530, Balaji Rao wrote: > > > > On Thursday 06 March

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Mark kobjects as unitialized

2008-03-08 Thread Balaji Rao
On Sunday 09 March 2008 10:36:49 am Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:37:16AM +0530, Balaji Rao wrote: > > On Thursday 06 March 2008 11:35:59 pm Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:20:50PM +0530, Balaji Rao wrote: > > > > On Thursday 06 March

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Mark kobjects as unitialized

2008-03-08 Thread Balaji Rao
On Thursday 06 March 2008 11:35:59 pm Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:20:50PM +0530, Balaji Rao wrote: > > On Thursday 06 March 2008 10:35:14 pm Greg KH wrote: > > > > > Where exactly in the code does that happen? kobjects should not be > > > "

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Mark kobjects as unitialized

2008-03-06 Thread Balaji Rao
is! But, why do you hate it ? -- regards, balaji rao 3rd year, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visu

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] Mark kobjects as unitialized

2008-03-06 Thread Balaji Rao
the kobject as uninitialized when we cleanup to allow kobjects to be reused. Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 0d03252..fbdefb8 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -577,6 +577,9 @@ static void kobject_cleanup(

Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-guest-drivers-linux-1

2008-03-06 Thread Balaji Rao
lready supported > virtio, but I think we need some support from host kernel as well? Hi Jun, No, AFAIK we don't need any support from the host kernel. We just need a virtio backend to be present in qemu, which is there in the latest kvm-userspace. -- regards, balaji rao --

[kvm-devel] problem booting linux kernel directly with virtio

2008-02-21 Thread Balaji Rao
r hda here, but for the boot disk. I tried to fix it, but I could not figure out any clean way of obtaining the boot disk. Please help. -- regards, balaji rao NITK - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsof

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Performance monitoring units and KVM

2008-02-16 Thread Balaji Rao
On Sunday 17 February 2008 03:34:43 am Anthony Liguori wrote: > Balaji Rao wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > Earlier it was suggested that we go ahead with emulating Perf Mon Events > > in exposing it to the guest. The serious limitation in this approach is > > that we en

[kvm-devel] [RFC] Performance monitoring units and KVM

2008-02-16 Thread Balaji Rao
ing a migrate_notifier, or something like that.. Please provide comments on this. -- regards, balaji rao NITK - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.

[kvm-devel] Query on migration

2008-02-15 Thread Balaji Rao
Hello all, When going through orpofile code, I noticed that boot_cpu_data was used to determine CPU vendor, family etc. Will this be updated on migration to a different Machine say, from Intel to AMD ? If not, wouldn't it cause problems ? Please clarify. -- regards, balaj

Re: [kvm-devel] Performance monitoring units and KVM

2008-01-30 Thread Balaji Rao
On Thursday 31 January 2008 08:42:32 am Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:44:10AM +0530, Balaji Rao wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 January 2008 11:56:25 pm Andi Kleen wrote: > > > There is no really an architectural PMU if you consider > > > boxes beyond relat

Re: [kvm-devel] Performance monitoring units and KVM

2008-01-30 Thread Balaji Rao
r into the local MSR. > > The only trouble is that is no architectural way to tell > the guest "i support only counter X Y Z" and also no > nice way to reject a particular counter except for just > not ticking. Can

Re: [kvm-devel] Performance monitoring units and KVM

2008-01-30 Thread Balaji Rao
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 11:44:39 pm Avi Kivity wrote: > Balaji Rao wrote: > > But don't the architectural performance counters vary between Intel and > > AMD cpus ? AFAIK, they do. And, this would pose problems during migration > > between Intel and AMD hosts. >

Re: [kvm-devel] Performance monitoring units and KVM

2008-01-30 Thread Balaji Rao
n the guest if they intend it to to be Intel<->AMD migrateable ? regards, balaji rao - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visua

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] nmi watchdog in kvm

2008-01-30 Thread Balaji Rao
rong place. If you have a vcpu, you'd better be in > vcpu context. Oh.. ok. Looks like I have not understood the vcpu concept correctly. Will put more thought into it and understand it before I attempt to fix this. thank you, balaji rao ---

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] nmi watchdog in kvm

2008-01-30 Thread Balaji Rao
vmx(vcpu); +   if (vmx->launched) +   vmcs_write32(VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD, +   2 | INTR_TYPE_NMI | INTR_INFO_VALID_MASK); +} regards, balaji rao - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Micros

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] nmi watchdog in kvm

2008-01-28 Thread Balaji Rao
On Monday 28 January 2008 08:30:32 pm Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:12:26PM +0530, Balaji Rao wrote: > > On Monday 28 January 2008 05:59:25 pm Joerg Roedel wrote: > > > This patch kills the ability of KVM to migrate between AMD and Intel > > > be

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] nmi watchdog in kvm

2008-01-28 Thread Balaji Rao
On Monday 28 January 2008 05:59:25 pm Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:48:40PM +0530, Balaji Rao wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was trying to enable the use of nmi watchdog within a linux guest > > running in kvm. I have done it by allowing direct access to

[kvm-devel] [RFC] nmi watchdog in kvm

2008-01-28 Thread Balaji Rao
bool has_error_code, u32 error_code); bool (*exception_injected)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu); + void (*inject_nmi)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu); void (*inject_pending_irq)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu); void (*inject_pending_vectors)(

[kvm-devel] New to KVM

2008-01-02 Thread Balaji Rao
hared memory is probably a good starting point." Is it already done ? Can i start working on it ? Any comments would be appreciated. Thanking you in advance, balaji rao - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsof