Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-18 Thread David Brown
> Great, that increases the probability that the patch is a net gain. > > I don't think you need to run the SLES installer as both Sergey and me > have it working. Instead, running with your regular workload (possibly > stressing it) would be a good test. Okay yeah I don't seem to have problems a

Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-18 Thread Avi Kivity
David Brown wrote: >> >> I see. Consider it pushed. I'll send it linuswards if there's no >> negative feedback in a day or two. >> > > Oooo, patch! > > What was the method for reproduction? since I was unable to reproduce > the bug maybe I could with your method. > It was the SLES 9 installer/in

Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-18 Thread Kiselev, Sergey
It fixes the problem, at least for me... Thanks, Sergey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Avi Kivity Sent: 18 April 2007 11:22 To: David Brown Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm Avi Kivity wrote

Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-18 Thread David Brown
> > I see. Consider it pushed. I'll send it linuswards if there's no > negative feedback in a day or two. > Oooo, patch! What was the method for reproduction? since I was unable to reproduce the bug maybe I could with your method. Don't worry I'll be on this thread until the problem is fixed,

Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-18 Thread Avi Kivity
Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > >> Ok. You mean you're running linus -rc? >> > > In fact I do. But I didn't meant that upstream. I was talking about your > repository[1]. But it isn't in the kvm kernel repository yet. So I commited it > local. And thanks to git if you commit it, it will merge th

Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-18 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Avi, > hehe, the 4g4g patch. I see. I thought noone would use that anymore because of the overhead during context switches. > It's the same bug. perfect. > Ok. You mean you're running linus -rc? In fact I do. But I didn't meant that upstream. I was talking about your repository[1]. But

Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-18 Thread Avi Kivity
Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > Hello Avi, > I had an kernel OOPS that morning with RHEL_5_ it isn't reproducable. > > Apr 18 08:57:42 thinkpad kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer > dereference at virtual address 0024 > Apr 18 08:57:42 thinkpad kernel: printing eip: > Apr 18 08:57:42

Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-18 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Avi, I had an kernel OOPS that morning with RHEL_5_ it isn't reproducable. Apr 18 08:57:42 thinkpad kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0024 Apr 18 08:57:42 thinkpad kernel: printing eip: Apr 18 08:57:42 thinkpad kernel: 78351d8c Apr 18 08:5

Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-18 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: David Brown wrote: I was wondering of anyone could help out on this, just found an oopse when trying to start rhel4 on i386 box. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this with kvm-18 and if I should submit a bug for it. [10937.52] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL po

Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-17 Thread David Brown
> I've seen a few reports like this, but never managed to get one of my own. > > Is this reproducible? If so, a recipe would be _very_ valuable. > > At what stage in the boot process does it crash? > No its not entirely reproducible, I made it happen using the standard rhel4 kernel and it was tr

Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-17 Thread Avi Kivity
David Brown wrote: > I was wondering of anyone could help out on this, just found an oopse > when trying to start rhel4 on i386 box. I was wondering if anyone else > has seen this with kvm-18 and if I should submit a bug for it. > > [10937.52] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereferen

Re: [kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-17 Thread David Brown
Just realized kvm-19 is out I'll go update and try again. - David Brown On 4/17/07, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering of anyone could help out on this, just found an oopse > when trying to start rhel4 on i386 box. I was wondering if anyone else > has seen this with kvm-18 a

[kvm-devel] Oopse in kvm

2007-04-17 Thread David Brown
I was wondering of anyone could help out on this, just found an oopse when trying to start rhel4 on i386 box. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this with kvm-18 and if I should submit a bug for it. [10937.52] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00