linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] kvm: guest can not startup due to triple fault

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Date:	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:15:51 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>
CC:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] kvm: guest can not startup due to triple fault

  On 10/18/2010 09:14 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Am 18.10.2010 06:43, Dave Young wrote:
> >  On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@...hat.com>  wrote:
> >>   On 10/17/2010 12:14 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Avi Kivity<avi@...hat.com>   wrote:
> >>>>     On 10/17/2010 10:54 AM, Dave Young wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   linux guest can not startup normally, qemu keep rebooting.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   host&     guest both use linux-2.6.36-rc8+ kernel
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   Add a dump_stack in x86.c around EXIT_SHUTDOWN code, I got:
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503041] Pid: 1685, comm: qemu-system-x86 Not tainted
> >>>>>  2.6.36-rc8+
> >>>>>   #62
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503045] Call Trace:
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503055]  [<ffffffffa0176047>] handle_triple_fault+0x11/0x26
> >>>>>   [kvm_intel]
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503060]  [<ffffffffa01772d2>] vmx_handle_exit+0x3df/0x474
> >>>>>   [kvm_intel]
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503080]  [<ffffffffa021f203>]
> >>>>>  kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x95f/0xc43
> >>>>>   [kvm]
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503087]  [<ffffffff81503e54>] ?
> >>>>>  __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x11c/0x131
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503101]  [<ffffffffa021e1f9>] ? kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x90/0xe6
> >>>>>  [kvm]
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503112]  [<ffffffffa0210faf>] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x109/0x54a [kvm]
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503117]  [<ffffffff810bee76>] ?
> >>>>>   fire_user_return_notifiers+0x2c/0x36
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503122]  [<ffffffff8106be93>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503127]  [<ffffffff81002789>] ? do_notify_resume+0x717/0x73d
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503131]  [<ffffffff8103994e>] ? finish_task_switch+0x69/0xda
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503135]  [<ffffffff8110628c>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x4c3/0x50d
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503139]  [<ffffffff8110632b>] sys_ioctl+0x55/0x77
> >>>>>   [ 3924.503142]  [<ffffffff81002c02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   Anyone can help on this?
> >>>>
> >>>>   Please provide a trace (trace-cmd record -e kvm) leading to the
> >>>>  failure.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>  Hi, please see:
> >>>  http://userweb.kernel.org/~davey/tmp/trace.dat
> >>>
> >>
> >>  Was this done with an old version of trace-cmd?  Please use the latest git.
> >>   Make sure you have udis86 and udis86-devel installed when you build it.
> >
> >  Hi, the trace-cmd was build from git version, but without udis86.
> >
> >  I updated trace.dat on the same url, is it a correct one?
> >
>
> IIUC, plugin_kvm is only involved in reporting, not recording, so udis86
> shouldn't matter.
>
> I had a look out of curiosity (just managed to make my trace tools work
> smoothly), and the data is properly parsed by kernelshark here. There is
> a strange NMI storm going on right before the triple fault (on some MSR
> write) hits the fan.
>

It's secondary_startup_64 enabling efer.sce and efer.nx.

Dave, please post your /proc/cpuinfo.  Is your host running with NX 
disabled?

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