linux-kernel - Re: kvm kdump regression

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Date:	Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:26:17 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, dhowells@...hat.com,
	graff.yang@...il.com, sonic.adi@...il.com,
	kexec <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: kvm kdump regression

On 09/14/2010 05:09 AM, CAI Qian wrote:
> This commit introduced a regression that an empty vmcore was generated on a kvm guest.
> ioremap: invalid physical address db74000000000000
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:83 __ioremap_caller+0x307/0x380()
> Hardware name: KVM
> Modules linked in:
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36-rc2-mm1+ #2
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff8105f48f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
>  [<ffffffff8103052e>] ? copy_oldmem_page+0x4e/0xc0
>  [<ffffffff8105f4ea>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
>  [<ffffffff8103f0a7>] __ioremap_caller+0x307/0x380
>  [<ffffffff8103f1f7>] ioremap_nocache+0x17/0x20
>  [<ffffffff8103052e>] copy_oldmem_page+0x4e/0xc0
>  [<ffffffff811af4ca>] read_from_oldmem+0x7a/0xb0
>  [<ffffffff81c4f70b>] merge_note_headers_elf64.clone.1+0x6c/0x21f
>  [<ffffffff8103056e>] ? copy_oldmem_page+0x8e/0xc0
>  [<ffffffff811af4ca>] ? read_from_oldmem+0x7a/0xb0
>  [<ffffffff81c4fa5b>] vmcore_init+0x19d/0x396
>  [<ffffffff81c4f8be>] ? vmcore_init+0x0/0x396
>  [<ffffffff81002053>] do_one_initcall+0x43/0x190
>  [<ffffffff81c278ab>] kernel_init+0x2a0/0x330
>  [<ffffffff8100be84>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
>  [<ffffffff81c2760b>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x330
>  [<ffffffff8100be80>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
> ---[ end trace 93d72a36b9146f22 ]---
> Kdump: vmcore not initialized
> 
> commit 020ec6537aa65c18e9084c568d7b94727f2026fd
> Author: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Date:   Fri Apr 9 18:57:00 2010 +0900
> 
>     percpu: factor out pcpu_addr_in_first/reserved_chunk() and update per_cpu_ptr_to_phys()

Hmm... I'm confused.  Isn't this the one fixed by commit 9983b6f0
(percpu: fix first chunk match in per_cpu_ptr_to_phys())?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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