linux-kernel - Re: Major KVM issues with kernel 4.5 on the host

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Message-ID: <570FD3C3.2030709@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:30:43 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm ML <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Major KVM issues with kernel 4.5 on the host



On 14/04/2016 18:47, Marc Haber wrote:
>> > Ok, then I guess bisection is needed.  Please first try commit
>> > 45bdbcfdf241.
> I did git checkout 45bdbcfdf241 and built the resulting kernel
> 4.4.0-rc5. This one has now been running for ten hours, which is
> threefold the longest time that a faulty kernel has held before a VM
> experienced corruption. So I guess, that one is fine.

Interesting, this means it's not a KVM bug.  You can ignore my patch
from yesterday (though we'll get it in anyway).

> Since 4.5.0-rc1 is bad, I guess I do:
> 
> git checkout 45bdbcfdf241
> git bisect start
> git bisect good
> git bisect bad v4.5.0-rc1

This is correct but you also want to do

git bisect good 4.4.0
git bisect good 4.4.0-rc5

so that bisection basically works through the commits in the merge window.

Thanks,

Paolo