linux-kernel - Re: kvm splat in mmu_spte_clear_track

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Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:43:55 +0800
From:   Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kvm splat in mmu_spte_clear_track_bits

2017-08-23 20:22 GMT+08:00 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>:
> On 22/08/2017 00:32, Adam Borowski wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:58:34PM +0200, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>>> 2017-08-21 21:12+0200, Adam Borowski:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:26:57AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>>>> 2017-08-21 7:13 GMT+08:00 Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>:
>>>>>> I'm afraid I keep getting a quite reliable, but random, splat when running
>>>>>> KVM:
>>>>>
>>>>> I reported something similar before. https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/6/29/64
>>>>
>>>> Your problem seems to require OOM; I don't have any memory pressure at all:
>>>> running a single 2GB guest while there's nothing big on the host (bloatfox,
>>>> xfce, xorg, terminals + some minor junk); 8GB + (untouched) swap.  There's
>>>> no memory pressure inside the guest either -- none was Linux (I wanted to
>>>> test something on hurd, kfreebsd) and I doubt they even got to use all of
>>>> their frames.
>>>
>>> I even tried hurd, but couldn't reproduce ...
>>
>> Also happens with a win10 guest, and with multiple Linuxes.
>>
>>> what is your qemu command
>>> line and the output of host's `grep . /sys/module/kvm*/parameters/*`?
>>
>> qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -vga qxl -usbdevice tablet \
>>  -net bridge -net nic \
>>  -drive file="$DISK",cache=writeback,index=0,media=disk,discard=on
>>
>> qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -vga qxl -usbdevice tablet \
>>  -net bridge -net nic \
>>  -drive file="$DISK",cache=unsafe,index=0,media=disk,discard=on,if=virtio,format=raw
>>
>> /sys/module/kvm/parameters/halt_poll_ns:200000
>> /sys/module/kvm/parameters/halt_poll_ns_grow:2
>> /sys/module/kvm/parameters/halt_poll_ns_shrink:0
>> /sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs:N
>> /sys/module/kvm/parameters/kvmclock_periodic_sync:Y
>> /sys/module/kvm/parameters/lapic_timer_advance_ns:0
>> /sys/module/kvm/parameters/min_timer_period_us:500
>> /sys/module/kvm/parameters/tsc_tolerance_ppm:250
>> /sys/module/kvm/parameters/vector_hashing:Y
>> /sys/module/kvm_amd/parameters/avic:0
>> /sys/module/kvm_amd/parameters/nested:1
>> /sys/module/kvm_amd/parameters/npt:1
>> /sys/module/kvm_amd/parameters/vls:0
>>
>>>> Also, it doesn't reproduce for me on 4.12.
>>>
>>> Great info ... the most suspicious between v4.12 and v4.13-rc5 is the
>>> series with dcdca5fed5f6 ("x86: kvm: mmu: make spte mmio mask more
>>> explicit"), does reverting it help?
>>>
>>> `git revert ce00053b1cfca312c22e2a6465451f1862561eab~1..995f00a619584e65e53eff372d9b73b121a7bad5`
>>
>> Alas, doesn't seem to help.
>>
>> I've first installed a Debian stretch guest, the host survived both the
>> installation and subsequent fooling around.  But then I started a win10
>> guest which splatted as soon as the initial screen.
>
> Can you check if disabling THP on the host also fixes it for you?  I
> would also try commit 1372324b328cd5dabaef5e345e37ad48c63df2a9 to
> identify whether it was caused by a KVM change in 4.13 or something else.

For the OOM testcase, the splat will disappear if disabling THP.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li