linux-kernel - Re: KVM selftests are failing

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Date:   Wed, 14 Nov 2018 19:19:44 +0100
From:   Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>
To:     drjones@...hat.com
Cc:     ahmedsoliman@...a.vt.edu, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, peterx@...hat.com,
        vkuznets@...hat.com,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: KVM selftests are failing

On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 19:08, Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 05:30:28PM +0200, Ahmed Soliman wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > KVM Self tests located at tools/testing/selftests/kvm seams to be failing.
> > I have tried:
> >  - dirty_log_test
> >  - x86_64/cr4_cpuid_sync_test
> >  - x86_64/evmcs_test
> >  - x86_64/platform_info_test
> >  - x86_64/set_sregs_test
> >  - x86_64/state_test
> >  - x86_64/sync_regs_test
> >  - x86_64/vmx_tsc_adjust_test
> >
> > All of them triggered the following assert:
> >
> >         ==== Test Assertion Failure ====
> >         lib/kvm_util.c:596: ret == 0
> >         pid=24507 tid=24507 - Invalid argument
> >             1  0x000056360774e468: ?? ??:0
> >             2  0x000056360774e609: ?? ??:0
> >             3  0x00005636077537a0: ?? ??:0
> >             4  0x000056360774d35e: ?? ??:0
> >             5  0x00007f3117571ae6: ?? ??:0
> >             6  0x000056360774d4a9: ?? ??:0
> >         madvise failed,
> >         addr: 0x7f3117350000
> >         length: 0x200000
> >         src_type: 0
> >
> > I have tried the tests on both kvm(next) branch
> > commit 22a7cdcae6a4a3c89748 as well as
> > torvald's master  4.20-rc2.
>
> Hi Ahmed,

Hi Drew, Ahmed,

>
> I couldn't reproduce this on a Westmere. Are you sure you're testing
> a clean compilation? Can you bisect the kernel?

What would be the difference in CONFIG_* fragments that you both have enabled?


Cheers,
Anders