Re: [kvm-devel] [ANNOUNCE] kvm-51 release

[david a. <da...@ci...>]

I now have hosts running both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of RHEL5.1. I will retry SMP guests on the RHEL5 kernel, but at present kvm-51 does not compile:

make -C kernel
make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/build M=`pwd` "$@"
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.el5-i686'
  LD      /opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel/built-in.o
  CC [M]  /opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel/svm.o
  CC [M]  /opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel/vmx.o
  CC [M]  /opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel/vmx-debug.o
  CC [M]  /opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel/kvm_main.o
/opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel/kvm_main.c: In function ‘kvm_cpu_hotplug’:
/opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel/kvm_main.c:1348: error: ‘CPU_UP_CANCELED_FROZEN’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel/kvm_main.c:1348: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel/kvm_main.c:1348: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[3]: *** [/opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel/kvm_main.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.el5-i686'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/kvm/kvm-51/kernel'
make: *** [kernel] Error 2

david


Avi Kivity wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>   
>>> Farkas Levente wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>       
>>>>> If you're having trouble on AMD systems, please try this out.
>>>>>     
>>>>>         
>>>> this version worse than kvm-50:-(
>>>> setup:
>>>> - host:
>>>>   - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600  @ 2.40GHz
>>>>   - Intel S3000AHV
>>>>   - 8GB RAM
>>>>   - CentOS-5
>>>>   - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 x86_64 64bit
>>>> - guest-1:
>>>>   - CentOS-5
>>>>   - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 i386 32bit
>>>> - guest-2:
>>>>   - CentOS-5
>>>>   - kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 x86_64 64bit
>>>> - guest-3:
>>>>   - Mandrake-9
>>>>   - kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk 32bit
>>>> - guest-4:
>>>>   - Windows XP Professional 32bit
>>>> smp not working on any centos guest (guests are hang during boot). even
>>>> the host crash. the worst thing is the host crash during boot with
>>>> another stack trace which i was not able to log.
>>>> i really would like to see some kind of stable version other then
>>>> kvm-36. i see there is a huge ongoing work on ia64, virtio, libkmv and
>>>> arch rearrange, but wouldn't it be better to fix these basic issues
>>>> first? like running two smp guest (32 and 64) on 64 smp host, just to
>>>> boot until the login screen.
>>>> this is when the guest stop and the host dump it:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Call Trace:
>>>>  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff800b2cd7>] softlockup_tick+0xdb/0xed
>>>>  [<ffffffff80093493>] update_process_times+0x42/0x68
>>>>  [<ffffffff80073e08>] smp_local_timer_interrupt+0x23/0x47
>>>>  [<ffffffff800744ca>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x41/0x47
>>>>  [<ffffffff8005bd4a>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0x6c
>>>>  <EOI>  [<ffffffff88201d8b>] :kvm:kvm_flush_remote_tlbs+0x16e/0x188
>>>>  [<ffffffff88201d78>] :kvm:kvm_flush_remote_tlbs+0x15b/0x188
>>>>  [<ffffffff8820101b>] :kvm:ack_flush+0x0/0x1
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> Are you sure this is a regression relative to kvm-50?  Please recheck.
>>>     
>> i', not sure this's a regression since kvm-50 was so terrible slow that
>> we switch back to kvm-46. but i can't catch any stack trace with kvm-50.
>> anyway even if it's not a regression it's currently not working with smp.
>>
>>   
> 
> I can't reproduce this on a centos system here running 2.6.18-8.el5 with 
> a 4-way FC6 x86_64 as guest.  It appears to survive a kernel compile.
> 
> What does one need to do in order to reproduce this?
>