On Wed 08 May 2013 15:51:30 Michael Tokarev escribió: > Control: tag -1 + moreinfo > > 08.05.2013 17:30, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > > Package: qemu-user-static > > Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-6a > > Severity: important > > > > Hi! I'm using qemu-mips-static to build some packages in a chroot. > > Up to late last year I could do this without problems, using > > a 64 bits wheezy host and a mips chroot. > > > > After updating the chroot to stable wheezy, I've found that running > > Doxygen with dot graphs enabled will make qemu-mips-static hang the CPU. > > It's interesting that you mention _chroot_ upgrade as something that > caused this issue to appear, not the _host_ upgrade. So as far as > I understand, it is a change in the "guest" broke existing qemu, -- > usually it is exactly the opposite, qemu upgrade breaks stuff...
Actually the development was done in parallel with two "hosts": a real
hardware sid install and under a virtualbox VM running Wheezy.
Both hosts were up to date in december and now.
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> and this is the very important point.
>
> This is qemu-user, it does not do any fancy stuff with the host kernel
> (like, say, qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm do) - it is regular userspace
> process doing the same stuff as any other regular app would do. If that
> causes the host kernel to not be able to release the process with kill -9,
> that's a big kernel issue.
>
> Please at least do a kernel stack dump (echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger),
> find the process in question and post it here. It may be that this bug
> report needs to be reassigned to kernel instead...
Excellent, will do that :-)
Thanks Michael!
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