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Discussion about why this is causing an issue on LTS/stable kernels, but not upstream. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1852047 Title: [Bionic][Regression] Disabling EPT results in KVM guests that won't start Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux source package in Bionic: New Bug description: Starting with 4.15.0-68.77, currently in bionic-proposed, I can no longer launch VMs when I disable EPT support in the kvm_intel module. This works fine under 4.15.0-66.75 from bionic-security. ubuntu@vought:~$ cat /proc/version_signature Ubuntu 4.15.0-68.77-generic 4.15.18 ubuntu@vought:~$ sudo rmmod kvm_intel ubuntu@vought:~$ sudo modprobe kvm_intel ept=0 ubuntu@vought:~$ cat /sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/ept N ubuntu@vought:~$ virsh start --console l1 Domain l1 started Connected to domain l1 Escape character is ^] Under 4.15.0-66.75, I see full console output from the guest and reach a login prompt. Under 4.15.0-68.77, I see no output and the VM is unresponsive. I see nothing of use in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/l1.log. I see this on the following system: ubuntu@vought:~$ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 96 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-95 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 24 Socket(s): 2 NUMA node(s): 2 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 85 Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6252 CPU @ 2.10GHz Stepping: 6 CPU MHz: 1000.135 CPU max MHz: 3700.0000 CPU min MHz: 1000.0000 BogoMIPS: 4200.00 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 1024K L3 cache: 36608K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-23,48-71 NUMA node1 CPU(s): 24-47,72-95 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc art arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 sdbg fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm abm 3dnowprefetch cpuid_fault epb cat_l3 cdp_l3 invpcid_single ssbd mba ibrs ibpb stibp ibrs_enhanced tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm cqm mpx rdt_a avx512f avx512dq rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb intel_pt avx512cd avx512bw avx512vl xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local dtherm ida arat pln pts hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_pkg_req pku ospke avx512_vnni md_clear flush_l1d arch_capabilities To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1852047/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
