Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:27:07AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> Waba wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:42:01AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >>> >>> >>>> ok. please keep the patch applied, and an addition: >>>> >>>> - change '#undef AUDIT' to '#define AUDIT' in mmu.c >>>> - in the same file, change 'static int dbg = 1;' to 'static int dbg = 0;' >>>> - 'echo 9 > /proc/sysrq-trigger' >>>> >>>> and run again. Note that kvm will be very slow with this. Watch dmesg >>>> for errors from kvm. >>>> >>>> >>> When you say 'very slow', you mean it :) I couldn't reproduce the bug in >>> the usual fashion because the involved processes timed out and were >>> killed by the service manager. >>> >>> However, simply invoking "svccfg" at the prompt seems to bring in Java or >>> whatever heavy stuff is causing our problem, and I got a nice SIGILL >>> this way. >>> >>> Sadly, nothing interesting appeared in the log: >>> >>> [ 8544.402301] Loglevel set to 9 >>> [ 8548.697286] cr0_wp: 1 (before) >>> [ 9868.532303] kvm: emulating exchange as write >>> [16785.771040] SysRq : Changing Loglevel >>> [16785.771049] Loglevel set to 0 >>> >>> >>> Please tell me if there is anything else I can try out. >>> >>> >> Can you try to isolate the process which fails? >> >> e.g. install with qemu, start in kvm in single user mode, and use truss >> or something similar. >> > > When I tried it I got a the SIGILL ever I invoked a new program. The > first SIGILL is in the starting process which is killed then. Afterwards > I get a shell. Every simple command there (like ls for example) caused a > SIGILL then. > >
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