On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 13:12 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > Call Trace:                     
> >  [<c0146d5b>] kmem_cache_create+0x15e/0x410
> > Code: c3 57 56 53 89 c6 9c 5f fa 8b 08 83 39 00 74 12 c7 41 0c 01 00 00
> > 00 8b 01
> >  48 89 01 8b 5c 81 10 eb 07 e8 a5 fb ff ff 89 c3 57 9d <0f> 0d 0b 90 85
> > db 74 1b
> >  8b 56 10 31 c0 89 d1 c1 e9 02 89 df f3
> > EIP: [<c01467be>] kmem_cache_zalloc+0x2a/0x53 SS:ESP 0068:c030ff80
> >  <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> >   
> 0f 0d 0b                prefetchw (%ebx)
> 
> This is an AMD 3Dnow! instruction, which is not supported on Intel 
> processors.  I guess the 3Dnow! cpuid bit leaked in via the qemu merge.
> 
> I guess two fixes are needed:
> - remove the 3Dnow! bit
> - add emulation for prefetchw (easy, as it doesn't need to do anything) 
> to support live migration from AMD to Intel

This problem still occours with kvm-68. Which CPUs will be affected by
this (is it only the Core Duo)?
I'm currently delaying the upload of a new kvm package to debian because
of this.

Thanks,
Jan


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