Hi,

Starting with kvm-76 (and including kvm-79), Hurd does not boot anymore
under KVM. The ext2fs translator issues a strange error message:

| Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs.static[device:hd0s3] execext2fs.static: 
/build/bui
| ldd/hurd-20080607/build-tree/hurd/ext2fs/dir.c:494: dirscanblock: Assertion 
`dp-
| >dn->dirents[idx] == -1 || dp->dn->dirents[idx] == nentries' failed.          
 -
| >dn->dirents[idx] == -1 || dp->dn->dirents[idx] == nentries' failed.

Bisecting the problem, I have found that it comes from this patch:

| 641fb03992b20aa640781a245f6b7136f0b845e4 is first bad commit
| commit 641fb03992b20aa640781a245f6b7136f0b845e4
| Author: Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Date:   Tue Sep 23 13:18:39 2008 -0300
| 
|     KVM: MMU: out of sync shadow core v2
| 
|     Allow guest pagetables to go out of sync.
| 
|     Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|     Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

The problem can be workarounded loading the kvm module with 
oos_shadow=0.

The easiest way to reproduce the problem is to download a ready to use
Hurd image [1]. The error message from the ext2fs translator is not
exactly the same, but it still fails.

Aurelien

[1] 
http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/debian-hurd-k16-qemu.img.tar.gz

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