Re: freeze host when injecting NMIs in the guest, at least in 4.4-rc4+

2015-12-10 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 10/12/2015 17:44, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Yap, > > this is clearly a qemu/kvm issue. Lemme remove ext4 folks from CC. So > here's what happens: > > I boot a kvm guest, connect to its monitor (qemu is started with > "-monitor pty") and on the monitor I issue a couple of times the "nmi" >

Re: freeze host when injecting NMIs in the guest, at least in 4.4-rc4+

2015-12-10 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 10/12/2015 17:53, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Just did, there it splats even when booting the guest, without even > injecting NMIs: > > [ 113.233992] === > [ 113.238192] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] > [ 113.242393] 4.4.0-rc4+ #1 Not tainted > [ 113.246056]

Re: freeze host when injecting NMIs in the guest, at least in 4.4-rc4+

2015-12-10 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 05:49:10PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Can you try it on Intel? Just did, there it splats even when booting the guest, without even injecting NMIs: [ 113.233992] === [ 113.238192] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] [ 113.242393] 4.4.0-rc4+ #1

Re: freeze host when injecting NMIs in the guest, at least in 4.4-rc4+

2015-12-10 Thread Borislav Petkov
Yap, this is clearly a qemu/kvm issue. Lemme remove ext4 folks from CC. So here's what happens: I boot a kvm guest, connect to its monitor (qemu is started with "-monitor pty") and on the monitor I issue a couple of times the "nmi" command. It doesn't explode immediately but it happens pretty