[ kvm-Bugs-1971512 ] failure to migrate guests with more than 4GB of RAM

2009-08-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1971512, was opened at 2008-05-24 14:45 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jiajun You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=893831aid=1971512group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

Re: [RFC] Nested VMX support - kernel

2009-08-21 Thread Qing He
Orit, First, thank you for this work, it's very interesting. I tried the patchset but met some problem. It's a kernel panic in L2 guest, and L1 L0 remains operable: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0104b00d IP: [c0105282] math_state_restore+0xe/0x2f

[ kvm-Bugs-2761920 ] 64-bit smp RHEL5.3 call trace after Live Migration

2009-08-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #2761920, was opened at 2009-04-14 06:10 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jiajun You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=893831aid=2761920group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

RE: Biweekly KVM Test report, kernel 7597f... qemu 1c45e...

2009-08-21 Thread Xu, Jiajun
On Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:09 PM Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/19/2009 05:14 AM, Xu, Jiajun wrote: I tried this with latest commit, sometimes linux guest can do migration with more than 4G memory. But sometimes I found guest will hang after migration and on host console it will print Unknown

[ kvm-Bugs-2841731 ] Guest migration fail on PAE host

2009-08-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #2841731, was opened at 2009-08-21 00:19 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by jiajun You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=893831aid=2841731group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the

Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: set QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN by default

2009-08-21 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Am Donnerstag 20 August 2009 22:56:16 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: Currently virtio-blk doesn't set any QUEUE_ORDERED_ flag by default, which means it does not allow filesystems to use barriers. But the typical use case for virtio-blk is to use a backed that uses synchronous I/O, and in that

[ kvm-Bugs-2351676 ] Guests hang periodically on Ubuntu-8.10

2009-08-21 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #2351676, was opened at 2008-11-26 19:59 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by z-image You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=893831aid=2351676group_id=180599 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment

Re: serial port again

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Tokarev
Is it just me with this issue? Anyone who has serial port working for anything more than serial console (that is, with control chars etc, not only text) ? Thanks! Michael Tokarev wrote at Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:09:57 +0400: Finally, I'm trying to use serial port in a kvm guest. And as in my

Re: trouble when ctrl/caps key swapped by X

2009-08-21 Thread fka...@googlemail.com
Avi Kivity: On 08/17/2009 05:27 PM, fka...@googlemail.com wrote: I have the ctrl/caps keys swapped by X in xorg.conf: Option XkbOptions ctrl:swapcaps The fact that this is not honoured by the guest (win2k) might be intended or acceptable. However, when switching from the guest

vbus design points: shm and shm-signals

2009-08-21 Thread Gregory Haskins
Gregory Haskins wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: We all love faster code and better management interfaces and tons of your prior patches got accepted by Avi. This time you didnt even _try_ to improve virtio. Im sorry, but you are mistaken:

[PATCH] Fix sysenter migration issue on AMD CPUs

2009-08-21 Thread Andre Przywara
To enable cross-vendor migration we use VMCB external variables to hold the full 64bit value of the SYSENTER MSRs, which get truncated to 32bit on AMD hardware. Since we didn't intercept these MSRs, these variables were only used in the emulation case, but were _always_ used for migration

Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server

2009-08-21 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 04:38:17PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 03:10:54PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 05:27:07PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Michael S.

Re: [PATCH] introduce kvm64 CPU

2009-08-21 Thread Jamie Lokier
Andre Przywara wrote: In addition to the TCG based qemu64 type let's introduce a kvm64 CPU type, which is the least common denominator of all KVM-capable x86-CPUs (based on Intel Pentium 4 Prescott). It can be used as a base type for migration. The idea is nice and the name is right, but the

Re: serial port again

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Tokarev
[Adding qemu-devel@ since kvm@ is not interested and since serial port seems to be qemu thing] Michael Tokarev wrote: Is it just me with this issue? Anyone who has serial port working for anything more than serial console (that is, with control chars etc, not only text) ? I just ran a quick

Re: [PATCH] introduce kvm64 CPU

2009-08-21 Thread Avi Kivity
On 08/21/2009 12:34 AM, Andre Przywara wrote: In addition to the TCG based qemu64 type let's introduce a kvm64 CPU type, which is the least common denominator of all KVM-capable x86-CPUs (based on Intel Pentium 4 Prescott). It can be used as a base type for migration. Typically users will

Re: [PATCH] introduce kvm64 CPU

2009-08-21 Thread Glauber Costa
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Avi Kivitya...@redhat.com wrote: On 08/21/2009 12:34 AM, Andre Przywara wrote: In addition to the TCG based qemu64 type let's introduce a kvm64 CPU type, which is the least common denominator of all KVM-capable x86-CPUs (based on Intel Pentium 4 Prescott). It

Re: [PATCH 0/2] eventfd: new EFD_STATE flag

2009-08-21 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 08/20/2009 07:44 PM, Davide Libenzi wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/20/2009 07:20 PM, Davide Libenzi wrote: I briefly looked at this while in vacation, although I did not reply hoping the horrible feeling about

Re: [PATCH] Move irq sharing information to irqchip level.

2009-08-21 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:35:47PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/13/2009 08:19 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: This removes assumptions that max GSIs is smaller than number of pins. Sharing is tracked on pin level not GSI level. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapovg...@redhat.com diff --git

[PATCH tracing/kprobes 1/4] x86: Fix x86 instruction decoder selftest to check only .text

2009-08-21 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Fix x86 instruction decoder selftest to check only .text because other sections (e.g. .notes) will have random bytes which don't need to be checked. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu mhira...@redhat.com Cc: Jim Keniston jkeni...@us.ibm.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com Cc: Ananth N

[PATCH tracing/kprobes 2/4] x86: Check awk features before generating inat-tables.c

2009-08-21 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Check some awk features which old mawk doesn't support. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu mhira...@redhat.com Cc: Jim Keniston jkeni...@us.ibm.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli ana...@in.ibm.com Cc: Avi Kivity a...@redhat.com Cc: Andi Kleen a...@linux.intel.com

[PATCH tracing/kprobes 3/4] tracing/kprobes: Fix format typo in trace_kprobes

2009-08-21 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Fix a format typo in kprobe-tracer. Currently, it shows 'tsize' in format; $ cat /debug/tracing/events/kprobes/event/format ... field: unsigned long ip;offset:16;tsize:8; field: int nargs; offset:24;tsize:4; ... This should be '\tsize'; $ cat

[PATCH tracing/kprobes 4/4] tracing/kprobes: Change trace_arg to probe_arg

2009-08-21 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Change trace_arg_string() and parse_trace_arg() to probe_arg_string() and parse_probe_arg(), since those are kprobe-tracer local functions. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu mhira...@redhat.com Cc: Jim Keniston jkeni...@us.ibm.com Cc: H. Peter Anvin h...@zytor.com Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli

Re: [PATCH] introduce kvm64 CPU

2009-08-21 Thread Andre Przywara
Glauber Costa wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Avi Kivitya...@redhat.com wrote: On 08/21/2009 12:34 AM, Andre Przywara wrote: In addition to the TCG based qemu64 type let's introduce a kvm64 CPU type, which is the least common denominator of all KVM-capable x86-CPUs (based on Intel

Re: [PATCH] introduce kvm64 CPU

2009-08-21 Thread Andre Przywara
Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/21/2009 12:34 AM, Andre Przywara wrote: In addition to the TCG based qemu64 type let's introduce a kvm64 CPU type, which is the least common denominator of all KVM-capable x86-CPUs (based on Intel Pentium 4 Prescott). It can be used as a base type for migration.

[PATCH] kvm-kmod vma_kernel_pagesize compatability

2009-08-21 Thread Zachary Amsden
Patch speaks for itself. commit b5cd58bc3e7bddf0a9735d5c13c36e2221a7f616 Author: Zachary Amsden zams...@redhat.com Date: Fri Aug 21 14:34:37 2009 -1000 Make vma_kernel_pagesize a kvm compat API; this fixes the build with new kernels synced to 2.6.31 compiling externally for older

Re: [PATCH] introduce kvm64 CPU

2009-08-21 Thread Jamie Lokier
Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/21/2009 12:34 AM, Andre Przywara wrote: In addition to the TCG based qemu64 type let's introduce a kvm64 CPU type, which is the least common denominator of all KVM-capable x86-CPUs (based on Intel Pentium 4 Prescott). It can be used as a base type for migration.

Re: [PATCH] introduce kvm64 CPU

2009-08-21 Thread Jamie Lokier
Andre Przywara wrote: If you happen to stuck with 32bit (pity you!) then I agree that a kvm32 would be nice to have. Will think about it... I know that 32-bit is a bit slower for some things due to register pressure (but it's a bit faster for some things due to less memory needed for

Re: Very high memory usage with KVM

2009-08-21 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Monday, 10 August 2009 18:15:17 +0200, Bernhard Held wrote: Hi Daniel! Hi, Bernhard! I've set in the kernel config: CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y And what happened? Are you sure you recompiled and booted the new kernel with CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y? [...] Here is what I

Re: [PATCH 4/5] kvmppc: Translate eaddr for fsl_booke mmu

2009-08-21 Thread Alexander Graf
Am 20.08.2009 um 12:21 schrieb Liu Yu-B13201 yu@freescale.com: -Original Message- From: Hollis Blanchard [mailto:holl...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 6:51 AM To: Liu Yu-B13201 Cc: qemu-de...@nongnu.org; kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org; jan.kis...@siemens.com;