Re: Intermittent guest kernel crashes with v4.5-rc6.

2016-04-18 Thread Marc Zyngier
On 18/04/16 16:56, Christopher Covington wrote: >>> OK. Please keep me posted about your findings. Also maybe involving some >>> HW people ouwld be a good idea (running something in an emulator, for >>> example...). > > This has been confirmed to be a hardware defect with a firmware workaround.

Re: Intermittent guest kernel crashes with v4.5-rc6.

2016-04-18 Thread Christopher Covington
On 03/07/2016 10:36 PM, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > On 03/03/2016 08:38 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> On 03/03/16 14:26, Shanker Donthineni wrote: >>> On 03/03/2016 08:03 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: On 03/03/16 13:25, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > On 03/02/2016 11:35 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>

Re: Intermittent guest kernel crashes with v4.5-rc6.

2016-03-03 Thread Marc Zyngier
On 03/03/16 14:26, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > > > On 03/03/2016 08:03 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> On 03/03/16 13:25, Shanker Donthineni wrote: >>> >>> On 03/02/2016 11:35 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: On 02/03/16 15:48, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > We haven't started running heavy

Re: Intermittent guest kernel crashes with v4.5-rc6.

2016-03-03 Thread Shanker Donthineni
On 03/03/2016 08:03 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 03/03/16 13:25, Shanker Donthineni wrote: >> >> On 03/02/2016 11:35 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>> On 02/03/16 15:48, Shanker Donthineni wrote: >>> We haven't started running heavy workloads in VMs. So far we have noticed this random nature

Re: Intermittent guest kernel crashes with v4.5-rc6.

2016-03-03 Thread Marc Zyngier
On 03/03/16 13:25, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > > > On 03/02/2016 11:35 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> On 02/03/16 15:48, Shanker Donthineni wrote: >> >>> We haven't started running heavy workloads in VMs. So far we >>> have noticed this random nature behavior only during guest >>> kernel boot (at

Re: Intermittent guest kernel crashes with v4.5-rc6.

2016-03-02 Thread Marc Zyngier
On 02/03/16 15:48, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > We haven't started running heavy workloads in VMs. So far we > have noticed this random nature behavior only during guest > kernel boot (at EL1). > > We didn't see this problem on 4.3 kernel. Do you think it is > related to TLB conflicts? I

Re: Intermittent guest kernel crashes with v4.5-rc6.

2016-03-02 Thread Shanker Donthineni
On 03/02/2016 09:09 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 02/03/16 14:59, Shanker Donthineni wrote: >> Hi Marc, >> >> Thanks for your quick reply. >> >> On 03/02/2016 08:16 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>> On 02/03/16 13:56, Shanker Donthineni wrote: For some reason v4.5-rc6 kernel is not stable for

Re: Intermittent guest kernel crashes with v4.5-rc6.

2016-03-02 Thread Marc Zyngier
On 02/03/16 14:59, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > Hi Marc, > > Thanks for your quick reply. > > On 03/02/2016 08:16 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> On 02/03/16 13:56, Shanker Donthineni wrote: >>> For some reason v4.5-rc6 kernel is not stable for guest machines on >>> Qualcomm server platforms. >>> We

Re: Intermittent guest kernel crashes with v4.5-rc6.

2016-03-02 Thread Shanker Donthineni
Hi Marc, Thanks for your quick reply. On 03/02/2016 08:16 AM, Marc Zyngier wrote: On 02/03/16 13:56, Shanker Donthineni wrote: For some reason v4.5-rc6 kernel is not stable for guest machines on Qualcomm server platforms. We are getting IABT translation faults while booting the guest kernel.

Re: Intermittent guest kernel crashes with v4.5-rc6.

2016-03-02 Thread Marc Zyngier
On 02/03/16 13:56, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > > For some reason v4.5-rc6 kernel is not stable for guest machines on > Qualcomm server platforms. > We are getting IABT translation faults while booting the guest kernel. > The problem disappears with > the following code snippet (insert "dsb ish"

Re: Intermittent guest kernel crashes with v4.5-rc6.

2016-03-02 Thread Marc Zyngier
On 02/03/16 13:56, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > > For some reason v4.5-rc6 kernel is not stable for guest machines on > Qualcomm server platforms. > We are getting IABT translation faults while booting the guest kernel. > The problem disappears with > the following code snippet (insert "dsb ish"

Intermittent guest kernel crashes with v4.5-rc6.

2016-03-02 Thread Shanker Donthineni
For some reason v4.5-rc6 kernel is not stable for guest machines on Qualcomm server platforms. We are getting IABT translation faults while booting the guest kernel. The problem disappears with the following code snippet (insert "dsb ish" instruction just before switching to EL1 guest). I am