Bug 732266

Summary: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sergei LITVINENKO <sergei.litvinenko>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, sergei.litvinenko
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Description Sergei LITVINENKO 2011-08-21 11:07:07 UTC
Created attachment 519175 [details]
f16 guest dmesg log.

Description of problem:
A lot of error on console. System do not answer...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.0.1-3.fc16.i686.PAE
glibc-common-2.14.90-4.i686
glibc-2.14.90-4.i686
yum-3.4.3-4.fc16.noarch

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start f16 guest on KVM with '-smp 2' parameter
2. login into guest
3. run `yum clean all ; yum update`
  
Actual results:
A lot of error on console, system is busy and do not answer.

Expected results:
system work as expected


Additional info:

F16 is updated.

F16 is started by:

qemu-kvm -localtime -m 2047 -name Fedora-16 vmware -smp 2          \
         -drive file=fedor16-hd0.img,if=virtio,boot=on             \
         -drive file=fedor16-hd1.img,if=virtio,boot=off            \
         -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:16,model=virtio -net tap  \
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host is : Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) 
kernel  : 2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686.PAE
kvm is  : qemu-system-x86-0.13.0-1.fc14.i686
Hardware: CPU - E6850, RAM - 6Go

Comment 1 Sergei LITVINENKO 2011-08-21 11:11:41 UTC
in case of '-smp 1' guest work as expected.

Source of script to start guest:

[sergeil@homedesk QEMU]$ cat run-fedor16.sh 
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#! /bin/bash

export LC_ALL=C
export LANG=C

export VGA="-vga vmware"
export NET=virtio


qemu-kvm -localtime -m 2047 -name Fedora-16 $VGA -smp 2                 \
         -drive file=fedor16-hd0.img,if=virtio,boot=on                  \
         -drive file=fedor16-hd1.img,if=virtio,boot=off                 \
         -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:16,model=$NET -net tap

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Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2012-02-28 20:50:58 UTC
There are some known issues with KVM guests and soft lockups.  Work is on-going upstream to make the guest-host interaction better so the guest doesn't hit this.

For now, you can boot with nosoftlockup on the kernel command line.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794478#c4

Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2012-02-28 20:51:52 UTC
Also, given the host you reported against is F14 those fixes aren't going to make it to you at all.  I'm going to duplicate your bug to 794478, as only a future release will wind up fixing this issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 794478 ***