1393698 – Correctly set host bits for guests to go beyond 1TB

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Bug 1393698 - Correctly set host bits for guests to go beyond 1TB

Summary: Correctly set host bits for guests to go beyond 1TB

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	qemu-kvm-rhev
Sub Component:
Version:	7.4
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Priority:	high
Severity:	high
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	7.4
Assignee:	Dr. David Alan Gilbert
QA Contact:	Yumei Huang
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Blocks:	1392328 1395265 1401400
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2016-11-10 07:58 UTC by Miroslav Rezanina
Modified:	2017-08-02 03:35 UTC (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)
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Last Closed:	2017-08-01 23:39:45 UTC
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:2392	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: qemu-kvm-rhev security, bug fix, and enhancement update	2017-08-01 20:04:36 UTC

Description Miroslav Rezanina 2016-11-10 07:58:05 UTC

Upstream commit af45907a changed way physical address bits are handled. This means we have to replace our downstream patch a487079.

Comment 2 Dr. David Alan Gilbert 2017-02-06 18:41:08 UTC

We dont need to do anything for 7.4 because we've already picked up the 'Enable host-phys-bits on RHEL' patch (0e8ab1be) from RHEV-7.3, that should be enough.
See the setting of host-phys-bits in PC_RHEL_COMPAT.

QA: Please verify in same way as bz 1339196 comment 14,  also check big VMs (>128GB) work OK.

(Marking as ON-QA since it doesn't need any code doing but we still need it checking)

Comment 3 Yumei Huang 2017-02-07 07:24:09 UTC

Verify:
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.8.0-3.el7
kernel-3.10.0-558.el7.x86_64

Steps:
1. Boot guest on AMD host, and migrate to a file

# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -m 4G  -machine pc-i440fx-rhel7.2.0,accel=kvm,usb=off,vmport=off -cpu cpu64-rhel6,+rdtscp,+ht,+vme \

-smp 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1  -monitor stdio  \

-drive file=rhel73-64-virtio.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-blk0,format=qcow2,werror=stop,rerror=stop,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive-virtio-blk0,bootindex=0 \

-spice port=5930,disable-ticketing \

-vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432 -nodefaults


(qemu) migrate "exec:cat > /tmp/mig-test-file"


2. Copy the file to an Intel host, and boot guest from the file

#  /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -m 4G  -machine pc-i440fx-rhel7.2.0,accel=kvm,usb=off,vmport=off -cpu cpu64-rhel6,+rdtscp,+ht,+vme \

-smp 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1  -monitor stdio  \

-drive file=rhel73-64-virtio.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-blk0,format=qcow2,werror=stop,rerror=stop,cache=none -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=drive-virtio-blk0,bootindex=0 \

-spice port=5930,disable-ticketing \

-vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432 -nodefaults \

-incoming "exec:cat /tmp/mig-test-file"


Guest works well on Intel host.

Comment 4 Yumei Huang 2017-02-07 12:13:04 UTC

QE also test big vm with 200GB memory, and use dd to allocate memory in guest. Guest works well, and no error in dmesg.

Comment 5 Yumei Huang 2017-02-07 12:15:49 UTC

Moving to verified per comment 2 ~ 4.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 23:39:45 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-02 01:17:23 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-02 02:09:23 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-02 02:50:09 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-02 03:14:52 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-02 03:35:00 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2392

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