Bug 525743 - Regression between 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 causing qemu.git KVM support to break
Summary: Regression between 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 causing qemu.git KVM support to break
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Juan Quintela
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F11VirtTarget
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-09-25 14:15 UTC by Juan Quintela
Modified: 2009-10-30 17:58 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 2.6.30.9-90.fc11
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Last Closed: 2009-10-30 17:58:54 UTC
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Description Juan Quintela 2009-09-25 14:15:42 UTC
Description of problem:

Upstream qemu git worked with 2.6.29.x Fedora kernel.  With new 2.6.30.5-43.fc11
qemu --enable-kvm -loadvm don't work anymore.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.6.30.5-43.fc11

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot a guest with qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm .... rest args...
2. in the qemu monitor type: savevm foo
3. Now try to load the snapshot: qemu-system-x86 --enable-kvm -loadvm foo ... rest arguments
  
Actual results:

guest machine loads correctly, but just after load it resets the guest and it restarts.

Expected results:

Execution continues from saved state

Additional info:

upstream qemu.git without --enable-kvm still works (it don't use kvm)
qemu-kvm from F11 updates work
upsntream qemu-kvm.git also work

Comment 1 Juan Quintela 2009-09-25 14:16:14 UTC
I am trying to bisect between 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 what commit caused the breakage

Comment 2 Juan Quintela 2009-09-26 01:28:00 UTC
Reverting this commit from upstream fixes the issue.  Commit was already reverted
in kvm upstream git.


    Revert "KVM: x86: check for cr3 validity in ioctl_set_sregs"
    
    This reverts commit d42a5ebb5ecc66aa692a1141c7ba284ec612e9cc.

Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2009-09-27 10:06:59 UTC
Interesting... 2.6.30.6 got the more robust check in mmu_alloc_roots (commit 8986ecc0ef58c96eec48d8502c048f3ab67fd8e2) mentioned in the revert patch but did not get that revert (commit dc7e795e3dd2a763e5ceaa1615f307e808cf3932).

Comment 4 Chuck Ebbert 2009-09-27 10:25:01 UTC
This patch didn't get into 2.6.31.1 either, so is needed for f-12 as well.

Comment 5 Chuck Ebbert 2009-09-28 16:59:06 UTC
Fixed in  2.6.30.8-69

Comment 6 Marcelo Tosatti 2009-10-01 16:10:07 UTC
Chuck,

Revert patch already in -stable queue for .30/.31.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2009-10-18 01:57:02 UTC
kernel-2.6.30.9-90.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.30.9-90.fc11

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2009-10-27 06:47:00 UTC
kernel-2.6.30.9-90.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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