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Bug 630975 - KVM guest limited to 40bit of physical address space
Summary: KVM guest limited to 40bit of physical address space
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: seabios
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: beta
: 6.1
Assignee: Andrea Arcangeli
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 580953 743391 748554
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-09-07 14:16 UTC by Andrea Arcangeli
Modified: 2013-01-09 23:05 UTC (History)
16 users (show)

Fixed In Version: seabios-0.6.1.2-7.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 743391 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-12-06 17:00:51 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
show the host physical address bits in KVM guest (1.39 KB, patch)
2010-09-07 14:20 UTC, Andrea Arcangeli 		no flags Details | Diff
seabios patch (1.56 KB, patch)
2010-09-07 15:59 UTC, Andrea Arcangeli 		no flags Details | Diff
seabios patch (1.56 KB, patch)
2010-09-07 16:01 UTC, Andrea Arcangeli 		no flags Details | Diff
kvm seabios patch (706 bytes, patch)
2010-09-07 16:02 UTC, Andrea Arcangeli 		no flags Details | Diff
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Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:1680 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE seabios bug fix update 2011-12-06 00:50:06 UTC

Description Andrea Arcangeli 2010-09-07 14:16:49 UTC 
Description of problem: It's unclear what happens by booting RHEL6 as guest with more than 1TB of RAM (RHEL5 doesn't work as guest but that's expected)

How reproducible: boot a RHEL6 guest with > 1T of RAM

This requires RHEL6 on guest and host and that combination hasn't been tested so far.

So there's a slight chance that it already works but I'm afraid it's a little risky until we fix KVM to advertise more than 40bits of physical address space in cpuid 0x80000008 if host supports that.
Comment 1 Andrea Arcangeli 2010-09-07 14:20:30 UTC 
Created attachment 443516 [details]
show the host physical address bits in KVM guest
Comment 3 John Shakshober 2010-09-07 14:44:15 UTC 
Some results on an 8-socket Intel EXT machine (128-way), with 2TB physical memory;

Host:

[root@hp-dl980g7-01 ~]# uname -a
Linux hp-dl980g7-01.lab.bos.redhat.com 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 1 01:33:01 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Guest:
[root@hp-dl980g7-01 kvm]# cat rhel6kvm_r6.sh

WORKS at 1TB 
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -m 1028576 -smp 64 -name rhel6 -uuid 6b7fe2a1-0073-49f5-b28c-cf17f8312ac8 -monitor pty -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -boot c -drive file=/shak/kvm/rhel6.img,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:56,vlan=0,model=virtio -net tap,script=/etc/qemu-ifup0,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 &

Breaks at > 1T
-m 1.1 TB
-m 1.4 TB
-m 1.8 TB
[root@hp-dl980g7-01 kvm]# cat rhel6kvm_r6.sh 
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -m 1128576 -smp 64 -name rhel6 -uuid 6b7fe2a1-0073-49f5-b28c-cf17f8312ac8 -monitor pty -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -boot c -drive file=/shak/kvm/rhel6.img,if=ide,index=0,boot=on -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:56,vlan=0,model=virtio -net tap,script=/etc/qemu-ifup0,vlan=0,ifname=vnet0 -usb -vnc 127.0.0.1:0 &


Can ssh too - dhcp47-223.lab.bos.redhat.com

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 -
000000000009f400 (usable)
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 -
00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 -
0000000000100000 (reserved)
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 -
00000000dfffa000 (usable)
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000dfffa000 -
00000000e0000000 (reserved)
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fffbc000 -
0000000100000000 (reserved)
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 -
000000be8e000000 (usable)
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: DMI 2.4 present.
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: last_pfn = 0xbe8e000 max_arch_pfn =
0x400000000
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: PAT not supported by CPU.
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: last_pfn = 0xdfffa max_arch_pfn =
0x400000000
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: init_memory_mapping:
0000000000000000-00000000dfffa000
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: init_memory_mapping:
0000000100000000-000000be8e000000
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: 373aa000 - 37fef6fb
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDP 00000000000f7bf0 00014 (v00
BOCHS )
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDT 00000000dfffc4b0 00030 (v01
BOCHS  BXPCRSDT 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: ACPI: FACP 00000000dfffe9e0 00074 (v01
BOCHS  BXPCFACP 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: ACPI: DSDT 00000000dfffcb30 01E4B (v01
BXPC   BXDSDT 00000001 INTL 20090123)
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: ACPI: FACS 00000000dfffe980 00040
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: ACPI: SSDT 00000000dfffc7c0 0036B (v01
BOCHS  BXPCSSDT 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: ACPI: APIC 00000000dfffc4e0 0026A (v01
BOCHS  BXPCAPIC 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: No NUMA configuration found
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: Faking a node at
0000000000000000-000000be8e000000
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: Bootmem setup node 0
0000000000000000-000000be8e000000
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel:  NODE_DATA [000000000000c000 -
000000000003ffff]
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel:  bootmap [0000000001c2c000 -
00000000033fdbff] pages 17d2
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: (8 early reservations) ==> bootmem
[0000000000 - be8e000000]
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel:  #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000]   BIOS
data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000]
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel:  #1 [0000006000 - 0000008000]
TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000008000]
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel:  #2 [0001000000 - 0001c2a630]    TEXT
DATA BSS ==> [0001000000 - 0001c2a630]
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel:  #3 [00373aa000 - 0037fef6fb]
RAMDISK ==> [00373aa000 - 0037fef6fb]
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel:  #4 [000009f400 - 0000100000]    BIOS
reserved ==> [000009f400 - 0000100000]
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel:  #5 [0001c2b000 - 0001c2b079]
BRK ==> [0001c2b000 - 0001c2b079]
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel:  #6 [0000008000 - 000000c000]
PGTABLE ==> [0000008000 - 000000c000]
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel:  #7 [0000100000 - 00003f8000]
PGTABLE ==> [0000100000 - 00003f8000]
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: found SMP MP-table at
[ffff8800000f7c40] f7c40
Sep  7 09:57:54 localhost kernel: Reserving 4096MB of memory at 4096MB
for crashkernel (System RAM: 780512MB)
Comment 4 Andrea Arcangeli 2010-09-07 15:41:25 UTC 
I found the bug is in seabios:

 u64 high = ((inb_cmos(CMOS_MEM_HIGHMEM_LOW) << 16)
                   | ((u32)inb_cmos(CMOS_MEM_HIGHMEM_MID) << 24)
                   | ((u64)inb_cmos(CMOS_MEM_HIGHMEM_HIGH) << 32));
        RamSizeOver4G = high;

And corresponding bug in qemu-kvm that sends the info to seabios:

if (above_4g_mem_size) {
   rtc_set_memory(s, 0x5b, (unsigned int)above_4g_mem_size >> 16);
   rtc_set_memory(s, 0x5c, (unsigned int)above_4g_mem_size >> 24);
   rtc_set_memory(s, 0x5d, (uint64_t)above_4g_mem_size >> 32);
}

We need to add the 48-40 bits range too, so adding a >>40 line to the above two places, right now seabios is limited to 40bits (1T). That in addition of the 0x80000008 patch I attached already.
Comment 5 Andrea Arcangeli 2010-09-07 15:59:34 UTC 
Created attachment 443549 [details]
seabios patch
Comment 6 Andrea Arcangeli 2010-09-07 16:01:19 UTC 
Created attachment 443551 [details]
seabios patch
Comment 7 Andrea Arcangeli 2010-09-07 16:02:15 UTC 
Created attachment 443552 [details]
kvm seabios patch
Comment 8 Andrea Arcangeli 2010-09-07 16:08:42 UTC 
With all 3 patches applied my simulation seems to be working better. I can't succeed the booting (so I can't be sure this is enough) because 16G of ram aren't enough (despite of 16G in swap too) but definitely it's using more than the previous 256G of ram.

As you can see from attachment 443516 [details], the comment talks about some 42bit limit in exec.c . Nobody could have ever booted anything more than 1TB because of the siabios limit anyway, so that limit surely has never been exercised. But I don't see it, so maybe >42bits already works just fine. I'm optimistic that at least up to 4TB should work now (42bits) but so the next test is to see if >4TB works too.
Comment 17 Andrea Arcangeli 2011-09-30 17:37:28 UTC 
Two patches posted to rhvirt-patches with Message-ID: <20110930173155.GO7768> and Message-ID: <20110930173650.GP7768>.
Comment 24 FuXiangChun 2011-10-31 08:30:35 UTC 
reproduce on qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.193.el6.x86_64 and seabios-0.6.1.2-5.el6.x86_64 in 4T host
  
1. boot guest with >1T memory, guest will identify <1T memory.   

1.1. #/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M rhel6.2.0 -enable-kvm -m 1600G 

1.2 in guest,the memory is just 567G not 1.6T
#free -g
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           567          6        561          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:          6        561
Swap:            3          0          3

2. boot guest with =1T memory, guest will identify 1T memory

2.1#/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -M rhel6.2.0 -enable-kvm -m 1024G
2.1 in guest,the memory is 1T
# free -g
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1009         10        999          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:          9        999
Swap:            3          0          3

 

Tested with qemu-206 using rhel6.2-snap2 guest,the host RAM is 4T,I tested 2 conditions
1.boot guest with host free memory,guest can be booted successfully in 1-2 mins with RAM=host free memory(3998G)
#qemu-kvm -m  -m 3998G  .....
#in guest
# free -g
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3942         37       3905          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:         37       3905
Swap:            3          0          3

2.boot guest with >= 4t,qemu-kvm will be aborted with dump
(gdb) bt
#0  0x0000003eea032885 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x0000003eea034065 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2  0x0000000000484710 in qemu_memalign (alignment=2097152, size=4399120252928) at osdep.c:112
#3  0x00000000004ecc52 in qemu_ram_alloc_from_ptr (dev=<value optimized out>, name=<value optimized out>, size=4399120252928, host=<value optimized out>)
    at /usr/src/debug/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2/exec.c:2730
#4  0x0000000000452863 in pc_init1 (ram_size=3758096384, boot_device=0x7fffffffdfc0 "cad", kernel_filename=0x0, kernel_cmdline=0x642ee2 "", initrd_filename=0x0, 
    cpu_model=0x631d85 "cpu64-rhel6", pci_enabled=1) at /usr/src/debug/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2/hw/pc.c:1115
#5  0x000000000040d4ae in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>, envp=<value optimized out>) at /usr/src/debug/qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2/vl.c:6254

2.1 swap size in host
 Swap:  2031608k total
Comment 25 juzhang 2011-10-31 08:41:27 UTC 
Hi,Andrea

   According to comment24,would you please answer me two questions?
   1.if boot guest with >= 4t,qemu-kvm will be aborted with dump,it is normal?as I knew,kvm quest support over-commit.for this case,the host RAM is 4T,if we boot guest is >=4T,the qemu-kvm will be aborted with dump.would you please elaborate it?
   2.if question problem is normal,according to our results,can we set this issue as verified?

   thanks
Comment 26 juzhang 2011-10-31 08:50:12 UTC 
>    2.if question problem is normal,according to our results,can we set this
> issue as verified?
A little update.
2 if question 1 problem is normal,according to our results,can we set this
issue as verified?
Comment 27 juzhang 2011-11-03 03:49:07 UTC 
According to comment24,I'm going to set this issue as verified.if you think comment25 question1 is a problem.please let us know.we will open new issue.
Comment 29 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 17:00:51 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.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1680.html
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