Bug 654550 - Kernel panic when rhel3.9 64bit guest is booting up with 4G mem on AMD host.
Summary: Kernel panic when rhel3.9 64bit guest is booting up with 4G mem on AMD host.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 523628
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kvm
Version: 5.6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Gleb Natapov
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 638489
Blocks: Rhel5KvmTier2
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-18 07:47 UTC by Golita Yue
Modified: 2013-12-09 00:51 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 638489
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-12-15 10:15:18 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
boot-log_guest (7.56 KB, text/plain)
2010-11-18 08:39 UTC, Golita Yue 		no flags Details
View All

Comment 1 Golita Yue 2010-11-18 08:38:31 UTC 
Description of problem:
Install a rhel3u9 64bit guest on AMD host, when the guest is booting up, the
following is reported:
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
......
Kernel panic: pci_map_single: high address but no IOMMU.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kvm-83-207.el5
kernel-2.6.18-231.el5

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a RHEL3U9 x86_64 guest on AMD host 
2. After installation is finished, the guest will reboot, check the boot up
process.

Actual results:
Kernel panic: pci_map_single: high address but no IOMMU.
Attached the boot-log-guest 

cmd:
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -m 4G -smp 1 -name r3.9-64-1 -uuid `uuidgen` -serial stdio -boot c -drive file=/mnt/r3.9-64.raw,boot=on,format=raw,cache=none,if=ide,werror=stop -net nic,macaddr=00:52:00:23:b5:50,model=rtl8139,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -no-hpet -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -usbdevice tablet -rtc-td-hack -startdate now -cpu qemu64 -M rhel5.6.0 -notify all -vnc :1

Expected results:
The guest is booted up smoothly.

Additional info:
when vmem=2G  PASS
Comment 2 Golita Yue 2010-11-18 08:39:29 UTC 
Created attachment 461240 [details]
boot-log_guest
Comment 3 Gleb Natapov 2010-12-15 10:15:18 UTC 
Please search bugzilla for similar issues before opening new bugs.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 523628 ***
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.