Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:02:04 +0200
From: Tobias Diedrich <ranma+kernel@tdiedrich.de>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
Subject: Re: kvm: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
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Chris Wright wrote:
> * Tobias Diedrich (ranma+kernel@tdiedrich.de) wrote:
> > PM: Creating hibernation image: 
> > PM: Need to copy 126181 pages
> > PM: Normal pages needed: 126181 + 1024 + 38, available pages: 397721
> > x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
> > svm_cpu_init: svm_data is NULL on 0
> 
> Yeah, this is broken.  What happens is:
> 
> suspend:
>   hardware_disable
>     svm_hardware_disable
>       kfree(svm_data)
>       per_cpu(svm_data) = NULL
> 
> resume:
>   hardware_enable
>     svm_hardware_enable
>       if(!svm_data) printk("svm_cpu_init: svm_data is NULL on 0")
> 
> at this point it is broken.
> 
> Same would happen on an SMP box by simply doing offline/online of a CPU.
> This is definitely busted, looking into a patch.

Any progress on this?

Thanks,

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