From: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
To: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc1 A few issues and a stall
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:22:06 -0400
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On Sunday 12 April 2009 22:50:31 Lin Ming wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 10:05 +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 23:24 +0800, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I got tired of building out of tree DRM drivers so decided to try 2.6.30-rc1.  For simple tasks
> > > it works fine, for slightly more complex ones it is not quite as good...
> > > 
> > > Here is an example.  I normally start a kvm session with the commands below:
> > > 
> > > ed@grover ~/vm $ sudo modprobe tun
> > > ed@grover ~/vm $ sudo brctl addbr br0
> > > ed@grover ~/vm $ sudo ifconfig br0 192.168.100.254 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
> > > ed@grover ~/vm $ sudo tunctl -b -u ed -t qtap0
> > > qtap0
> > > ed@grover ~/vm $ sudo brctl addif br0 qtap0
> > > ed@grover ~/vm $ sudo ifconfig qtap0 up 0.0.0.0 promisc
> > > ed@grover ~/vm $ sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
> > > iptables v1.4.2: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?)
> > > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.
> > > 
> > > Issue 1 - I need to manually modprobe be get iptables to work.  This exact procedure worked in 2.6.29.
> > > 
> > > ed@grover ~/vm $ sudo modprobe nf_nat
> > > ed@grover ~/vm $ sudo modprobe ipt_MASQUERADE
> > > ed@grover ~/vm $ sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
> > > 
> > > Once the above networking stuff is setup I start kvm with the command below
> > > 
> > > QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=alsa kvm -m 1024 -cdrom /mnt/sdc4/divx/archlinux-2009.02-ftp-i686.iso -boot c -smp 3 -usb -usbdevice tablet -vga std -drive file=arch.img -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:23 -net tap,ifname=qtap0,script=no -soundhw all -mem-path /hugepages
> > > 
> > > which works and the kvm session boots just fine.  
> > > 
> > > Issue 2.  When I attempt to ping outside the kvm session the pc (not just the kvm session) hangs.
> > > Its impossible to kill the kvm session and there are numerious info messages from RCU (tree RCU enabled)
> > > about stalls.  
> > > 
> > > Issue 3.  ACPI is having fun during startup.  This does not seem to cause problems later but is 
> > > noisy and probably should be fixed before .30's release.
> > > 
> > this is a duplicate of bug
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13036
> > please try the patch in comment #6 there and see if it helps.
> 
> please also have a try the patch in comment #10 (don't apply the patch
> in comment #6).

The patch from   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13036 in comment 10 cleans up the console 
acpi messages nicely.

<ACK> Ed  Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>

Except for the following entry which, possibily, is valid:

[    0.341115] ACPI Warning (tbutils-0246): Incorrect checksum in table [OEMB] - E8, should be DF [20090320]

Thanks,
Ed
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