Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756045Ab0GGNxU (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:53:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53596 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755794Ab0GGNxS (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 09:53:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:51:40 -0300 From: Glauber Costa To: Peter Palfrader , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Zachary Amsden , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Avi Kivity , Marcelo Tosatti Subject: Re: [patch 134/149] x86, paravirt: Add a global synchronization point for pvclock Message-ID: <20100707135140.GI2707@mothafucka.localdomain> References: <20100701175144.GA2116@kroah.com> <20100701173218.125822294@clark.site> <20100707124731.GJ15122@anguilla.noreply.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100707124731.GJ15122@anguilla.noreply.org> X-ChuckNorris: True User-Agent: Jack Bauer Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1154 Lines: 27 On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 02:47:31PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > Hey, > > Greg KH schrieb am Donnerstag, dem 01. Juli 2010: > > > 2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > 2.6.32.16 fails to boot on my KVM domains using qemu-kvm 0.11.1. > > Bisecting between 2.6.32.14 which worked and .16 turned up this commit > as the first culprit[0]. > > The host is still running 2.6.32.14 and has 8 cores on 2 CPUs. The > single-cpu KVM domain hangs just after printing 'Write protecting the > kernel read-only data: 9492k'[1]. On a successful boot this line would > usually be followed by 'INIT: version 2.86 booting'. > > A 2.6.32.16 with this patch reverted boots fine. > > If there's any info you need please just ask. if you boot with another clocksource, and then switch to kvmclock with the machine already running, do you see anything strange or suspicious? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/