Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1661386] Re: Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed

[Matwey V. Kornilov]

2017-02-06 21:05 GMT+03:00 Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>:
>>> So you didn't mention this was running inside VMWare; it looks to me as if 
>>> that's rejecting the PMU MSR accesses.
>>> For reference which version of VMWare are you using?
>
>>ESXi 6.0.0 Build 2494585
>
>>I also find that enabling perf counters in VMWare configuration also
> helps.
>
> OK, so that suggests the problem is that with PMU disabled in VMWare
> config, it's not giving the right info to the guest to know it's
> disabled.

How should it provide info? Can we check it?

>
>>But why did it just work before 48e1a45c3166 with perf counters
> disabled?
>
> Before that bug it ignored the failure to write/read the PMU MSRs - but
> also lost all the MSRs after the PMU access and we'd found that if we
> ever had that happen we'd get lots of weird bugs related to the other
> MSRs.
>
>>>
>>> My colleague suggested that '-cpu host,pmu=off'  might work instead of
>>> having to hack around with the source.
>
>> Indeed, this also helps.
>
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> Title:
>   Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed
>
> Status in QEMU:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   Hello,
>
>
>   I see the following when try to run qemu from master as the following:
>
>   # ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 --version
>   QEMU emulator version 2.8.50 (v2.8.0-1006-g4e9f524)
>   Copyright (c) 2003-2016 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
>   # ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -nodefaults
>   -no-reboot -nographic -cpu host -vga none  -kernel .build.kernel.kvm
>   -initrd .build.initrd.kvm -append 'panic=1 no-kvmclock console=ttyS0
>   loglevel=7' -m 1024 -serial stdio
>   qemu-system-x86_64: /home/matwey/lab/qemu/target/i386/kvm.c:1849:
>   kvm_put_msrs: Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed.
>
>   First broken commit has been bisected:
>
>   commit 48e1a45c3166d659f781171a47dabf4a187ed7a5
>   Author: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
>   Date:   Wed Mar 30 22:55:29 2016 +0200
>
>       target-i386: assert that KVM_GET/SET_MSRS can set all requested MSRs
>
>       This would have caught the bug in the previous patch.
>
>       Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
>
>   My cpuinfo is the following:
>
>   processor       : 0
>   vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>   cpu family      : 6
>   model           : 44
>   model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5675  @ 3.07GHz
>   stepping        : 2
>   microcode       : 0x14
>   cpu MHz         : 3066.775
>   cache size      : 12288 KB
>   physical id     : 0
>   siblings        : 2
>   core id         : 0
>   cpu cores       : 2
>   apicid          : 0
>   initial apicid  : 0
>   fpu             : yes
>   fpu_exception   : yes
>   cpuid level     : 11
>   wp              : yes
>   flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
> cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx rdtscp lm 
> constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc 
> aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes hypervisor 
> lahf_lm ida arat epb dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi ept vpid
>   bugs            :
>   bogomips        : 6133.55
>   clflush size    : 64
>   cache_alignment : 64
>   address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
>   power management:
>
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With best regards,
Matwey V. Kornilov
http://blog.matwey.name
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Title:
  Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Hello,

  
  I see the following when try to run qemu from master as the following:

  # ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 --version
  QEMU emulator version 2.8.50 (v2.8.0-1006-g4e9f524)
  Copyright (c) 2003-2016 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
  # ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm -nodefaults
  -no-reboot -nographic -cpu host -vga none  -kernel .build.kernel.kvm
  -initrd .build.initrd.kvm -append 'panic=1 no-kvmclock console=ttyS0
  loglevel=7' -m 1024 -serial stdio
  qemu-system-x86_64: /home/matwey/lab/qemu/target/i386/kvm.c:1849:
  kvm_put_msrs: Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed.

  First broken commit has been bisected:

  commit 48e1a45c3166d659f781171a47dabf4a187ed7a5
  Author: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
  Date:   Wed Mar 30 22:55:29 2016 +0200

      target-i386: assert that KVM_GET/SET_MSRS can set all requested MSRs
      
      This would have caught the bug in the previous patch.
      
      Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>

  My cpuinfo is the following:

  processor       : 0
  vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
  cpu family      : 6
  model           : 44
  model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           X5675  @ 3.07GHz
  stepping        : 2
  microcode       : 0x14
  cpu MHz         : 3066.775
  cache size      : 12288 KB
  physical id     : 0
  siblings        : 2
  core id         : 0
  cpu cores       : 2
  apicid          : 0
  initial apicid  : 0
  fpu             : yes
  fpu_exception   : yes
  cpuid level     : 11
  wp              : yes
  flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx rdtscp lm 
constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl xtopology tsc_reliable nonstop_tsc 
aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt aes hypervisor 
lahf_lm ida arat epb dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi ept vpid
  bugs            :
  bogomips        : 6133.55
  clflush size    : 64
  cache_alignment : 64
  address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  power management:

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