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

[Matwey V. Kornilov]

2017-02-06 22:38 GMT+03:00 Matwey V. Kornilov <address@hidden>:
> 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?
>

Hi,

I've found the following doc:

https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/m/5/2/c/f/1/30320
-Nehalem-PMU-Programming-Guide-Core.pdf

I am not sure how up-to-date it is. Does qemu follow recommendations
from secton 4.3?
I use msr-tools package and rdmsr tool to check some registers from table 26...
IA32_MISC_ENABLE = 0
IA32_PERF_CAPABILITIES = 0
in my case.

>>
>>>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:
>>
>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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>
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Matwey V. Kornilov
> http://blog.matwey.name
> xmpp://address@hidden


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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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