Re: regression bisected; KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021

From: Chen, Tiejun
Date: Tue Dec 23 2014 - 02:51:06 EST


On 2014/12/23 15:26, Jamie Heilman wrote:
Chen, Tiejun wrote:
On 2014/12/23 9:50, Chen, Tiejun wrote:
On 2014/12/22 17:23, Jamie Heilman wrote:
Chen, Tiejun wrote:
On 2014/12/21 20:46, Jamie Heilman wrote:
With v3.19-rc1 when I run qemu-system-x86_64 -machine pc,accel=kvm I
get:

KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021

Looks some MSR writing issues such a failed entry.

If you're running a guest on an Intel machine without unrestricted mode
support, the failure can be most likely due to the guest entering an
invalid
state for Intel VT. For example, the guest maybe running in big real
mode
which is not supported on less recent Intel processors.

EAX=00000000 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000663
ESI=00000000 EDI=00000000 EBP=00000000 ESP=00000000
EIP=0000e05b EFL=00010002 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0
ES =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
CS =f000 000f0000 0000ffff 00009b00
SS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
DS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
FS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
GS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200
TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00
GDT= 00000000 0000ffff
IDT= 00000000 0000ffff
CR0=60000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000
DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000
DR3=0000000000000000
DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400
EFER=0000000000000000

And I don't see any obvious wrong as well. Any valuable info from dmesg?

With the simple qemu command above, on 3.18.1 I see:

kern.info: kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound

when I fire up a full guest that's actually useful I get:

kern.info: kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound
kern.err: kvm [4073]: vcpu0 disabled perfctr wrmsr: 0xc1 data 0xffff

On 3.18.0-rc3-00042-g34a1cd6 nothing appears in the dmesg, just the
message I mention above to stderr. Same thing with a stock
3.19.0-rc1. Once I apply your patch the simple test command produces
the same zapping shadow pages messages as 3.18.1, and a test guest of
a Debian Jessie image (w/stock distro kernel) produces the same thing
with disabled perfctr wrmsr message. However, it doesn't look like

Sorry I'm not sure if I understood current status. Looks 3.19-rc1 & my
patch just fix that error above,

KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x80000021
...

Right?

I'm entirely out of the woods, because one of my other guest VMs with a
custom kernel that works great under 3.18.1 now fails to run. Nothing
in dmesg, but here's the stderr:

But even you revert 34a1cd60d17 or just apply my patch, something else
introduced between 3.18.1 and 3.19-rc1 led this error below, right?


KVM internal error. Suberror: 1
emulation failure
EAX=000de494 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000cfd
ESI=00000059 EDI=00000000 EBP=00000000 ESP=00006fb4
EIP=000f15c1 EFL=00010016 [----AP-] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0
ES =0010 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA]
CS =0008 00000000 ffffffff 00c09b00 DPL=0 CS32 [-RA]
SS =0010 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA]
DS =0010 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA]
FS =0010 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA]
GS =0010 00000000 ffffffff 00c09300 DPL=0 DS [-WA]
LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200 DPL=0 LDT
TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00 DPL=0 TSS32-busy
GDT= 000f6be8 00000037
IDT= 000f6c26 00000000
CR0=60000011 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000
DR0=0000000000000000 DR1=0000000000000000 DR2=0000000000000000
DR3=0000000000000000
DR6=00000000ffff0ff0 DR7=0000000000000400
EFER=0000000000000000
Code=e8 ae fc ff ff 89 f2 a8 10 89 d8 75 0a b9 41 15 ff ff ff d1 <5b>
5e c3 5b 5e e9 76 ff ff ff b0 11 e6 20 e6 a0 b0 08 e6 21 b0 70 e6 a1
b0 04 e6 21 b0 02

FWIW, I get the same thing with 34a1cd60d17 reverted. Maybe there are
two bugs, maybe there's more to this first one. I can repro this

So if my understanding is correct, this is probably another bug. And
especially, I already saw the same log in another thread, "Cleaning up
the KVM clock". Maybe you can continue to `git bisect` to locate that
bad commit.


Looks just now Andy found that commit,
0e60b0799fedc495a5c57dbd669de3c10d72edd2 "kvm: change memslot sorting rule
from size to GFN", maybe you can try to revert this to try yours again.

That doesn't revert cleanly for me, and I don't have much time to

Yeah, I guess all associated commits should be reverted gradually.

fiddle with it until the 24th---so checked out the commit before it
(d4ae84a0), applied your patch, built, and yes, everything works fine

Thanks for your test.

I think I can submit this patch to fix one of yours problems and I'd like to add you as Reported-by & Tested-by.

Then we can step into another issue. And I'm trying to fetch 3.19-rc1 (because I'm always working on kvm/next.) to take a look at that but maybe Paolo is already going on that.

Tiejun

at that point. I'll probably have time for another full bisection
later, assuming things aren't ironed out already by then.

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