Re: intel_pstate divide error with v3.13-rc4-256-gb7000ad

[Gleb Natapov]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 06:52:48PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 03:15:39PM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> > [. . .]
> > 
> > >> KVM does not emulate P-states at all. intel_pstate_init() calls
> > >> intel_pstate_msrs_not_valid() before printing "Intel P-state driver
> > >> initializing."  which suppose to fail since it checks that two reads of
> > >> MSR_IA32_APERF return different values, but KVM does not emulate this msr
> > >> at all, so both calls should return zero (KVM suppose to inject #GP, all rdmsrl
> > >> are patched to be rdmsrl_safe in a guest).
> > >>
> > >> Anything interesting in host dmesg?
> > 
> > Heya Gleb,
> > 
> > Here's the relevant dmesg snippet (full dmesg, refer the attachment below):
> That's guest dmesg. What about host one? Can you ftrace the failure?
> 
Ugh, it looks like guest dmesg but there are KVM messages there too ("[
281.443662] kvm [2452]: vcpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0xe8" is unhandled access
to MSR_IA32_APERF I was talking about above), so I guess this is nested
guest invocation?  Does it happen in non nested guest?

--
			Gleb.
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