Re: kvm: repeatable kernel crash with Athlon II cpu

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Mar 29 2016 - 12:27:18 EST




On 29/03/2016 18:08, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> > > I've been running dosemu and found out that it hangs
> > > or reboots one of my PCs. This happens with any fedora-23
> > > kernels and hand-compiled kernels. The latest I tried, were:
> > > 4.4.6-300.fc23.x86_64
> > > 4.5.0-rc6
> >
> > Can you check if 4.3 works?
>
> Same crash on kernel-4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64 - the oldest
> available for f23.
>
>>> >> Hope someone can find such an old CPU an reproduce the problem.
>>> >> Please let me know what info should I provide or what debugging
>>> >> to do to help getting that fixed.
>> >
>> > Do you have experience bisecting the kernel? If so perhaps you can try
>> > doing that.
> But it looks like a genuine bug, not a regression.

Yeah, I was hoping it was introduced recently.

> Of course I can check some 3.x versions...

That would help a lot, thanks.

Paolo