Re: [REGRESSION 5.0.x] Windows XP broken on KVM

[Takashi Iwai]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:05:34 +0200,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:53:28 +0200,
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 09:38:52AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > we've got a regression report on the recent 5.0.x kernel, starting
> > > from 5.0.6, where Windows XP can't boot on KVM any longer.
> > > 
> > > The culprit seems to be the patch
> > >    KVM: x86: update %rip after emulating IO
> > > with the upstream commit 45def77ebf79e2e8942b89ed79294d97ce914fa0.
> > > Reverting this alone fixed the problem.
> > > 
> > > The report is found at openSUSE bugzilla:
> > >   https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132694
> > > 
> > > Is there already a followup fix?  If not, we need to revert it from
> > > stable, at least.
> > 
> > Is this also a problem in 5.1-rc5?
> 
> Only 5.0.x has been tested, so far.
> I'll ask the reporter to try 5.1-rc if Paolo can't reproduce the
> problem in his side.

The reporter confirmed that the problem is present with the latest
5.1-rc kernel, too.

FWIW, it's a Ryzen system.  Check the bugzilla URL above for details.


thanks,

Takashi