lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [Dec]   [28]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [REGRESSION][x86] Commit f5b2831d65 cause boot failure in VMware ESXi 5.1 guest

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][x86] Commit f5b2831d65 cause boot failure in
VMware ESXi 5.1 guest
From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: 2014年12月27日 21:51
> On 12/26/2014 02:57 AM, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When testing v3.19-rc1 kernel(in fact, try to test), the kernel itself
>> fail to boot on VMware ESXi 5.1 guest.
>> The boot failure is quite easy to describe, only one line is output:
>> "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)...ok"
>>
>> No other output(including warning/bug_on/backtrace or whatever) and the
>> guest just hangs.
>> It's OK on v3.18, so it's a regression.
>>
>> Bisect points to the following commit:
>> commit f5b2831d654167d77da8afbef4d2584897b12d0c
>> Author: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
>> Date: Mon Nov 3 14:02:02 2014 +0100
>>
>> x86: Respect PAT bit when copying pte values between large and
>> normal pages
>>
>> The PAT bit in the ptes is not moved to the correct position when
>> copying page protection attributes between entries of different
>> sized
>> pages. Translate the ptes according to their page size.
>>
>>
>> I have also created the kernel BZ report:
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90321
>>
>> Hopes this can be resolved in next rc.
>
> As the same issue has been reported with VMWare workstation which was
> related to an error in the PAT MSR emulation of VMWare, I guess this
> will be the same problem. I've already sent a patch.
>
> You should be able to boot with the "nopat" kernel option.
>
>
> Juergen
Thanks for the explanation. Again the closed source blob to blame.

Anyway, the nopat option works.

Great thanks
Qu


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-12-29 03:01    [W:0.042 / U:0.244 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site