Re: [Libguestfs] Double fault panic in L2 upon v2v conversion

Kashyap, just to be sure - it happens to you during the v2v conversion? on L2? While L1 and L0 works fine afterwords, right? Thanks On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On 01/17/2014 03:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 04:14:03PM +0200, Rom Freiman wrote: >>> How do you know that the problem is with KVM/QEMU and not with libguestfs? >> >> The guestfsd daemon is simply running the regular 'mount' command. >> The mount command causes the kernel to panic. There should be no >> circumstances where running an ordinary command like that, albeit as >> root, should cause the kernel to panic. Unless the kernel (or in this >> case, something underneath the kernel) is broken. >> >> mount -o ro /dev/sdb /sysroot/ >> [ 12.645305] PANIC: double fault, error_code: 0x0 >> [ 12.645305] CPU: 0 PID: 141 Comm: mount Not tainted >> 3.11.8-200.strato0002.fc19.strato.c3850ae03e9d.x86_64 #1 >> [ 12.645305] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 >> [ 12.645305] task: ffff88001cc816e0 ti: ffff88001cde6000 task.ti: >> ffff88001cde6000 >> [ 12.645305] RIP: 0033:[<00007fa602c5b99b>] [<00007fa602c5b99b>] >> 0x7fa602c5b99a >> [ 12.645305] RSP: 002b:00007fff4f5884a0 EFLAGS: 00010216 >> [ 12.645305] RAX: 00007fa602008ff8 RBX: 00007fa601ff0000 RCX: 00007fa601ff0000 >> [ 12.645305] RDX: 00000000003b7068 RSI: 00007fff4f588560 RDI: 00007fa601ff3d18 >> [ 12.645305] RBP: 00007fff4f5885d0 R08: 00007fa60200f310 R09: 0000000000000000 >> [ 12.645305] R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 00007fa60200f310 R12: 00007fa60200e9b0 >> [ 12.645305] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007fa602e6e990 >> [ 12.645305] FS: 00007fa602e69880(0000) GS:ffff88001f000000(0000) >> knlGS:0000000000000000 >> [ 12.645305] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b >> [ 12.645305] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000001d7fb000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 >> [ 12.645305] >> [ 12.645305] Kernel panic - not syncing: Machine halted. >> [ 12.645305] CPU: 0 PID: 141 Comm: mount Not tainted >> 3.11.8-200.strato0002.fc19.strato.c3850ae03e9d.x86_64 #1 >> [ 12.645305] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 >> [ 12.645305] ffff88001f005f58 ffff88001f005e90 ffffffff8164024b >> ffffffff819e89dc >> [ 12.645305] ffff88001f005f08 ffffffff8163c272 0000000000000008 >> ffff88001f005f18 >> [ 12.645305] ffff88001f005eb8 ffffffff8163c8e5 0000000000000046 >> 00000000000000b1 >> [ 12.645305] Call Trace: >> [ 12.645305] <#DF> [<ffffffff8164024b>] dump_stack+0x45/0x56 >> [ 12.645305] [<ffffffff8163c272>] panic+0xc8/0x1d7 >> [ 12.645305] [<ffffffff8163c8e5>] ? printk+0x67/0x69 >> [ 12.645305] [<ffffffff81048ae1>] df_debug+0x31/0x40 >> [ 12.645305] [<ffffffff810132ed>] do_double_fault+0x5d/0x80 >> [ 12.645305] [<ffffffff81650b88>] double_fault+0x28/0x30 >> [ 12.645305] <<EOE>> > > Correct. > > I encountered this same double_fault panic a week ago: > > > http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/temp/double-fault-panic-nested-kvm-envir... > > With these versions: > > $ uname -r ; rpm -q libvirt qemu-system-x86 > 3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64 > libvirt-1.1.3.1-2.fc20.x86_64 > qemu-system-x86-1.6.1-2.fc20.x86_64 > > When I briefly discussed this double fault panic with Paolo Bonzini (KVM > maintainer), he mentioned it is probably a host hypervisor bug. But this > needs more investigation (ftrace for nested guest, x86info in L1 and L2 > - if possible). > > > Answering Rom's earlier question ("Kashyap, can you please share your > experience?"): Yes, ested virtualization with KVM and Intel is not > *really* the most stable, but there's on going work upstream to improve > this and fix bbugs. > > Refer these recent bugs I filed while in a nested KVM environment: > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67761 > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68051 > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67751 > > > > -- > /kashyap