Linux kernel: powerpc: KVM guest can trigger host crash on Power8

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Michael!

Sorry for the long time without any responses. Shall we continue debugging this?

We're currently running 5.15.x on the host system and the guests and the testsuite
for gcc-9 still reproducibly kills the KVM host.

Adrian

On 11/1/21 07:53, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Sure, will give that a try.
> 
> I was able to crash my machine over the weekend, building openjdk, but I
> haven't been able to reproduce it for ~24 hours now (I didn't change
> anything).
> 
> 
> Can you try running your guests with no SMT threads?
> 
> I think one of your guests was using:
> 
>   -smp 32,sockets=1,dies=1,cores=8,threads=4
> 
> Can you change that to:
> 
>   -smp 8,sockets=1,dies=1,cores=8,threads=1
> 
> 
> And something similar for the other guest(s).
> 
> If the system is stable with those settings that would be useful
> information, and would also mean you could use the system without it
> crashing semi regularly.
> 
> cheers
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