On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:23:26AM -0000, Till Schäfer wrote: > [ 0.027998] Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff88000f8b8000, task > ffff88000f8b0000) > [ 0.027998] Stack: > [ 0.027998] 0000000000000000 ffffffff81b1b550 ffff88000f8b9ef0 > ffffffff81aa4989 > [ 0.027998] 0000000000000040 ffffffff81a800d8 ffff88000f8b9f20 > ffffffff81b1b550 > [ 0.027998] ffffffff81aa4955 0000000000000000 ffff88000f8b9f20 > ffffffff810002ea > [ 0.027998] Call Trace: > [ 0.027998] [<ffffffff81aa4989>] init_hw_perf_events+0x34/0x3ef > [ 0.027998] [<ffffffff81aa4955>] ? check_bugs+0x2d/0x2d > [ 0.027998] [<ffffffff810002ea>] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x12c > [ 0.027998] [<ffffffff81a9eb45>] kernel_init+0x7a/0x141 > [ 0.027998] [<ffffffff814963b4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 > [ 0.027998] [<ffffffff81a9eacb>] ? start_kernel+0x339/0x339 > [ 0.027998] [<ffffffff814963b0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb > [ 0.027998] Code: 48 d3 e0 48 ff c8 41 ff ca 48 89 05 b4 99 fd ff 7e 2b 83 > e2 1f b8 03 00 00 00 83 fa 02 b9 45 03 00 00 0f 4f c2 89 05 91 99 fd ff <0f> > 32 48 c1 e2 20 89 c0 48 09 c2 48 89 15 ef 99 fd ff e8 cf be > [ 0.027998] RIP [<ffffffff81aa553f>] intel_pmu_init+0x283/0x85e > [ 0.027998] RSP <ffff88000f8b9ea0> > [ 0.029015] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- > [ 0.030006] swapper/0 used greatest stack depth: 5576 bytes left > [ 0.031005] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > [ 0.032006] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G D 3.2.12-gentoo #1 > [ 0.033000] Call Trace: > [ 0.034003] [<ffffffff8148d64e>] panic+0x8c/0x198 > [ 0.035005] [<ffffffff8103e1f0>] do_exit+0x98/0x7d8 > [ 0.036005] [<ffffffff8103c564>] ? kmsg_dump+0x46/0xd2 > [ 0.037007] [<ffffffff81490078>] oops_end+0xb1/0xb9 > [ 0.038001] [<ffffffff81004bd9>] die+0x55/0x60 > [ 0.039005] [<ffffffff8148fd30>] do_general_protection+0x12e/0x136 > [ 0.040001] [<ffffffff81aa4955>] ? check_bugs+0x2d/0x2d > [ 0.041005] [<ffffffff8148f83f>] general_protection+0x1f/0x30 Guest tries to use PMU MSR and gets #GP. I wonder which MSR it uses that KVM does not emulate. Can you trace it like that: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tracing
You can run qemu with -cpu host,level=9 to disable PMU emulation. > [ 0.042001] [<ffffffff81aa4955>] ? check_bugs+0x2d/0x2d > [ 0.043004] [<ffffffff81aa553f>] ? intel_pmu_init+0x283/0x85e > [ 0.044001] [<ffffffff81aa4989>] init_hw_perf_events+0x34/0x3ef > [ 0.045005] [<ffffffff81aa4955>] ? check_bugs+0x2d/0x2d > [ 0.046003] [<ffffffff810002ea>] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x12c > [ 0.047003] [<ffffffff81a9eb45>] kernel_init+0x7a/0x141 > [ 0.048000] [<ffffffff814963b4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 > [ 0.049000] [<ffffffff81a9eacb>] ? start_kernel+0x339/0x339 > [ 0.050008] [<ffffffff814963b0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb > -- Gleb.