Re: arm: warning at virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c:1468

2015-02-16 Thread Marc Zyngier
On 15/02/15 19:03, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2015-02-15 19:01, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2015-02-15 16:30, Marc Zyngier wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 15 2015 at 3:07:50 pm GMT, Jan Kiszka >>> wrote: On 2015-02-15 15:59, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15 2015 at 2:40:40 pm GMT, Jan Kiszka >

Re: arm: warning at virt/kvm/arm/vgic.c:1468

2015-02-16 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2015-02-16 09:57, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 15/02/15 19:03, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2015-02-15 19:01, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> On 2015-02-15 16:30, Marc Zyngier wrote: On Sun, Feb 15 2015 at 3:07:50 pm GMT, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2015-02-15 15:59, Marc Zyngier wrote: >> On Sun, F

Re: vexpress: Horribly slow MMC emulation on ARM host

2015-02-16 Thread Peter Maydell
On 16 February 2015 at 06:56, Jan Kiszka wrote: > This applies to both emulated and KVM accelerated mode. If I run the > same image (and guest kernel) emulated on my x86 box, there is still a > difference between both disk modes, but it's not that excessive. On ARM > the system requires minutes to

vexpress: Framebuffer broken with KVM enabled

2015-02-16 Thread Jan Kiszka
Hi, next issue related to KVM/QEMU on the TK1: The guest image I'm running gives proper framebuffer output when in emulation mode. Once KVM is enabled, the screen is - at best - only initially updated. Sometimes I see the famous tux images and a bit of the console texts, but usually it stays black

Re: vexpress: Framebuffer broken with KVM enabled

2015-02-16 Thread Anup Patel
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Hi, > > next issue related to KVM/QEMU on the TK1: The guest image I'm running > gives proper framebuffer output when in emulation mode. Once KVM is > enabled, the screen is - at best - only initially updated. Sometimes I > see the famous tux im

Re: vexpress: Framebuffer broken with KVM enabled

2015-02-16 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2015-02-16 10:20, Anup Patel wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Hi, >> >> next issue related to KVM/QEMU on the TK1: The guest image I'm running >> gives proper framebuffer output when in emulation mode. Once KVM is >> enabled, the screen is - at best - only initiall

Re: vexpress: Framebuffer broken with KVM enabled

2015-02-16 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2015-02-16 10:34, Alexander Spyridakis wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Hi, >> >> next issue related to KVM/QEMU on the TK1: The guest image I'm running >> gives proper framebuffer output when in emulation mode. Once KVM is >> enabled, the screen is - at best - onl

Number of threads for virtual machine process

2015-02-16 Thread mad Engineer
Hello all, On a RHEL 6.4 server i created a vm with 2 VCPU and expecting to see single process with 2 threads on host. but top -p "pid-of-qemu" -H shows many threads randomly being created and destroyed,"pid-of-qemu" remains the same but other threads' pid keep on changing. C

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] ARM64: KVM: PMU infrastructure support

2015-02-16 Thread Anup Patel
Hi Christoffer, On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote: > Hi Anup, > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 09:49:13AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Christoffer Dall >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:19:13AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: >> >> (dropping pre

[PATCH] KVM: s390: Add MEMOP ioctls for reading/writing guest memory

2015-02-16 Thread Thomas Huth
On s390, we've got to make sure to hold the IPTE lock while accessing logical memory. So let's add an ioctl for reading and writing logical memory to provide this feature for userspace, too. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt | 45 +++ arch/s39

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] ARM64: KVM: PMU infrastructure support

2015-02-16 Thread Christoffer Dall
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 05:46:54PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > Hi Christoffer, > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Christoffer Dall > wrote: > > Hi Anup, > > > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 09:49:13AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Christoffer Dall > >> wrote: > >> >

[PATCH 1/2] Update Linux headers with KVM_GUEST_MEM_OP ioctl

2015-02-16 Thread Thomas Huth
Synchronized the kvm.h Linux header for the new ioctl. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- linux-headers/linux/kvm.h | 21 + 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/linux-headers/linux/kvm.h b/linux-headers/linux/kvm.h index 12045a1..a5f2c8e 100644 --- a/

[PATCH 0/2] s390x/kvm: ioctl for reading and writing from/to guest memory

2015-02-16 Thread Thomas Huth
These two patches enable QEMU to make use of the new KVM_GUEST_MEM_OP ioctl on s390x (see my kernel patch with the title "KVM: s390: Add MEMOP ioctls for reading/writing guest memory" that I've posted on the KVM mailing list). The first patch in this series updates the Linux headers with the new io

[PATCH 2/2] s390x/mmu: Use ioctl for reading and writing from/to guest memory

2015-02-16 Thread Thomas Huth
Add code to make use of the new ioctl for reading from / writing to virtual guest memory. By using the ioctl, the memory accesses are now protected with the so-called ipte-lock in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- target-s390x/cpu.h|7 +++ target-s390x/kvm.c| 3

Re: KVM call for agenda for 2015-02-17

2015-02-16 Thread Juan Quintela
Juan Quintela wrote: > Hi > > Please, send any topic that you are interested in covering. Gentle reminder that we still don't have agenda for tomorrow call. Thanks, Juan. > > > Call details: > > By popular demand, a google calendar public entry with it > > > https://www.google.com/calendar

Re: Number of threads for virtual machine process

2015-02-16 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 16/02/2015 11:54, mad Engineer wrote: > Hello all, > On a RHEL 6.4 server i created a vm with 2 VCPU and > expecting to see single process with 2 threads on host. > but > top -p "pid-of-qemu" -H > > shows many threads randomly being created and > destroyed,"pid-of-qemu" r

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V5] x86 spinlock: Fix memory corruption on completing completions

2015-02-16 Thread David Vrabel
On 15/02/15 17:30, Raghavendra K T wrote: > --- a/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c > @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static u8 zero_stats; > static inline void check_zero(void) > { > u8 ret; > - u8 old = ACCESS_ONCE(zero_stats); > + u8 old = READ_ONCE(zero_stats); > i

encryption

2015-02-16 Thread Henry Noack
Hello you guys, it is possible to decrypt a kvm volume only by using the command line after starting it? Best regards Henry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/m

[nVMX] With 3.20.0-0.rc0.git5.1 on L0, booting L2 guest results in L1 *rebooting*

2015-02-16 Thread Kashyap Chamarthy
I can observe this only one of the Intel Xeon machines (which has 48 CPUs and 1TB memory), but very reliably reproducible. Reproducer: - Just ensure physical host (L0) and guest hypervisor (L1) are running 3.20.0-0.rc0.git5.1 Kernel (I used from Fedora's Rawhide). Preferably on an Inte

Re: Number of threads for virtual machine process

2015-02-16 Thread mad Engineer
Thanks for the response. Can a vm process create any number of extra threads based on i/o requirement ,or is there any relation between number of VCPU allowed and these extra threads. I hope these threads are for disk i/o and for network it uses vhost-'pid' process. Thanks for your he

Re: [nVMX] With 3.20.0-0.rc0.git5.1 on L0, booting L2 guest results in L1 *rebooting*

2015-02-16 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2015-02-16 21:40, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > I can observe this only one of the Intel Xeon machines (which has 48 > CPUs and 1TB memory), but very reliably reproducible. > > > Reproducer: > > - Just ensure physical host (L0) and guest hypervisor (L1) are running > 3.20.0-0.rc0.git5.1 Ke

Re: Number of threads for virtual machine process

2015-02-16 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 17/02/2015 05:44, mad Engineer wrote: > Thanks for the response. >Can a vm process create any number of extra threads based > on i/o requirement ,or is there any relation between number of VCPU > allowed and these extra threads. No, there is not relation. The I/O threads are crea