** Summary changed:
- kernel 4.15.0-136 causes dosemu2 with kvm freezes
+ Bionic kernel 4.15.0-136 causes dosemu2 (with kvm mode) freezes due to lack
of KVM patch
** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+ * Since kernel 4.15.0-136, Bionic kernel included a very complex KVM fix for
a kind of "race" in interrupt window with irqchip-split (reported in [0]). The
fix was proposed in the form of a patch series containing 2 patches [1] - this
was merged in Ubuntu though the stable tree, in the form of the following
commit:
+ 71cc849b7093 ("KVM: x86: Fix split-irqchip vs interrupt injection window
request") [2]
+
+ * The problem is that such commit has a companion required commit, which
+ was not proposed in the stable tree. In fact, there was a confusion
+ among KVM community and the stable maintainer [3], due to the lack of
+ such missing commit - because of that, the series was removed from
+ stable trees 4.14.y and 4.9.y, but the solo commit was merged alone in
+ Ubuntu kernel.
+
+ * Without the companion patch, we might have a KVM infinite "loop" condition
in the core IRQ handling, since the merged commit requires an extra check in
kvm_cpu_has_extint() and a condition "inversion" in kvm_cpu_get_extint(), only
present in the missing companion patch. Users reported that this manifested as
dosemu2 (running in KVM mode) to be stuck in kernel 4.15.0-136 and -137, while
works fine in 4.15.0-135 and the
+ -137 plus the companion patch.
+
+ * So, we hereby backport the companion commit, originally upstream
+ patch: 72c3bcdcda ("KVM: x86: handle !lapic_in_kernel case in
+ kvm_cpu_*_extint") [4]
+
+ [Test Case]
+ * The test case proposed was the reported bug: try running dosemu2 (with kvm
mode enabled) and it fails without the companion commit.
+
+ * In order to test the correctness of both fixes together, we could rely
+ in the test proposed in [0] (running a guest with "noapic"), but it
+ wasn't consistent and the VMM wasn't mentioned, so we might have a
+ workaround mechanism in qemu, for example, preventing such test to
+ reproduce the issue.
+
+ [Where problems could occur]
+ * Since this is a KVM core modification, it could affect interrupt handling
in KVM but without the fix, we are already experiencing a bug. Also, both
commits were backported to 5.4.y and 4.19.y, so Focal and subsequent released
are already running with them.
+
+ [0]
+
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/62918f65ec78f8990278a6a0db0567968fa23e49.ca...@infradead.org/
+
+ [1]
+ https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20201127112114.3219360-1-pbonz...@redhat.com/
+
+ [2] http://git.kernel.org/linus/71cc849b70
+
+ [3]
+
https://lore.kernel.org/stable/d29c4b25-33f6-8d99-7a45-8f4e06f5a...@redhat.com/
+
+ [4] http://git.kernel.org/linus/72c3bcdcda
+
+
+ <Original description>
+
With the latest kernel 4.15.0-136 updates on ubuntu 18.04 and ubuntu
- 16.04, dosemu2 with kvm freezes boot.
+ 16.04, dosemu2 with kvm freezes boot.
dosemu2 source: https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2
dosemu2 package can be obtained from
https://launchpad.net/~dosemu2/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
1. ubuntu version
lsb_release -rd
- Description: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
- Release: 18.04
+ Description: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
+ Release: 18.04
2. package version
$ apt-cache policy dosemu2
dosemu2:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
2.0~pre8-2 -1
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3. What is expected to happen: The dosemu program runs fine as in previous
kernel version
4. What happened instead: The dosemu freezes on loading
I have also reported this problem to dosemu2 developer, here is my bug report:
https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2/issues/1404
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Guilherme G. Piccoli (gpiccoli)
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