[ltt-dev] [BUG] Linux 2.6.28.4 freezing on a 32-bits x86 Thinkpad T43p

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:50:38PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers at polymtl.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Here is a new backtrace, taken with a huge amount of debugging active, which still 
> > points to an interrupt handler nested over kvm_mmu_pte_write as the culprit. It's 
> > weird that the kvm code gets called on my modest Pentium M laptop, which I think 
> > has no VT-x support at all. I am not running any KVM VMs on this machine. The 
> > problem still happens on 2.6.28.4, and Slub redzones did not identify any memory 
> > corruption. This could be due to kvm_mmu_pte_write which either should not be 
> > called at all, or due to improper interrupt disabling in this function.

This code is supposed to function on KVM guests only (kvm_mmu_pte_write
= paravirtual pte update).

There's some really screwed if its executing in a native machine.