From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 18 14:26:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE191065673 for ; Sun, 18 May 2008 14:26:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from gwyn.kn-bremen.de (gwyn.kn-bremen.de [212.63.36.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95EAB8FC13 for ; Sun, 18 May 2008 14:26:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: by gwyn.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 29EF22D8604; Sun, 18 May 2008 16:26:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (nox@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.14.2/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m4IEORQD021052; Sun, 18 May 2008 16:24:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.14.2/8.13.6/Submit) id m4IEORwI021051; Sun, 18 May 2008 16:24:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nox) From: Juergen Lock Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 16:24:27 +0200 To: Todd Wasson Message-ID: <20080518142427.GA20876@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Todd Wasson , freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org References: <20080515080948.3B1F15B47@mail.bitblocks.com> <200805152323.m4FNNO7H017348@saturn.kn-bremen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kqemu locking my machine hard on amd64 smp, with most recent patches X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 14:26:36 -0000 On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 06:07:32PM -0400, Todd Wasson wrote: > Using -m 256 doesn't help, though interestingly 1.3.0.p11_5 crashes (but > doesn't take down the machine) with -m 1536 but is fine with -m 256. > 1.3.0.p11_6 hangs the machine regardless, though. > > I haven't been using -soundhw at all recently, but yes, I do actually have > sound on the host. > > Lowering hw.physmem to 2GB and using -m 256 still results in a hang. > > I'm going to keep these and try the max_locked_pages changes that Bakul > Shah suggested. I'll post the results to the list. > > Thanks again. OK can you try the following kernel patch with the latest kqemu (also at http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/patch-sys-amd64-seperate-gdt.txt - untested because my amd64 smp box is in the middle of a portupgrade that was long overdue...) Index: src/sys/amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c,v retrieving revision 1.287.2.2 diff -u -p -u -r1.287.2.2 mp_machdep.c --- src/sys/amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c 28 Nov 2007 23:24:06 -0000 1.287.2.2 +++ src/sys/amd64/amd64/mp_machdep.c 18 May 2008 13:45:32 -0000 @@ -457,10 +457,18 @@ init_secondary(void) common_tss[cpu].tss_iobase = sizeof(struct amd64tss); common_tss[cpu].tss_ist1 = (long)&doublefault_stack[PAGE_SIZE]; + /* Use a seperate gdt for each cpu because the tss differs + * This avoids complications for e.g. virtualization software + * that needs to reload the task register and otherwise would + * then end up using the last cpu's tss on others + */ + bcopy(&gdt[0], &gdt[NGDT * cpu], NGDT * sizeof(gdt[0])); + gdt_segs[GPROC0_SEL].ssd_base = (long) &common_tss[cpu]; ssdtosyssd(&gdt_segs[GPROC0_SEL], - (struct system_segment_descriptor *)&gdt[GPROC0_SEL]); + (struct system_segment_descriptor *)&gdt[NGDT * cpu + GPROC0_SEL]); + r_gdt.rd_base = (long) &gdt[NGDT * cpu]; lgdt(&r_gdt); /* does magic intra-segment return */ /* Get per-cpu data */