Re: [Qemu-devel] [BUG]: kvm_set_phys_mem: error unregistering overlapping slot: Invalid argument

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Thu, 30 May 2013 09:50:10 -0700
Jordan Justen <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 May 2013 18:03:04 +0200
> > Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Il 30/05/2013 17:46, Luiz Capitulino ha scritto:
> >> > The culprit is commit:
> >> >
> >> > commit 235e8982ad393e5611cb892df54881c872eea9e1
> >> > Author: Jordan Justen <address@hidden>
> >> > Date:   Wed May 29 01:27:26 2013 -0700
> >> >
> >> >     kvm: support using KVM_MEM_READONLY flag for regions
> >> >
> >> > I'm running 3.9.2-200.fc18, btw. And, error checking is missing on the
> >> > first call to kvm_vm_ioctl().
> 
> As noted in the code, the first call is for KVM commit 75d61fbc.
> 
> I'm not sure we want to fail if an error occurs when making that call.
> (I'm pretty sure we don't want to in fact.)
> 
> Xiao, any thoughts?
> 
> >> Reproducer?
> >
> > I just try to start a VM (HEAD 87d23f7):
> >
> > ~/work/virt/ sudo ./qemu-qmp -drive 
> > file=disks/test.img,if=virtio,cache=none,aio=native -enable-kvm -m 1G 
> > -monitor stdio -cpu host -snapshot
> > QEMU 1.5.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
> > (qemu) kvm_set_phys_mem: error unregistering overlapping slot: Invalid 
> > argument
> > ~/work/virt/
> 
> Sorry. I am working with Linux 3.8.0, and I don't see this. I'll try
> to update my kernel.
> 
> Does the firmware behave as a ROM for you?

I think so:

(qemu) info roms
fw=genroms/kvmvapic.bin size=0x002400 name="kvmvapic.bin"
addr=00000000fffe0000 size=0x020000 mem=rom name="bios.bin"
(qemu) 

Is this what you're asking?