[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1563887] Re: qemu-system-ppc64 freezes on starting image on ppc64le

[Ryan Harper]

Here's an update.

The Xenial kernel doesn;t like the emulated POWER7 cpu that the command
line being used generates by default.

processor       : 0
cpu             : POWER7 (raw), altivec supported
clock           : 1000.000000MHz
revision        : 2.3 (pvr 003f 0203)

timebase        : 512000000
platform        : pSeries
model           : IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)
machine         : CHRP IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)

We can boot a Wily image (kernel 4.2.0-35) just fine with the POWER7
cpu.


When booting Xenial's kernel with POWER7 cpu, it produces a stacktrace during 
module load:

[    9.885165] Loaded X.509 cert 'Build time autogenerated kernel key: 
6687eed33bf99302166296c3e5cafe31ef38ad41'
[    9.886507] zswap: loaded using pool lzo/zbud
[    9.916000] modprobe[74]: unhandled signal 4 at 00003fffb5a4d03c nip 
00003fffb5a4d03c lr 00003fffb5a25e24 code 30001
[    9.925819] modprobe[76]: unhandled signal 4 at 00003fff85b9d03c nip 
00003fff85b9d03c lr 00003fff85b75e24 code 30001
[    9.928401] Key type trusted registered
[    9.930762] modprobe[79]: unhandled signal 4 at 00003fff7d05d03c nip 
00003fff7d05d03c lr 00003fff7d035e24 code 30001
[    9.933360] modprobe[80]: unhandled signal 4 at 00003fff8820d03c nip 
00003fff8820d03c lr 00003fff881e5e24 code 30001
[    9.936240] modprobe[83]: unhandled signal 4 at 00003fffb4fbd03c nip 
00003fffb4fbd03c lr 00003fffb4f95e24 code 30001
[    9.938873] modprobe[84]: unhandled signal 4 at 00003fff92d4d03c nip 
00003fff92d4d03c lr 00003fff92d25e24 code 30001
[    9.940335] Key type encrypted registered
[    9.940461] AppArmor: AppArmor sha1 policy hashing enabled
[    9.941005] ima: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!
[    9.942985] evm: HMAC attrs: 0x1
[    9.947081] hctosys: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[    9.987867] Freeing unused kernel memory: 6144K (c000000000ea0000 - 
c0000000014a0000)
[    9.991123] init[1]: unhandled signal 4 at 00003fff8edfd03c nip 
00003fff8edfd03c lr 00003fff8edd5e24 code 30001
[    9.994581] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! 
exitcode=0x00000004
[    9.994581] 
[    9.994889] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.4.0-18-generic #34-Ubuntu
[    9.995054] Call Trace:
[    9.995216] [c00000001e4c3a50] [c000000000aed6fc] dump_stack+0xb0/0xf0 
(unreliable)
[    9.995336] [c00000001e4c3a90] [c000000000ae9930] panic+0x100/0x2c0
[    9.995398] [c00000001e4c3b20] [c0000000000bd554] do_exit+0xc24/0xc30
[    9.995443] [c00000001e4c3be0] [c0000000000bd644] do_group_exit+0x64/0x100
[    9.995490] [c00000001e4c3c20] [c0000000000ceaac] get_signal+0x55c/0x7b0
[    9.995534] [c00000001e4c3d10] [c000000000017424] do_signal+0x54/0x2b0
[    9.995578] [c00000001e4c3e00] [c00000000001787c] do_notify_resume+0xbc/0xd0
[    9.995677] [c00000001e4c3e30] [c000000000009838] 
ret_from_except_lite+0x64/0x68
[   10.011069] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! 
exitcode=0x00000004
[   10.011069] 


When we use -enable-kvm, this bypasses the tcg POWER7 cpu, and uses the host 
cpu type (POWER8) which is why we can boot the Xenial kernel with KVM.

We need to open a linux task to help track down that issue; also if
someone is testing Xenial on POWER7 hardware, that may help determine if
there is a lurking qemu tcg issue, though given that Wily kernels boot
fine in tcg mode; it's more likely there's something that changed/broke
in the kernels since 4.2.0-35.

I'm marking the qemu task invalid, and will open the linux task.


** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  qemu-system-ppc64 freezes on starting image on ppc64le

Status in QEMU:
  Confirmed
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in livecd-rootfs package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  qemu-system-ppc64 running on Ubuntu 16.04 beta-2 fails to start an
  image as part of the certification process. This on an IBM ppc64le in
  PowerVM mode running Ubuntu 16.04 beta-2 deployed by MAAS 1.9.1. There
  is no error output.

  address@hidden:~/kvm$ qemu-system-ppc64 -m 256 -display none -nographic -net 
nic -net user,net=10.0.0.0/8,host=10.0.0.1,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 -machine 
pseries -drive file=xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img,if=virtio -drive 
file=seed.iso,if=virtio
  WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'seed.iso' and probing guessed 
raw.
           Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, 
write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
           Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.

  SLOF **********************************************************************
  QEMU Starting
   Build Date = Jan 29 2016 18:58:37
   FW Version = buildd@ release 20151103
   Press "s" to enter Open Firmware.

  Populating /vdevice methods
  Populating /vdevice/address@hidden
  Populating /vdevice/address@hidden
  Populating /vdevice/address@hidden
  Populating /vdevice/address@hidden
         SCSI: Looking for devices
            8200000000000000 CD-ROM   : "QEMU     QEMU CD-ROM      2.5+"
  Populating /address@hidden
                       00 1800 (D) : 1af4 1001    virtio [ block ]
                       00 1000 (D) : 1af4 1001    virtio [ block ]
                       00 0800 (D) : 106b 003f    serial bus [ usb-ohci ]
                       00 0000 (D) : 1234 1111    qemu vga
  No NVRAM common partition, re-initializing...
  Installing QEMU fb

  Scanning USB
    OHCI: initializing
      USB Keyboard
      USB mouse
  No console specified using screen & keyboard

    Welcome to Open Firmware

    Copyright (c) 2004, 2011 IBM Corporation All rights reserved.
    This program and the accompanying materials are made available
    under the terms of the BSD License available at
    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

  Trying to load:  from: /address@hidden/address@hidden ...
  E3404: Not a bootable device!
  Trying to load:  from: /address@hidden/address@hidden ...   Successfully 
loaded
  Linux ppc64le
  #31-Ubuntu SMP F

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: qemu-system-ppc 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-16.32-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-16-generic ppc64le
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: ppc64el
  Date: Wed Mar 30 14:10:01 2016
  KvmCmdLine:
   COMMAND         STAT  EUID  RUID   PID  PPID %CPU COMMAND
   kvm-irqfd-clean S<       0     0  1172     2  0.0 [kvm-irqfd-clean]
   qemu-nbd        Ssl      0     0 13467     1  0.0 qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 
xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img
   qemu-system-ppc Sl+   1000  1000 18973 18896  101 qemu-system-ppc64 -m 256 
-display none -nographic -net nic -net 
user,net=10.0.0.0/8,host=10.0.0.1,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 -machine pseries -drive 
file=xenial-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-disk1.img,if=virtio -drive 
file=seed.iso,if=virtio
  Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1:
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinux-4.4.0-16-generic 
root=UUID=92d820c8-ab25-497b-9b1e-f1435992bbf3 ro
  ProcLoadAvg: 1.08 0.94 0.58 2/616 19571
  ProcLocks:
   1: POSIX  ADVISORY  WRITE 886 00:13:381 0 EOF
   2: POSIX  ADVISORY  WRITE 1339 00:13:528 0 EOF
   3: FLOCK  ADVISORY  WRITE 1284 00:13:522 0 EOF
   4: POSIX  ADVISORY  WRITE 2281 00:13:563 0 EOF
   5: POSIX  ADVISORY  WRITE 1331 00:13:536 0 EOF
  ProcSwaps:
   Filename                             Type            Size    Used    Priority
   /swap.img                               file         8388544 0       -1
  ProcVersion: Linux version 4.4.0-16-generic (address@hidden) (gcc version 
5.3.1 20160320 (Ubuntu/Linaro/IBM 5.3.1-12ubuntu4) ) #32-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 24 
22:31:14 UTC 2016
  SourcePackage: qemu
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  bootlist:
   /address@hidden/pci1014,address@hidden/sas/address@hidden
   
/address@hidden/address@hidden:speed=auto,duplex=auto,csarch,000.000.000.000,,000.000.000.000,000.000.000.000,5,5,000.000.000.000,512
   
/address@hidden/address@hidden,1:speed=auto,duplex=auto,csarch,000.000.000.000,,000.000.000.000,000.000.000.000,5,5,000.000.000.000,512
   
/address@hidden/address@hidden,2:speed=auto,duplex=auto,csarch,000.000.000.000,,000.000.000.000,000.000.000.000,5,5,000.000.000.000,512
   
/address@hidden/address@hidden,3:speed=auto,duplex=auto,csarch,000.000.000.000,,000.000.000.000,000.000.000.000,5,5,000.000.000.000,512
  cpu_cores: Number of cores present = 8
  cpu_coreson: Number of cores online = 8
  cpu_smt: SMT=8
  lscfg_vp: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'lscfg'
  lsmcode: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'lsmcode'

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