Re: [Qemu-devel] i386/kvm: QEMU crash when doing 'info cpus' after CPU hotplug

[Igor Mammedov]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 19:19:15 +0200
Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi x86 folks,
> 
> While trying to reproduce on x86 an issue we're currently hitting on ppc,
> I got this:
> 
> $ ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -snapshot -no-shutdown -nographic 
> -machine q35,accel=kvm -smp 1,maxcpus=2 -serial mon:stdio -drive 
> file=$HOME/images/fedora26-x86_64.qcow2,if=virtio
> QEMU 2.10.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
> (qemu) device_add host-x86_64-cpu,socket-id=1,core-id=0,thread-id=0,id=foo
cpu type here doesn't match currently in use one,
I've just sent patch that adds check

valid cpu type and other mandatory for hotplug properties
one could find out with HMP command:
  info hotpluggable-cpus
or its QMP equivalent

> (qemu) info cpus
> error: failed to get MSR 0x38d
> qemu-system-x86_64: /home/greg/Work/qemu/qemu-devel/target/i386/kvm.c:2121: 
> kvm_get_msrs: Assertion `ret == cpu->kvm_msr_buf->nmsrs' failed.
> Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> Same happens with a pc machine.
> 
> But it doesn't happen if I use cpu-add instead of device_add:
> 
> (qemu) cpu-add 1
that one works because of it plugs the same cpu type

PS:
we probably should obsolete cpu-add in couple releases as the last user (s390)
just gained support for device_add cpu, so it won't confuse people.

> (qemu) [    8.335221] CPU1 has been hot-added
> (qemu) info cpus
> * CPU #0: pc=0xffffffffb08986e6 (halted) thread_id=23964
>   CPU #1: pc=0x00000000fffffff0 thread_id=24001
> 
> This is with the QEMU master branch SHA1 530049bc1dcc24c.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Greg
>