[CentOS] Trouble with kernel-3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64

Wed Dec 14 15:20:54 UTC 2022
Petko Alov <petko at biophys.bas.bg>

The issue was filed at bugzilla at redhat.com, no results yet...

[Bug 2143438] kernel 3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64 on Xeon E55xx crashes upon KVM startup

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143438

Regards,

Petko

On 12/14/22 4:47 PM, Valere Binet wrote:
> Has this been solved? Is there a bug report I can follow?
> Thank you for letting me know,
> 
> Valère Binet
> 
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 2:23 PM Bill Gee <bgee at campercaver.net> wrote:
> 
>> On the other hand -Subscribe to CentOS by filling out the following form. You will be sent email requesting confirmation, to prevent others from gratuitously subscribing you. This is a hidden list, which means that the list of members is available only to the list administrator. --  I just upgraded one of my CentOS7 systems to
>> 3.10.0-1160.80.1 today.  With that kernel it will not run any KVM guest.
>>   The system hangs - HARD - within one or two seconds of issuing the
>> "virsh start ..." command.  It hangs so hard that a power-off restart
>> using the back panel switch is required.  It does not log any error I
>> can find, nor display any message about a kernel panic.
>>
>> Rebooting with 3.10.0-1160.76.1 works fine.
>>
>> The system is an older SuperMicro mainboard with a Q9400 processor.
>>
>> ===============
>> Bill Gee
>>
>> On 11/16/22 12:38, Chris Schanzle via CentOS wrote:
>>> On 11/15/22 7:50 PM, Petko Alov wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2022-11-08 15:49, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     On 11/8/22 13:12, Simon Matter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>             Is anyone else experiencing trouble with
>>>>>             kernel-3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64?
>>>>>
>>>>>             I'm seeing a kernel panics in the kvm module on one of
>>>>> our VM hosts with
>>>>>
>>>>>             it.
>>>>>
>>>>>             I did notice a new libvirt update as well, but it seems
>>>>> to work fine with
>>>>>
>>>>>             the
>>>>>             older kernel (.76.1).
>>>>>
>>>>>         Where did you get the .80.1 kernel from? I'm a bit confused
>>>>> because I can
>>>>>
>>>>>         only see .76.1 on my systems.
>>>>>
>>>>>         Simon
>>>>>
>>>>>     I'm actually running Scientific Linux, which seems to be a little
>>>>> ahead here.
>>>>> Probably not related, but vmlinuz-4.18.0-372.32.1.el8_6.x86_64
>>>>> (AlmaLinux 8.6) had a kernel panic on a Intel Xeon E5504 processor,
>>>>> but works fine on Xeon E56XX processors (5620 specifically in our
>>>>> tests). * Believe from kernel version, the original email is for
>>>>> Centos 7, possible the same change that went into the EL8 kernel went
>>>>> also to EL7 Triggered right after I used virsh start to start the vm.
>>>>> (Caused Black Screen, and reboot. Found this in the crashed kernel
>>>>> logs on /var/crash) Works fine on
>>>>> vmlinuz-4.18.0-372.26.1.el8_6.x86_64 and
>>>>> vmlinuz-4.18.0-372.16.1.el8_6.x86_64
>>>>
>>>> In fact, related - on our systems attempt to start qemu-kvm VM under
>>>> kernel-3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64 freezes any of 5 workstations with
>>>> dual E5507 (all worked OK under kernel-3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 and
>>>> any previous version). The workstations with E5-2609, E5-2650 or
>>>> E5-2630 are not affected - all of them run qemu-kvm VM under
>>>> kernel-3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64 without problems.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thankfully, no problems with 2x Xeon E5-2667 v2 and CentOS 7.9 kernel
>>> 3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64.
>>>
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