Re: [Qemu-devel] network usage causes kernel warning/stack-dump in virtual Linux host

[Andreas Färber]

Am 10.06.2007 um 18:35 schrieb Rolf Fokkens:

> Sorry - immidiately after being absolutely sure about this, the  
> same problem also occured with rtl8139 emulation. Well, it's an  
> issue anyhow.
>
> Rolf
>
> Rolf Fokkens wrote:
> > On both qemu (no-kqemu) and qemu-kvm (no-kvm or with kvm) release  
> > 0.9.0 the following happens when using ne2000 (default) emulation:
> >
> > UG: waring at kernel/softirq.c:138/local_bh_enable() (Not tainted)
> > [<c042b0cf>] local_bh_enable+    /0x92
> > [..........] cond_resched_sof    +0x2c/0x42
> > [..........] release_sock+0x4f/0 9d
> > [..........] inet_stream_connect+0x116/0x1ff
> > [..........] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x35
> > [..........] sys_connect+0x82/0xad
> > [..........] d_instantiate+0x5c/ x60
> > [..........] sock_attach_fd+0x70/0xcf
> > [..........] selinux_file_alloc_security+0x1f/0x40
> > [..........] get_empty_filp+0x99/0x151
> > [..........] __sock_create+0x16e/0x1a8
> > [..........] fd_install+0x1e/0x47
> > [..........] sock_map_fd+0x41/0x47
> > [..........] sys_socketcall+0xac/0x261
> > [..........] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> >
> > The virtual host runs fedora 7, kernel-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7. When  
> > using windows-XP as a virtual host a network hang also occurs, but  
> > I have no details about it.
> >
> > The mentioned problems (for both Linux and Windows XP) do not  
> > occur when using rtl8139 emulation.

The problem might rather be Fedora 7 itself - someone recently  
reported they changed some of their ATA libraries and with the recent  
Fedora and QEMU CVS updates it no longer boots at all for me...

NE2000 appears to work fine on my other guests.

Andreas