[elrepo] bizarre issue with latest nvidia driver and kvm

[Phil Perry]

On 11/10/11 19:01, Joe Pruett wrote:
> my windows7 kvm guest started crashing semi regularly.  after rebuilding
> kvm to get debugging info, i got the following traceback:
>
> #0  0x0000003a4a200a08 in _nv007tls ()
>     from /usr/lib64/nvidia/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.285.05.09
> #1  0x00000030d4e05ad9 in __nptl_deallocate_tsd () from
> /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> #2  0x00000030d4e0674b in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> #3  0x00000030d42d44bd in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>
> it seems very odd that kvm should ever be touching nvidia code, but that
> seems to be the case.  i'll be rolling back to the previous nvidia
> version and hoping that fixes the problem.  should kvm ever touch this
> library?  or is something in the libnvidia-tls accidentally getting
> linked against by kvm?

Hi Joe,

I see you've subsequently answered your own question regarding kvm 
linking the nvidia libs.

If you want to follow up, I'd suggest you start a thread at the nvidia 
support forums for Linux:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

and I'd suggest reading the Sticky threads at the top of the forum first 
about how to file a bug report.

There are a few nvidia devs who hang out there and they are pretty good 
wrt tracking down and fixing bugs.

Sorry I'm not able to offer anything more constructive than that.

Regards,

Phil