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[Linux PPC] KVM PR and KVM HV do not work if the kernel was compiled with PREEMPT

From: Christian Zigotzky <hidden>
Date: 2026-02-17 09:44:30

On 17/02/26 10:03, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:

On 2/17/26 2:22 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
quoted
Hi,

Thank you for your patch. I tested the latest git kernel with your 
patch today. Unfortunately the system freezes while booting the VM 
with KVM HV.

Cheers,
Christian
Would it be possible to share the console log or boot log of KVM to the
point it freezes?
Unfortunately there aren't any error messages.

I also tried it with:

gdb --args qemu-system-ppc64 -M ppce500 -cpu e5500 -m 1024 -kernel 
uImage-7.0-preempt -drive 
format=raw,file=void-live-powerpc-20230317-updated2.img,index=0,if=virtio 
-netdev user,id=mynet0 -device virtio-net,netdev=mynet0 -append "rw 
root=/dev/vda" -device virtio-gpu-pci -device virtio-mouse-pci -device 
virtio-keyboard-pci -enable-kvm -smp 4

and with gdb in the guest:

qemu-system-ppc64 -s -S -M ppce500 -cpu e5500 -m 1024 -kernel 
uImage-7.0-preempt -drive 
format=raw,file=void-live-powerpc-20230317-updated2.img,index=0,if=virtio 
-netdev user,id=mynet0 -device virtio-net,netdev=mynet0 -append "rw 
root=/dev/vda" -device virtio-gpu-pci -device virtio-mouse-pci -device 
virtio-keyboard-pci -enable-kvm -smp 4

The system freezed without any error messages.

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