kernel: [Firmware Bug]: the BIOS has corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR 38d is 30)

[C de-Avillez]

The tale is slightly longer...

We were testing Eucalyptus, and found that -- pretty much -- all KVM instances failed to start. With Serge's help, we dug (well, Serge dug) into KVM; we set KVM in debug mode, and wrapped /usr/bin/kvm to an strace, then started an Eucalyptus instance.

Looking at the trace we found a KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST call getting E2BIG as RC; further digging in the syslog showed the message in the bug's title.

Serge then found http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=617891, which reports an issue between CCISS (the pre-Natty driver for our hardware) and HPSA (the Natty driver). Slightly different from the Debian bug, though, in our case it seems CCISS is compiled in, while HPSA is a kernel module.

But... too similar, so opening this bug.

I will upload the KVM strace and syslog (if necessary).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.38-7-server 2.6.38-7.39
Regression: Yes
Reproducible: No
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-server 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-server x86_64
AlsaDevices:
 total 0
 crw------- 1 root root 116, 1 Mar 31 14:49 seq
 crw------- 1 root root 116, 33 Mar 31 14:49 timer
AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Thu Mar 31 17:16:19 2011
Frequency: Once a day.
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=10cfd89e-43ce-4ef7-ab79-8e7fa182ea68
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard ProLiant DL380 G6
PciMultimedia:

ProcEnviron:
 LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-7-server root=UUID=3677c2d7-2c93-469b-b0b0-28d6dd71ca57 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.38-7-server N/A
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.38-7-server N/A
 linux-firmware 1.49
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/20/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: P62
dmi.chassis.type: 23
dmi.chassis.vendor: HP
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrP62:bd06/20/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnProLiantDL380G6:pvr:cvnHP:ct23:cvr:
dmi.product.name: ProLiant DL380 G6
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Marking as Critical, milestoning to Beta-2

[John Johansen (jjohansen)]

Testing has reported that this issue occurs while booting a 2.6.35 in natty.

[John Johansen (jjohansen)]

While Eucalyptus fails on natty with a 2.6.35 kernel, a plain kvm instance can boot on these machines.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

Beefing up JJ comment above: I manually ran a lucid image (copied over from my laptop) on a Natty-based system running a Maverick kernel.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

The file /var/lib/eucalyptus/instances/eucalyptus/cache/eki-E98E1B85/kernel on mabolo is bad.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

This may actually be bug 753779; we will close this one if needed.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

I am downgrading this from critical to Medium -- we have not been able to reproduce the issue.

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

This bug was filed against a series that is no longer supported and so is being marked as Won't Fix. If this issue still exists in a supported series, please file a new bug.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

[dino99 (9d9)]

eol reached https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases