VMs crash running atop RHEV for IBM Power

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When under load RHEL 7.1 guest running atop RHEV for IBM Power 3.4.4.1-36 The VM is shutdown and the following output is logged in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/.log on the RHEV host :
*** Error in `/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64': free(): invalid pointer: 0x00003fff8402a290 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0xaeab4)[0x3fff957ceab4]
/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64(+0x33b154)[0x421db154]
/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_free-0x112400)[0x3fff96a91dc8]
/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_slice_free1-0xf43e4)[0x3fff96ab1394]
/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64(+0x15c95c)[0x41ffc95c]
/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64(+0x16c48c)[0x4200c48c]
/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64(+0x14089c)[0x41fe089c]
/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64(+0x140d24)[0x41fe0d24]
/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64(+0x1410f8)[0x41fe10f8]
/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch-0x11a028)[0x3fff96a89b40]
/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64(+0x2a51fc)[0x421451fc]
/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64(+0x136160)[0x41fd6160]
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x4432c)[0x3fff9576432c]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main-0x19d06c)[0x3fff95764554]

Environment

  • RHEV for IBM Power 3.4.4.1-36

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