Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 09:47:26PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> and "save_xstate_sig+0x81" shows up on all stacks, although only on
> CPU1 does it show up as a "guaranteed" part of the stack chain (ie it
> matches frame pointer data too). CPU1 also has that __clear_user show
> up (which is called from save_xstate_sig), but not other CPU's.  CPU2
> and CPU3 have "save_xstate_sig+0x98" in addition to that +0x81 thing.
> 
> My guess is that "save_xstate_sig+0x81" is the instruction after the
> __clear_user call, and that CPU1 took the fault in __clear_user(),
> while CPU2 and CPU3 took the fault at "save_xstate_sig+0x98" instead,
> which I'd guess is the
> 
>         xsave64 (%rdi)

Err, maybe a wild guess, but could XSAVE be encountering some problems,
like store ordering violations or somesuch?

Quick search shows

"AZ72. Store Ordering Violation When Using XSAVE"

here http://download.intel.com/design/mobile/specupdt/320121.pdf which
talks about SSE context stores happening out of order. Now, there are a
lot of IFs like does Dave's machine even have the erratum and even if,
would that erratum cause some sort of a livelock leading to the kernel
lockups and so on and so on...

It might be worth to rule out though.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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