Re: KASLR causes intermittent boot failures on some systems

[Jeff Moyer]

Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> CCing Kees for information.
>
> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> commit 021182e52fe01 ("x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory
>> regions") causes some of my systems with persistent memory (whether real
>> or emulated) to fail to boot with a couple of different crash
>> signatures.  The first signature is a NMI watchdog lockup of all but 1
>> cpu, which causes much difficulty in extracting useful information from
>> the console.  The second variant is an invalid paging request, listed
>> below.
>>
>> On some systems, I haven't hit this problem at all.  Other systems
>> experience a failed boot maybe 20-30% of the time.  To reproduce it,
>> configure some emulated pmem on your system.  You can find directions
>> for that here: https://nvdimm.wiki.kernel.org/
>
> Did you try to repro on qemu?

I did not.

-Jeff