Re: Current mainline git (24e700e291d52bd2) hangs when building e.g. perf

From: Markus Trippelsdorf
Date: Fri Sep 08 2017 - 06:39:14 EST


On 2017.09.08 at 12:35 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 2017.09.08 at 11:16 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 10:05:36AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 08:26:44AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > CC+ Borislav. He might have access to such a beast
> > > >
> > > > Can I have /proc/cpuinfo and dmesg pls, in order to see whether I have
> > > > something similar?
> > > >
> > > > Private mail's fine too.
> > >
> > > So I don't have exactly your model - mine is model 2, stepping 3 but I see
> > > something strange too, in dmesg:
> >
> > I'm pretty sure the bug is in the merged 'x86-mm-for-linus' branch:
> > Either Andy's "PCID optimized TLB flushing" (would be my guess) or
> > 'encrypted memory' support by Tom Lendacky.
> >
> > (Bisecting is hard, because sometimes I can compile stuff for over 15
> > minutes without hitting the bug. At other times the machine locks up
> > hard when starting X11 already.)
>
> Do you have the 72c0098d92ce fix?

Yes. The bug still happens on the current git tree (which has the fix
already):
% git describe
v4.13-9217-g5969d1bb3082

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Markus