Re: perf: perf_fuzzer quickly locks up on 4.15-rc7
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jan 08 2018 - 12:30:13 EST
* Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Was trying out current git (4.15-rc7) and the perf_fuzzer very quickly
> will lock up my Haswell test machine so solidly that I don't get any debug
> info, even with a serial console.
That's pretty concerning ...
> I'll try enabling various debug options to see if I can get a more useful
> bug report.
Note that the page table isolation (PTI) feature has a number of effects on perf
and on NMI handlers, so one of the things to try would be to disable PTI.
Thanks,
Ingo