Re: perf: perf_fuzzer quickly locks up on 4.15-rc7

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:05:51PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 10:56:52AM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2018, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > > So CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION=y and booting with "pti=off" makes it
> > > 'work', right?
> > 
> > yes.  Previously I was changing CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION and 
> > recompiling, but just now I booted with it set to yes and pti=off and the 
> > fuzzer has been running fine for a half hour (usually it crashes in under 
> > 5 minutes).
> > 
> > I did see these in the logs which I don't think I've seen before.
> > 
> > WARNING: stack recursion on stack type 2
> > WARNING: can't dereference iret registers at 000000000783fea8 for ip paranoid_entry+0x2e/0x90
> > WARNING: can't dereference registers at 00000000f0698d17 for ip paranoid_entry+0x4c/0x90
> > WARNING: stack going in the wrong direction? ip=native_sched_clock+0x9/0x90
> 
> I've seen that last one, but not the ones before. Josh, this isn't
> healty, right?  :-)

Looks like some funky things may be happening on the stack there, though
we have seen some issues related to ORC getting confused by paravirt
patching.  I'm a bit swamped at the moment but I'll look deeper as time
permits...

-- 
Josh