Re: PANIC: "Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI" starting from 5.17 on dual socket Intel Xeon Gold servers

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Mar 22 2022 - 03:12:56 EST


On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:37:37AM +0100, Jirka Hladky wrote:
> Cc: regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:29 AM Jirka Hladky <jhladky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Starting from kernel 5.17 (tested with rc2, rc4, rc7, rc8) we
> > experience kernel oops on Intel Xeon Gold dual-socket servers (2x Xeon
> > Gold 6126 CPU)
> >
> > Bellow is a backtrace and the dmesg log.
> >
> > I have trouble creating a simple reproducer - it happens at random
> > places when preparing the NAS benchmark to be run. The script creates
> > a bunch of directories, compiles the benchmark a start trial runs.
> >
> > Could you please help to narrow down the problem?

Can you use 'git bisect' to track down the kernel commit that caused
this problem?

thanks,

greg k-h