On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:18:14 +0200 Benoit Panizzon
<[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> I suspect it could be a problem affecting only that specific CPU
indeed
> hitting an invalid opcode.
[...]

I don't think that's what's happening.  The kernel intentionally has an
invalid instruction on each assertion failure path, because this is
smaller than a subroutine call and saves more CPU state.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Time is nature's way of making sure that
everything doesn't happen at once.

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