Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote: > Starting with v4.14-rc1 my box crashes during a reboot. All I get is > the following: > > [ 250.615793] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache > [ 250.635639] reboot: Restarting system > [ 250.639671] reboot: machine restart > [ 250.643842] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN > > Then nothing. No reboot, it just hangs there. > > I bisected it down to this commit: > > 660da7c9228f ("x86/mm: Enable CR4.PCIDE on supported systems") > > If I comment out the setting of X86_CR4_PCIDE in that commit, it boots > fine. But... > > I noticed that commit c7ad5ad29 ("x86/mm/64: Initialize CR4.PCIDE > early") moved the problem code from arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c to > arch/x86/mm/init.c > > If I comment it out in v4.14-rc1, it crashes on boot up. > > It appears that my box doesn't like having X86_CR4_PCIDE set. it causes > reboot to fail. But it also appears that setting that is required for > some other code to work.
IIRC, there was a problem in rc1, which should be resolved in newer rcs. If you need to run rc1, you can try to use the kernel parameter “nopcid". Nadav