* Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Benjamin Gilbert wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 10:20:16AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > Ick, not good, any chance you can test 4.15-rc6 to verify that the issue > > > is also there (or not)? > > > > I haven't been able to reproduce this on 4.15-rc6. > > Hmm. So we need to scrutinize the subtle differences between 4.15-rc6 and > 4.14.11....
So here's a list of candidate 'missing commits': triton:~/tip> git log --oneline --no-merges WIP.x86/pti..linus arch/x86 | grep -viE 'apic|irq|vector|probe|kvm|timer|rdt|crypto|platform|tsc|insn|xen|mpx|umip|efi|build|parav|SEV|kmemch|power|stacktrace|unwind|kmmio|dma|boot|PCI|resource|init|virt|kexec|unused|perf|5-level' 10a7e9d84915: Do not hash userspace addresses in fault handlers f5b5fab1780c: x86/decoder: Fix and update the opcodes map 88edb57d1e0b: x86/vdso: Change time() prototype to match __vdso_time() d553d03f7057: x86: Fix Sparse warnings about non-static functions f4e9b7af0cd5: x86/microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading e3811a3f74bd: x86/cpufeatures: Make X86_BUG_FXSAVE_LEAK detectable in CPUID on AMD 328b4ed93b69: x86: don't hash faulting address in oops printout b562c171cf01: locking/refcounts: Do not force refcount_t usage as GPL-only export 1501899a898d: mm: fix device-dax pud write-faults triggered by get_user_pages() 55d2d0ad2fb4: x86/idt: Load idt early in start_secondary 9d0b62328d34: x86/tlb: Disable interrupts when changing CR4 0c3292ca8025: x86/tlb: Refactor CR4 setting and shadow write 12a78d43de76: x86/decoder: Add new TEST instruction pattern 30bb9811856f: x86/topology: Avoid wasting 128k for package id array 252714155f04: x86/acpi: Handle SCI interrupts above legacy space gracefully be62a3204406: x86/mm: Limit mmap() of /dev/mem to valid physical addresses 1e0f25dbf246: x86/mm: Prevent non-MAP_FIXED mapping across DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW border fcdaf842bd8f: mm, sparse: do not swamp log with huge vmemmap allocation failures 353b1e7b5859: x86/mm: set fields in deferred pages 7d5905dc14a8: x86 / CPU: Always show current CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo 4d2dc2cc766c: fcntl: don't cap l_start and l_end values for F_GETLK64 in compat syscall b29c6ef7bb12: x86 / CPU: Avoid unnecessary IPIs in arch_freq_get_on_cpu() 450cbdd0125c: locking/x86: Use LOCK ADD for smp_mb() instead of MFENCE 9f08890ab906: x86/pvclock: add setter for pvclock_pvti_cpu0_va c5e260890d5f: x86/mm: Remove unnecessary TLB flush for SME in-place encryption 4a75aeacda3c: ACPI / APEI: Remove arch_apei_flush_tlb_one() e4dca7b7aa08: treewide: Fix function prototypes for module_param_call() 7ed4325a44ea: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Make panic reporting to be more useful 6aa7de059173: locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 506458efaf15: locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() 0cfe5b5fc027: x86: Use ARRAY_SIZE c1bd743e54cd: arch/x86: remove redundant null checks before kmem_cache_destroy a4c1887d4c14: locking/arch: Remove dummy arch_{read,spin,write}_lock_flags() implementations 0160fb177d48: locking/arch: Remove dummy arch_{read,spin,write}_relax() implementations 19c60923010b: locking/arch, x86: Add __down_read_killable() 39208aa7ecb7: locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Enable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT 564c9cc84e2a: locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Use unique .text section for refcount exceptions 30c23f29d2d5: locking/x86: Use named operands in rwsem.h Note the exclusion regex pattern which might be overly aggressive. Taking out the commits that should have no real effect leads to this list: f4e9b7af0cd5: x86/microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading e3811a3f74bd: x86/cpufeatures: Make X86_BUG_FXSAVE_LEAK detectable in CPUID on AMD 1501899a898d: mm: fix device-dax pud write-faults triggered by get_user_pages() 55d2d0ad2fb4: x86/idt: Load idt early in start_secondary 9d0b62328d34: x86/tlb: Disable interrupts when changing CR4 0c3292ca8025: x86/tlb: Refactor CR4 setting and shadow write 252714155f04: x86/acpi: Handle SCI interrupts above legacy space gracefully be62a3204406: x86/mm: Limit mmap() of /dev/mem to valid physical addresses 1e0f25dbf246: x86/mm: Prevent non-MAP_FIXED mapping across DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW border fcdaf842bd8f: mm, sparse: do not swamp log with huge vmemmap allocation failures 353b1e7b5859: x86/mm: set fields in deferred pages 7d5905dc14a8: x86 / CPU: Always show current CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo 4d2dc2cc766c: fcntl: don't cap l_start and l_end values for F_GETLK64 in compat syscall b29c6ef7bb12: x86 / CPU: Avoid unnecessary IPIs in arch_freq_get_on_cpu() 450cbdd0125c: locking/x86: Use LOCK ADD for smp_mb() instead of MFENCE 6aa7de059173: locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 506458efaf15: locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE() a4c1887d4c14: locking/arch: Remove dummy arch_{read,spin,write}_lock_flags() implementations 0160fb177d48: locking/arch: Remove dummy arch_{read,spin,write}_relax() implementations 19c60923010b: locking/arch, x86: Add __down_read_killable() 39208aa7ecb7: locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Enable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT 564c9cc84e2a: locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Use unique .text section for refcount exceptions 30c23f29d2d5: locking/x86: Use named operands in rwsem.h And taking out the locking commits which should have no effect on x86 ordering gives this (possibly overly aggressively trimmed) list: f4e9b7af0cd5: x86/microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading e3811a3f74bd: x86/cpufeatures: Make X86_BUG_FXSAVE_LEAK detectable in CPUID on AMD 1501899a898d: mm: fix device-dax pud write-faults triggered by get_user_pages() 55d2d0ad2fb4: x86/idt: Load idt early in start_secondary 9d0b62328d34: x86/tlb: Disable interrupts when changing CR4 0c3292ca8025: x86/tlb: Refactor CR4 setting and shadow write 252714155f04: x86/acpi: Handle SCI interrupts above legacy space gracefully be62a3204406: x86/mm: Limit mmap() of /dev/mem to valid physical addresses 1e0f25dbf246: x86/mm: Prevent non-MAP_FIXED mapping across DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW border fcdaf842bd8f: mm, sparse: do not swamp log with huge vmemmap allocation failures 353b1e7b5859: x86/mm: set fields in deferred pages 7d5905dc14a8: x86 / CPU: Always show current CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo 4d2dc2cc766c: fcntl: don't cap l_start and l_end values for F_GETLK64 in compat syscall b29c6ef7bb12: x86 / CPU: Avoid unnecessary IPIs in arch_freq_get_on_cpu() 450cbdd0125c: locking/x86: Use LOCK ADD for smp_mb() instead of MFENCE I think microcode and DAX changes are probably innocent, the IDT loading should only affect SMP bootstrap, and the ACPI irq, deferred-pages, cpufreq-info and sparsemem fixes are probably unrelated as well. This leaves: 9d0b62328d34: x86/tlb: Disable interrupts when changing CR4 0c3292ca8025: x86/tlb: Refactor CR4 setting and shadow write be62a3204406: x86/mm: Limit mmap() of /dev/mem to valid physical addresses 1e0f25dbf246: x86/mm: Prevent non-MAP_FIXED mapping across DEFAULT_MAP_WINDOW border 4d2dc2cc766c: fcntl: don't cap l_start and l_end values for F_GETLK64 in compat syscall 450cbdd0125c: locking/x86: Use LOCK ADD for smp_mb() instead of MFENCE These will cherry-pick cleanly, so it would be nice to test them on top of of the -stable kernel that fails: for N in 450cbdd0125c 4d2dc2cc766c 1e0f25dbf246 be62a3204406 0c3292ca8025 9d0b62328d34; do git cherry-pick $N; done if this brute-force approach resolves the problem then we have a shorter list of fixes to look at. If it doesn't fix the problem then the problem is either: - fixed by one of the other commits - or is fixed by one of the non-x86 upstream commits (of which there are over 10,000) - or the problem is non-deterministic, - or the problem is build layout dependent, - (or it's something I missed to consider) Thanks, Ingo