On Wed 2018-09-19 15:37:15, Chen Yu wrote: > From: Zhimin Gu <kookoo...@intel.com> > > On 32bit systems, nosave_regions(non RAM areas) located between > max_low_pfn and max_pfn are not excluded from hibernation snapshot > currently, which may result in a machine check exception when > trying to access these unsafe regions during hibernation: > > [ 612.800453] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint > [ 612.805786] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 5 Bank > 6: fe00000000801136 > [ 612.814344] mce: [Hardware Error]: RIP !INEXACT! 60:<00000000d90be566> > {swsusp_save+0x436/0x560} > [ 612.823167] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 1f5939fe276 ADDR dd000000 MISC > 30e0000086 > [ 612.830677] mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:306c3 TIME 1529487426 > SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode 24 > [ 612.839581] mce: [Hardware Error]: Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii' > [ 612.846394] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Processor context corrupt > [ 612.853380] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal machine check > [ 612.858978] Kernel Offset: 0x18000000 from 0xc1000000 (relocation range: > 0xc0000000-0xf7ffdfff) > > This is because on 32bit systems, pages above max_low_pfn are regarded > as high memeory, and accessing unsafe pages might cause expected MCE. > On the problematic 32bit system, there are reserved memory above low > memory, which triggered the MCE: > > Fix this problem by changing pfn limit from max_low_pfn to max_pfn. > This fix does not impact 64bit system because on 64bit max_low_pfn > is the same as max_pfn. > > Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz>
Thanks. I think this is nasty enough to add Cc: stable. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html