Hi all,
We are testing the patches for Spectre and Meltdown under OS derived from RH7.2,
and hit by a hard LOCKUP panic under a x86_64 host environment.
The hard LOCKUP can be reproduced, and it will gone if we disable ibpb by
writing 0 to ibpb_enabled file, and it will appear again when we enabl
On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 17:00 +0800, Hou Tao wrote:
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> So has anyone encountered a similar problem before, and any suggestions
> and directions for the hard LOCKUP problems ?
Arjan, what is the Intel recommendation here?
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Hello everyone,
On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 01:56:08PM +, Van De Ven, Arjan wrote:
> well first of all don't use IBRS, use retpoline
This issue triggers in the IBPB code during user to user context
switch and IBPB is still needed there no matter if kernel is using
retpolines or if it uses kernel
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