linux-kernel - Re: kvm splat in mmu_spte_clear_track

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Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 14:59:23 +0200
From:   Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Bernhard Held <berny156@....de>, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kvm splat in mmu_spte_clear_track_bits

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 02:45:41PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> [Put more people to Cc, sorry for growing too much...]

We're all interested in 4.13.0 not crashing on us, so that's ok.

> On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:19:13 +0200,
> Bernhard Held wrote:
> > 
> > On 08/28/2017 at 06:56 PM, Nadav Amit wrote:
> > > Don’t blame me for the TLB stuff... My money is on aac2fea94f7a .
> > 
> > Amit, thanks for your courage to expose your patch!
> > 
> > I'm more and more confident that aac2fea94f7a is the culprit.  Maybe it
> > just accelerates the triggering of the splash.  To be more sure the
> > kernel needs to be tested for a couple of days.  It would be great if
> > others could assist in testing aac2fea94f7a.
> 
> I'm testing with the revert for a while and it seems working.

With nothing but aac2fea94f7a reverted, no explosions for me either.

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