linux-kernel - Re: 4.5.0+ panic when setup loop device

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Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:26:33 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Xiong Zhou <jencce.kernel@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@...e.com>
Subject: Re: 4.5.0+ panic when setup loop device

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:21:24AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > Could you please try? I'm not sure how this would explain your loop
> > device bug fail, but it certainly pointed towards broken.
> 
> It definitely does not explain it. The wreckage that topo stuff causes is that
> it disables a cpu, but that really is not a reason for block/loop to explode.

Right. Sadly I could not reproduce that error on my machine. But we can
at least start by fixing the 'obvious' problems and then maybe we get
more clues ;-)