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Message-ID: <20160317183038.GG1681@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:30:38 +0000
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@...hat.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Oops from calibrate_delay_is_known on qemu machine with Linux
v4.5-1523-g271ecc5253e2
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:54:36PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> We've had a report [1] of the mainline kernel crashing on a single-cpu
> QEMU machine (not kvm) in Fedora. It looks as if the emulated machine
> is failing to provide a TSC and the calibrate_delay_is_known function
> is passing NULL to cpumask_any_but for the mask parameter. At least
> that's all I've been able to discern thus far.
>
> I was wondering if you had any insight into this issue, given your
> recent commit to change calibrate_delay_is_known to use
> topology_core_cpumask. The backtrace is below.
Thanks for reporting this upstream Josh.
I've added to the bug a simple test script that reproduces the issue,
not 100% reliably by any means, but some of the time. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318596#c6
Rich.
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