linux-kernel - Re: KASLR causes intermittent boot failures on some systems

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Message-ID: <CAA9_cmcB2Ctxya6yNj6535WashWArsEr2kf1b3bq82=Dsy5fmA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 8 Apr 2017 00:02:06 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...il.com>
To:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
        thgarnie@...gle.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: KASLR causes intermittent boot failures on some systems

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 04/07/17 at 10:41am, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> commit 021182e52fe01 ("x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory
>> regions") causes some of my systems with persistent memory (whether real
>> or emulated) to fail to boot with a couple of different crash
>> signatures.  The first signature is a NMI watchdog lockup of all but 1
>> cpu, which causes much difficulty in extracting useful information from
>> the console.  The second variant is an invalid paging request, listed
>> below.
>>
>> On some systems, I haven't hit this problem at all.  Other systems
>> experience a failed boot maybe 20-30% of the time.  To reproduce it,
>> configure some emulated pmem on your system.  You can find directions
>> for that here: https://nvdimm.wiki.kernel.org/
>
> I got below problem when configure ndctl, didn't find a package named
> libkmod:
>
> ~~~~~~~~~
> configure: error: Package requirements (libkmod) were not met:
>
> No package 'libkmod' found

kmod-devel provides that dependency. Otherwise ndctl is included in
Fedora or you can find EPEL 7 packages here:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/djbw/ndctl/