linux-kernel - Re: mlockall(MCL_CURRENT) blocking infinitely

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Message-ID: <3f6f8ac5dd3c3f053c682e8fc408c85d7b3e93e0.camel@gmx.de>
Date:   Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:19:37 +0200
From:   Robert Stupp <snazy@....de>
To:     snazy@...zy.de, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Potyra, Stefan" <Stefan.Potyra@...ktrobit.com>
Subject: Re: mlockall(MCL_CURRENT) blocking infinitely

On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 13:59 +0200, Robert Stupp wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 13:50 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Fri 25-10-19 13:46:33, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > >
> I suspect, that it's something that's "special" on my machine. But
> I've
> got no clue what that might be. Do you think it makes sense to try
> with
> all the spectre/meltdown mitigations disabled? Or SMT disabled?
>

Bummer - booting the kernel with `mitigations=off` didn't help.