linux-kernel - Re: Kernel crash while doing chroot'ed grub2-mkconfig on qemu-emulated Nehalem CPU since late November 6.13 snapshot

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Message-ID: <ef28883a944ea30e75f596c43ea5a1034b670648.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:55:43 -0800
From: Adam Williamson <awilliam@...hat.com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jforbes@...hat.com, mcgrof@...nel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel crash while doing chroot'ed grub2-mkconfig on
 qemu-emulated Nehalem CPU since late November 6.13 snapshot

On Mon, 2025-01-13 at 11:16 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sun, 2025-01-12 at 10:47 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > 
> > > I don't think that CPU flavour is important here. I'll greatly appreciate
> > > your testing.
> > 
> > Update - I tried doing a quick build yesterday but the patch doesn't
> > apply cleanly against our current Fedora Rawhide kernel. I'll look at
> > it again tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.
> 
> OK, I've got a test build working now. Looks like `struct execmem_area
> *area;` is not in Linus' current tree, I guess it's from your branch or
> something? Fortunately I just had to drop that line from the patch and
> it applies fine.

OK, so good news: initial testing of that patch (the
`get_vm_area_page_order(vm) + PAGE_SHIFT` one) looks good. I've run it
through 40 installs so far without a hang. Just as a sanity check, I
also ran the non-patched kernel through 10 installs on the same openQA
instance and it hung four times.

I'll run some more cycles tomorrow to be sure, but it looks good.
Thanks!
-- 
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