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PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 6:49 pm    Post subject: Stability issuse with >=gentoo-sources:4.16.11 Reply with quote

Hi, I have stability issue with gentoo-sources-4.16.11 and newer. System get froze at random moments, but higher load cause it faster. Yesterday system (gentoo-sources-4.6.11) get crashed first time while watching youtube, second time after few hours of playing factorio. Today I was testing gentoo-sources-4.17.1, rebuilding libreoffice doesn't crash it, but valley benchmark crashed it in less than minute. Gentoo-sources-4.16.10 works great, last weekend I spent playing factorio and I didn't get any crash, now I running valley benchmark for about 3 hours and still it's ok.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 1:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is the problem reproducible with a vanilla kernel? If yes, which patch in the range (v4.16.10, v4.16.11] causes the problem? Git bisect can save you considerable time if you need to test to find the answer.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used git bisect and I think I found it. It was bit tricky because when system is running I don't know if it's because kernel is ok or it didn't crash yet.
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95271aeb93d4681c65e2f94969b23ef6070367a6 is the first bad commit
commit 95271aeb93d4681c65e2f94969b23ef6070367a6
Author: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date:   Thu May 10 20:42:48 2018 +0200

    x86/speculation, KVM: Implement support for VIRT_SPEC_CTRL/LS_CFG
   
    commit 47c61b3955cf712cadfc25635bf9bc174af030ea upstream
   
    Add the necessary logic for supporting the emulated VIRT_SPEC_CTRL MSR to
    x86_virt_spec_ctrl().  If either X86_FEATURE_LS_CFG_SSBD or
    X86_FEATURE_VIRT_SPEC_CTRL is set then use the new guest_virt_spec_ctrl
    argument to check whether the state must be modified on the host. The
    update reuses speculative_store_bypass_update() so the ZEN-specific sibling
    coordination can be reused.
   
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

:040000 040000 1a076b17c0c8d0bf255c9aba856f1b75791deeb1 82bd77c23c8e1ade512f4afa5ce021cbad6b2ae8 M   arch
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, tracing bugs is difficult without a reliable reproducer. In this case, I am a bit doubtful that this is the correct result. Your original problem report makes no mention of any of the kernel functionality that I expect the cited patch would modify.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oops, when I was writing report I mentioned that factorio and valley benchmark was run in virtual machine (qemu + kvm + windows 10) but later I remove too much and I accidently remove this sentence too.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In that case, your result seems reasonable. Please report the problem upstream, with as much detail as you can provide.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2018 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you get any response from upstream on this problem? My own gaming VM has started to hang and I think it coincided with the microcode update for SSBD mitigation.

How do you reliably cause the hang on your system?
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