Re: printk.time causes rare kernel boot hangs

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 04:53:48PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 03:09:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 02:03:48PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 02:53:20PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > > Ooooh, what qemu version do you have? There were some really dodgy
> > > > reports all around self modifying code, all reported on 7.2, that seems
> > > > to have gone away with 8.
> > > 
> > > > Now, all of them were using TCG, and I think you're using KVM.
> > > 
> > > I'm using qemu-system-x86-8.0.0-4.fc39.x86_64 with KVM.  The host
> > > kernel is 6.4.0-0.rc5.41.fc39.x86_64.
> > > 
> > > > I've at least 36000 cycles and still nothing :-(, let me go try your
> > > > .config.
> > > 
> > > I can definitely reproduce this with your config (but AMD host), so
> > > that's odd.  Let me try with Intel hardware and your config.  You
> > > really should see this with only a few thousands iterations.
> > 
> > Yeah, I'm running on some ancient ivb-ep, let me try on the alderlake. I
> > don't really have AMD machines at hand :-/
> 
> Using v6.4-rc6-37-gb6dad5178cea, and 36000+ cycles on the ADL (affine to
> big cores) later and nothing :-(

So I have just this minute reproduced it on Intel, after around ~2000
iterations.

On this machine I am using:

Host kernel:  6.3.7-200.fc38.x86_64
Guest kernel: git commit fb054096aea0576f0c0a61c598e5e9676443ee86
Guest config: defconfig + kvm_guest.config + CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT=y
QEMU:         qemu-system-x86-8.0.0-4.fc39.x86_64 (using kvm_intel)
Hardware:     Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10850H CPU @ 2.70GHz

> Clearly I'm doing something wrong.

I'm suspecting version of qemu may have something to do with it, but
honestly I don't know.  Which qemu are you using?

I'll now try with upstream qemu from git in case there's something
about the Fedora qemu.

Rich.

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