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If I'm able to reproduce, > > I'll try recommended workarounds and report as well. > > I'll venture a guess here and say that Matt's reproducer won't trigger on your > machines. and you're right :( > > Just to rule out any other issues which got fixed in the meantime, can you try > mainline Linux and see if you can reproduce your observation with it? that'll be very complicated in production.. it'd help a lot if we could reproduce it in lab again.. I guess we'll add more windows guests and more load in them and see if we can reproduce it in lab.. > > If so, you could share your crash core along with debug kernels yadda yadda so > that I can poke at it. > > And before you do, make sure you have the latest BIOS and microcode installed on > that machine. > > Also, where can I find full dmesg and /proc/cpuinfo from those machines which > trigger this? I'll gather it all and put it on storage to download tomorrow. cheers nik > > Thx. > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette > -- Ing. Nikola CIPRICH technický ředitel +420 591 166 214 +420 777 093 799 nikola.ciprich@linuxbox.cz www.linuxbox.cz