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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@collabora.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	kernel-build-reports@lists.linaro.org,
	Matt Hart <matthew.hart@linaro.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stable/linux-4.14.y boot: 108 boots: 0 failed, 107 passed with 1 conflict (v4.14.11)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 10:48:23 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1801031046270.1957@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de09d482-9cf1-e695-ee57-f91e2277c8de@collabora.com>

On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Guillaume Tucker wrote:

> On 03/01/18 03:11, kernelci.org bot wrote:
> > stable/linux-4.14.y boot: 108 boots: 0 failed, 107 passed with 1 conflict
> > (v4.14.11)
> > 
> > Full Boot Summary:
> > https://kernelci.org/boot/all/job/stable/branch/linux-4.14.y/kernel/v4.14.11/
> > Full Build Summary:
> > https://kernelci.org/build/stable/branch/linux-4.14.y/kernel/v4.14.11/
> > 
> > Tree: stable
> > Branch: linux-4.14.y
> > Git Describe: v4.14.11
> > Git Commit: 0d59679df5b53755c00ea0292df696f97bfc950d
> > Git URL:
> > http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git
> > Tested: 59 unique boards, 23 SoC families, 16 builds out of 185
> > 
> > Boot Regressions Detected:
> > 
> > x86:
> > 
> >      x86_64_defconfig:
> >          qemu:
> >              lab-mhart: new failure (last pass: v4.14.10)
> > 
> > Conflicting Boot Failure Detected: (These likely are not failures as other
> > labs are reporting PASS. Needs review.)
> > 
> > x86:
> > 
> >      x86_64_defconfig:
> >          qemu:
> >              lab-mhart: FAIL
> >              lab-collabora: PASS
> 
> Well, it turns out this is not exactly a conflict as there's a
> subtle difference between the qemu devices in lab-mhart and in
> lab-collabora.  The ones in lab-collabora are configured to use
> KVM, and it looks like the ones in lab-mhart aren't.
> 
> So this job with KVM enabled passes in lab-collabora:
> 
>   https://lava.collabora.co.uk/scheduler/job/1032358
> 
> but it fails if I tell LAVA (qemu) to disable KVM:
> 
>   https://lava.collabora.co.uk/scheduler/job/1032359
> 
> with the same panic as in lab-mhart.  It seems like it's failing
> to return from an interrupt:
> 
>   http://lava.streamtester.net/scheduler/job/87308
> 
>   [    2.678828]  ? native_iret+0x7/0x7
>   [    2.679208] WARNING: can't dereference iret registers at 00000000ffc66068
> for ip page_fault+0x11/0x60
> 
> This triggered an automated bisection on kernelci.org, please see
> the results below.
> 
> I may run another bisection with this config enabled earlier in
> the history to track down the actual change in the code that
> introduced the issue, let me know if it's worth doing.

No, because before that commit not all pieces are in place.

Can you please try the failing kernel with pti=off on the command line?

I'll start a test instance here as well.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-03  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5a4c49c8.50b91c0a.2b051.322e@mx.google.com>
2018-01-03  9:44 ` stable/linux-4.14.y boot: 108 boots: 0 failed, 107 passed with 1 conflict (v4.14.11) Guillaume Tucker
2018-01-03  9:48   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2018-01-03  9:55     ` Guillaume Tucker
2018-01-03 10:36       ` Thomas Gleixner
2018-01-03 11:14         ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-01-03 19:55           ` Thomas Gleixner

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