Re: 32-bit PTI with THP = userspace corruption

From: Meelis Roos
Date: Fri Aug 31 2018 - 00:24:35 EST


> > I am seeing userland corruption and application crashes on multiple
> > 32-bit machines with 4.19-rc1+git. The machines vary: PII, PIII, P4.
> > They are all Intel. AMD Duron/Athlon/AthlonMP have been fine in my tests
> > so far (may be configuration dependent).
>
> Thanks for the report! I'll try to reproduce the problem tomorrow and
> investigate it. Can you please check if any of the kernel configurations
> that show the bug has CONFIG_X86_PAE set? If not, can you please test
> if enabling this option still triggers the problem?

Will check, but out of my memery there were 2 G3 HP Proliants that did
not fit into the pattern (problem did not appear). I have more than 4G
RAM in those and HIGHMEM_4G there, maybe that's it?

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