Re: printk.time causes rare kernel boot hangs

[Peter Zijlstra]

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 :-/