Re: printk.time causes rare kernel boot hangs

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jun 14 2023 - 10:54:04 EST


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 :-(

Clearly I'm doing something wrong.