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SubjectRe: tip -ENOBOOT - bisected to locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Implement fast refcount overflow protection

* Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Take 2 of KVM bisect as you work fingered $subject.  Take 1 was stymied
> by build dependencies (aa5d1b81, df340524) which I foolishly tried to
> skip, leading git bisect to end up handing me a list of commits that
> might be busted.  During take 2, I added those two as required.
>
> Symptom is a few splats as below, with box finally hanging.  Network
> comes up, but neither ssh nor console login is possible.

Just to double check, does the patch below also cure the regression?
If we don't find the bug it might be safer than a full revert.

Thanks,

Ingo

arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index d04809921993..3b83ef8f1e9b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ config X86
select ARCH_HAS_KCOV if X86_64
select ARCH_HAS_MMIO_FLUSH
select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API if X86_64
- select ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
+# select ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE if X86_64
select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
select ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
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