Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Sep 2017 20:29:52 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: Current mainline git (24e700e291d52bd2) hangs when building e.g. perf |
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On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 11:26:27AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But the fact that that fixes it for you does indicate that it's not > just a stale TLB entry or something, it really is some CPU using page > tables after they have been free'd and been re-allocated to something > else (and *then* they may point to garbage).
Cool, I was trying to think of a good use case how we'd hit that. I guess you just gave one. :)
Thx.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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