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SubjectRe: Oops from calibrate_delay_is_known on qemu machine with Linux v4.5-1523-g271ecc5253e2
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:54:36PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> We've had a report [1] of the mainline kernel crashing on a single-cpu
> QEMU machine (not kvm) in Fedora. It looks as if the emulated machine
> is failing to provide a TSC and the calibrate_delay_is_known function
> is passing NULL to cpumask_any_but for the mask parameter. At least
> that's all I've been able to discern thus far.
>
> I was wondering if you had any insight into this issue, given your
> recent commit to change calibrate_delay_is_known to use
> topology_core_cpumask. The backtrace is below.

Thanks for reporting this upstream Josh.

I've added to the bug a simple test script that reproduces the issue,
not 100% reliably by any means, but some of the time. See:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318596#c6

Rich.

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