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SubjectRe: KASLR causes intermittent boot failures on some systems
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Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> writes:

> On 04/07/17 at 10:41am, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> commit 021182e52fe01 ("x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory
>> regions") causes some of my systems with persistent memory (whether real
>> or emulated) to fail to boot with a couple of different crash
>> signatures. The first signature is a NMI watchdog lockup of all but 1
>> cpu, which causes much difficulty in extracting useful information from
>> the console. The second variant is an invalid paging request, listed
>> below.
>>
>> On some systems, I haven't hit this problem at all. Other systems
>> experience a failed boot maybe 20-30% of the time. To reproduce it,
>> configure some emulated pmem on your system. You can find directions
>> for that here: https://nvdimm.wiki.kernel.org/
>
> I got below problem when configure ndctl, didn't find a package named
> libkmod:

Sorry, you can skip the ndctl step altogether. This is emulated pmem,
so the setting won't stick anyway.

-Jeff

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