On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 9:11 AM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 7:27 AM Holger Hoffstätte > <holger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 2023-07-06 00:55, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 3:37 PM Holger Hoffstätte > > > <holger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>> Jiri, Holger, would you be able to try > > >>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230705171213.2843068-2-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > >>> and see if your issues still exist? > > >> > > >> Just in time! Not 2 minutes ago I finished rebuilding 6.4.2 + the last version of > > >> your patches on a second machine (old Intel Sandy Bridge workstation) to be my > > >> crash test dummy. I removed the BROKEN dependency in mm/Kconfig, manually set > > >> PER_VMA_LOCK=y and ... it seems to work?! Boots fine, Firefox seems to work > > >> (but no exhaustive tests yet). I will also rerun a few reboot laps, just to > > >> exercise this a bit harder and see if something comes up. > > >> > > >> Tomorrow I'll also try again on my Zen2 Thinkpad and will report back. > > >> > > >> Fingers crossed! > > > > > > Thanks! This is promising. > > > > Indeed it was, and still is. :) > > > > This morning I wrangled 6.4.2 + v4 of the patches into all my machines, > > enabled PER_VMA_LOCK=y, removed BROKEN and so far everything has been humming > > along just fine. One machine has been compiling for several hours without issue. > > My Zen2 thinkpad - which was previously really unhappy with enabled PER_VMA_LOCK - > > has booted a few times without hiccup, and Firefox has been happily roaming the > > interwebs for several hours as well. \o/ > > This is great! Thanks so much for verifying! > Andrew, if it's not too late, maybe we can drop the BROKEN dependency > now that we have this confirmation? Liam pointed me to another possible issue with per-VMA locks due to the recent changes in stack expansion locking rules. So, it's probably safer to keep it marked BROKEN. I'll post a simple fix for that shortly. > > > > > cheers > > Holger
