On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:10:25PM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 06:50:23PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > [ 0.000000] ffffffffbce03f40: 0000000000000000 ... > > [ 0.000000] ffffffffbce03f48: ffffffffbc0001b5 (start_cpu+0x5/0x14) > > [ 0.000000] ffffffffbce03f50: ffffffffbc0001b5 (start_cpu+0x5/0x14) > > [ 0.000000] ffffffffbce03f58: 0000000000000000 ... > > [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.9.0-rc8+ (root@gondor) (gcc version 6.2.0 > > 20161109 (Debian 6.2.0-13) ) #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 12 18:36:48 CET 2016 > > Something funky is going on in the head code. It looks like start_cpu > is getting executed twice somehow. Need to do some more head > scratching...
I still can't figure out what could cause this, nor can I recreate it. Andy, any idea? I'm trying to figure out why a stack trace of the initial task, early in start_kernel(), would show start_cpu() on the stack *twice*. The start_cpu() entry on the stack at ffffffffbce03f50 is right where it's supposed to be. But then there's another start_cpu() entry at 0xffffffffbce03f48 which is pointed to by the frame pointer chain. I can't figure out where that one came from and why the stack is offset by a word, compared to all the other idle task stacks I've seen. Boris, what kind of CPU is it? -- Josh
