On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 1 Dec 2017, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > > This is obviously a hack. Either the patch should be adjusted back to > > the version I sent or trap_init should forcibly initialize all PMDs > > by something like __set_fixmap(..., __mkpte(0)); or however it's spelled. > > I split it because the whole thing crashed when I kept the loop you had > because it tried to allocate stuff. Had no time to figure out why, so I > went the lazy way of making it "work".
[ 0.000000] dump_stack+0x85/0xc5 [ 0.000000] warn_alloc+0x114/0x1c0 [ 0.000000] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x1089/0x10d0 [ 0.000000] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x2e8/0x370 [ 0.000000] __get_free_pages+0x10/0x40 [ 0.000000] kpti_shadow_pagetable_walk+0x2b2/0x3e0 [ 0.000000] kpti_add_user_map+0xfe/0x330 [ 0.000000] kpti_add_mapping_cpu_entry+0x5a/0x100 [ 0.000000] trap_init+0x2c/0x7b [ 0.000000] start_kernel+0x24c/0x497 [ 0.000000] secondary_startup_64+0xa5/0xb0 Cute, isn't it? And then further down the line it triplefaults of course.

