------- Comment From [email protected] 2018-09-05 05:06 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #8)
> @IBM: Even if we do not have NVMe devices in our Z machine (hence we cannot
> test this on s390x by ourselves) it would be good and helpful if you can
> share a description / or some steps of a potential test case.
> This would help judging the regression risk in case of an SRU to 18.04 (and
> is needed for a SRU anyway).

The trigger is a PCI function whose driver requests more interrupts than
the architectural maximum. Currently this is only possible with a
machine that supports 64 CPUs (or more) with a NVMe function attached.
Note that the LPAR does not have to use >=64 CPUs since the NVMe driver
uses num_possible_cpus() which is resolved to the machine maximum on
s390 (since all CPUs are hot-pluggable). The oops happens after the
driver calls pci_alloc_irq_vectors during device probing - so most
likely the system will panic during boot.

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