Re: Linux 4.17-rc1 - kernel paging errors running x86 selftests

[Dave Hansen]

On 04/16/2018 10:56 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I don't see *why* it would be badly set up, and that test works fine
>> for me, though.
> 
> AHHAH!
> 
> I'm wrong. I can see it too. My desktop was running 18b7fd1c93e5 (my
> kernel from Saturday, I hadn't rebooted it since), but I had 4.17-rc1
> in kvmtool and on my laptop, and I see the problem in both cases.
> 
> So this came in recently, and I bet it's the global pages series from
> Dave Hansen, although there were a few other things that came in
> during the last day.

Joerg just found and fixed something that would be poked by the x86
selftests:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/16/230