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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2018 23:33:06 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>
To:        Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Trap 12 in vm_page_alloc_after()
Message-ID:  <23551.27650.73879.929594@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20181129001904.GA63393@raichu>
References:  <23538.4310.710700.401331@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <20181119050944.GW2378@kib.kiev.ua> <23547.30738.149260.454185@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <20181129001904.GA63393@raichu>

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<<On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 19:19:04 -0500, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> said:

> If you're using a Skylake, I suspect that you can set the
> hw.skz63_enable tunable to 0 as a workaround, assuming you're not using
> any code that relies on Intel TSX.  (I don't think there's anything in
> the base system that does.)  There are some details in
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18374

It is definitely a Skylake (although it took searching to find that
out, since we don't identify processors by Intel codename).  I've
set that tunable, but I won't know whether it helps until the next
(scheduled or unscheduled) reboot.

-GAWollman




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