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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:49:08 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>, Elliott.Rabe@dell.com
Cc:        Eric.Van.Gyzen@dell.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, truckman@FreeBSD.org, markj@FreeBSD.org, alc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Stale memory during post fork cow pmap update
Message-ID:  <aadcb842-fb07-e856-e525-2e562d5a9e2d@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180213133010.GD94212@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <5A7E7F2B.80900@dell.com> <20180210111848.GL33564@kib.kiev.ua> <5A7F6A7C.80607@dell.com> <20180210225608.GM33564@kib.kiev.ua> <5A82AB7C.6090404@dell.com> <20180213133010.GD94212@kib.kiev.ua>

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On 2/13/2018 8:30 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> Apparently Ryzen CPUs are able to demonstrate it quite reliably with the
> python driver for the samba build.  It was very surprising to me, esp.
> because I tried to understand the Ryzen bug for the whole last week and
> thought that it is more likely CPU store/load inconsistency than a software
> thing.  See https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225584.
Just tested on an AMD EPYC 7281 (16/32 cores), and it runs into this bug
every time on the samba build.  Applying the referenced patch fixes the
problem, at least I was able to test 4 builds in a row without issue.

	---Mike


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