On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Corbin Bird <corbinb...@charter.net> wrote:
> FYI : > > Did the microcode update, compiled and installed the 4.9.101 kernel with > it. > After rebooting, I started having kernel hard lock problems. > > Before compiling / installing kernel 4.9.102, I made an addition to the > CFLAGS var in make.conf : -mno-lwp > ( 'lwp' is 'Light Weight Profiling' ) > > No kernel hard locks after the reboot. > > Lesson Learned : > The kernel needs to be compiled, installed, system rebooted, > re-compiled, re-installed and re-booted again. > Otherwise the kernel compile process doesn't adjust to the removal of > instruction sets. > The 'make.conf' entry is to catch any other uses, system wide. > > > Config Info : > > Using 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources' USE flags : experimental modules symlink > > -march=bdver2 > > kernel .config settings : > # CONFIG_PROFILING is not set > CONFIG_HAVE_OPROFILE=y > CONFIG_OPROFILE_NMI_TIMER=y > CONFIG_KPROBES=y > > For me dmesg says; [ 1.538275] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06000852 but i still have lwp in /proc/cpuinfo. Are you at 0x06000852 ?
