On Fri, 15 Dec 2017, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> I've built this exact kernel and here is __switch_to disasm:
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dvyukov/8137559f7da08fbe32f9018972a4498c/raw/0ef2abf723b117f0d0f0306fd50e216d50c5cecb/gistfile1.txt
>
> __switch_to+0x95b seems to point to (?):
>
> ffffffff81252f6b: 0f 1f 44 00 00 nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
>
> which is branch target alignment nop.
Which is a place holder for a trace point as Linus pointed out and the
'faulting' instruction which is int3 shows that there is a tracepoint
install/remove in progress. Are your test cases fiddling with tracepoints?
Thanks,
tglx
