On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 9:24 AM Kamil Paral <kpa...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:06 PM Brandon Nielsen <niels...@jetfuse.net> wrote:
>>
>> Recently I've had cause to run memtest on some relatively modern systems
>> (Haswell, Haswell refresh, and Kaby Lake R). On all three systems the
>> memtest86+ provided with the Fedora Workstation Live media failed.
>>
>> On the Haswell and Haswell refresh machines it froze shortly after
>> starting. It didn't matter if the test was run in 'Safe Mode', or with SMP.
>
>
> I can confirm the issues. I have Haswell (i5 4570):
> * With F32 Workstation Beta, memtest freezes at 35% (of the first test) 
> reliably if I keep the defaults (which defaults to SMP:disabled) or force 
> safe mode with F1. When I force SMP using F2, it reboots quickly.
> * With F31 Workstation, memtest reboots at 35% (of the first test) reliably 
> if I keep the defaults (SMP: disabled) or force safe mode. When I force SMP, 
> it reboots quickly.
> * With F30 Workstation, memtest seems to work fine (I waited only a few 
> minutes) in all configurations.
>
> With a libvirt VM, memtest seems to work fine (I waited only a few minutes) 
> with safe mode with F30-F32, but reboots immediately in default configuration 
> or SMP (F30-F32).
>
> I used to have problems with memtest when I forced SMP in the past, but never 
> with the default or safe mode configuration. Something changed recently (F31) 
> for the worse. Interestingly, memtest always reports the same version (5.01) 
> so I wonder what affects this.
>

gcc version?


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Chris Murphy
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