[vbox-dev] VM failure when 5-level page tables are enabled

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Thu Jul 15 00:30:15 GMT 2021


On 7/14/21 4:12 PM, Klaus Espenlaub wrote:
> patch to deal with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT see the ticket.
> 
> So far we have no clear reports of anyone running into actual 5-level page table 
> issues. None of the available logs are for hardware which has the feature. There 
> could be an (unrelated) issue, because we couldn't yet test on hardware which 
> supports 5-level PT.

Klaus,

That patch fixed my problem.

I did not have a 5-level problem. Everything was due to 
CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_KSTACK_OFFSET_DEFAULT being set.

Thanks for the fix.

Larry





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