Re: [Beowulf] RHEL7 kernel update for L1TF vulnerability breaks RDMA

2018-09-10 Thread Chris Samuel
On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 10:41:24 AM AEST Kilian Cavalotti wrote: > Last I heard, the fix will be in 862.14.1 to be released on the 25th Ah interesting, I wonder if that fix is already in the 3.10.0-933 kernel that's meant to be in the RHEL 7.6 beta? -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamue

Re: [Beowulf] RHEL7 kernel update for L1TF vulnerability breaks RDMA

2018-09-10 Thread Chris Samuel
On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 9:17:21 AM AEST Ryan Novosielski wrote: > So we’ve learned what, here, that RedHat doesn’t test the RDMA stack at all? It certainly does seem to be the case. Unlike other issues I've hit in the past with bugs introduced in the IB stack in 6.x -> 6.y transitions whe

Re: [Beowulf] RHEL7 kernel update for L1TF vulnerability breaks RDMA

2018-09-10 Thread Kilian Cavalotti
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 4:18 PM Ryan Novosielski wrote: > So we’ve learned what, here, that RedHat doesn’t test the RDMA stack at all? Looks like Spectre-like vulns take all precedence, these days, indeed. Last I heard, the fix will be in 862.14.1 to be released on the 25th Cheers, -- Kilian _

Re: [Beowulf] RHEL7 kernel update for L1TF vulnerability breaks RDMA

2018-09-10 Thread Ryan Novosielski
> On Sep 10, 2018, at 18:15, Chris Samuel wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 1:25:55 AM AEST Peter St. John wrote: >> >> I had wanted to say that such a bug would be caught by compiling with some >> reasonalbe warning level; but I think I was wrong. > > Interesting - looks like it depend

Re: [Beowulf] RHEL7 kernel update for L1TF vulnerability breaks RDMA

2018-09-10 Thread Peter St. John
yes the gcc I used is 5.1, I guess that's how long I've had this laptop :-) And I like that "not guarding" that sounds useful. On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Chris Samuel wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 1:25:55 AM AEST Peter St. John wrote: > > > I had wanted to say that such a bug woul

Re: [Beowulf] RHEL7 kernel update for L1TF vulnerability breaks RDMA

2018-09-10 Thread Chris Samuel
On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 1:25:55 AM AEST Peter St. John wrote: > I had wanted to say that such a bug would be caught by compiling with some > reasonalbe warning level; but I think I was wrong. Interesting - looks like it depends on your GCC version, 7.3.0 catches it with -Wall here: chris@

Re: [Beowulf] RHEL7 kernel update for L1TF vulnerability breaks RDMA

2018-09-10 Thread Peter St. John
I had wanted to say that such a bug would be caught by compiling with some reasonalbe warning level; but I think I was wrong. I compiled if(1==1); with some wrapper and got nothing with whatever gcc I have on this laptop, until gcc -Wextra which is more persnickety than -Wall, and just got mynoo

[Beowulf] SC18: Needed Beowulf Memories (Update)

2018-09-10 Thread Douglas Eadline
Update: It looks like we are going to be coupled with the SC 30th year display outside the main show entrance. We have about 10x20 feet (3x6m) of space. We are also hoping this space becomes a stop and chat area for Beowulfers (there will be chairs) More to come, working on the Bash as well.

Re: [Beowulf] RHEL7 kernel update for L1TF vulnerability breaks RDMA

2018-09-10 Thread John Hearns via Beowulf
Linux should have coded the kernel in Python then. Easily caught there. (Yes. I am making a joke) On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 at 09:23, Chris Samuel wrote: > > On Friday, 17 August 2018 2:47:37 PM AEST Chris Samuel wrote: > > > Just a heads up that the 3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64 kernel from RHEL/CentOS >

Re: [Beowulf] RHEL7 kernel update for L1TF vulnerability breaks RDMA

2018-09-10 Thread Chris Samuel
On Friday, 17 August 2018 2:47:37 PM AEST Chris Samuel wrote: > Just a heads up that the 3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64 kernel from RHEL/CentOS > that was released to address the most recent Intel CPU problem "L1TF" seems > to break RDMA (found by a colleague here at Swinburne). So this CentOS bug ha

Re: [Beowulf] C++ compilers and assembly

2018-09-10 Thread Benson Muite
Thanks. This is interesting. Possibly also of interest: https://clearlinux.org/ Not for HPC, but some aspects look useful. On 09/10/2018 06:50 AM, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote: Chris Samuels recent post reminds me. I went to a fascinating and well delivered talk by Jason Hearne McGuiness https