[Bug 2077145] Re: GDS force mitigation re-enabled in 6.10 causing crashes

2024-08-22 Thread Tormod Volden
> Just waiting for the kernel team to make the source available in the normal oracular git repo. It is here: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/oracular/tree/debian.master/config/annotations?h=Ubuntu-6.11.0-4.4#n8189 Also -5.5 is affected and it on its way: https:/

[Bug 2077145] Re: GDS force mitigation re-enabled in 6.10 causing crashes

2024-08-22 Thread Tormod Volden
> Just waiting for the kernel team to make the source available in the normal oracular git repo. It is here: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/oracular/tree/debian.master/config/annotations?h=Ubuntu-6.11.0-4.4#n8189 Everybody running this kernel on an older Intel

[Bug 2077145] Re: GDS force mitigation re-enabled in 6.10 causing crashes

2024-08-22 Thread Tormod Volden
Matthew, you can check this yourself. Just install the kernel and look for CONFIG_MITIGATION_GDS_FORCE in /boot/config-*. You don't need to install it either, you can just download the "modules" package that owns the config file and unpack it with dpkg-deb and grep the config file. -- You receive

[Bug 2077145] Re: GDS force mitigation re-enabled in 6.10 causing crashes

2024-08-21 Thread Matthew Ruffell
Hi Tormod, Could you check 6.11.0-4-generic for Oracular in this particular ppa? https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-team/+archive/ubuntu/unstable The 6.10 kernel in -proposed will be replaced by this one, or a newer build eventually. Just waiting for the kernel team to make the source avai

[Bug 2077145] Re: GDS force mitigation re-enabled in 6.10 causing crashes

2024-08-20 Thread Tormod Volden
Maybe I should point out that the upstream default is 'n' [1]. I don't know why it has been set to 'y' in Ubuntu, maybe just because mitigation sounds "safe". [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/x86/Kconfig?h=v6.10#n2615 -- You received this bug notif

[Bug 2077145] Re: GDS force mitigation re-enabled in 6.10 causing crashes

2024-08-19 Thread Tormod Volden
Hi Philip, There must be a misunderstanding. In your links I see: +CONFIG_MITIGATION_GDS_FORCE policy<{'amd64': 'y'}> So line 8134 has: CONFIG_MITIGATION_GDS_FORCE policy<{'amd64': 'y'}> and this is the problem. This setting should be 'n'. Please see my

[Bug 2077145] Re: GDS force mitigation re-enabled in 6.10 causing crashes

2024-08-19 Thread Philip Cox
Hello Tormod, thank you for taking the time to open this bug report. I just checked the latest 6.10 ubuntu kernel tree, and this seems to be resolved when the tree rebased to 6.10rc1. Here is the current state of the kernel config: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu- kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+

[Bug 2077145] Re: GDS force mitigation re-enabled in 6.10 causing crashes

2024-08-16 Thread Tormod Volden
** Description changed: The (supposedly unintended) re-enabling of GDS force migration in the Ubuntu 6.10 kernels causes the AVX instruction to be disabled on older CPUs which have no available microcode update. This causes various programs to crash due to the unconditional use of AVX in l

[Bug 2077145] Re: GDS force mitigation re-enabled in 6.10 causing crashes

2024-08-16 Thread Tormod Volden
** Description changed: The (supposedly unintended) re-enabling of GDS force migration in the - 6.10 kernels causes the AVX instruction to be disabled on older CPUs - which have no available microcode update. This causes various programs - to crash due to the unconditional use of AVX in libgnutl

[Bug 2077145] Re: GDS force mitigation re-enabled in 6.10 causing crashes

2024-08-16 Thread Tormod Volden
** Description changed: The (supposedly unintended) re-enabling of GDS force migration in the 6.10 kernels causes the AVX instruction to be disabled on older CPUs which have no available microcode update. This causes various programs to crash due to the unconditional use of AVX in libgnutl