http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129428
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1129428#c22
--- Comment #22 from J. Daniel Schmidt
Also check for a BIOS update.
Will check and report back soon.
There was a BIOS Update. Details: https://www.dell.com/support/home/de/de/debsdt1/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=m26kc&oscode=biosa&productcode=precision-t3620-workstation After installing the BIOS Update the segfaulting and Oopsing continues as before. With a slight difference: Firefox with taskset -c 3 Oopses within seconds Firefox with taskset -c 7 can run for up to an hour just with segfaults in the background until the system finally froze. Maybe it was just bad luck, but it was reproducible 3 times. (In reply to Vlastimil Babka from comment #21)
Hmm that should be two hyperthreads of a single core. It really looks like it might be faulty.
Yes, they are thread siblings. I now disabled these two threads to make the system stable again: echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/online How can I find out if its the hardware that is faulty? Bernhard Wiedemann told me about a bug where a spectre patch had an off by one when counting the cpu numbers (I don't have details, Bernhard can you please provide links or details?). This might also be a possibility, right? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.