News Dev Boots Linux 292,612 Times to Find 1 in 1,000 Kernel Bug

[Admin]

A developer has shared a blog post about finding and fixing an infrequent but replicable Linux boot bug.

Dev Boots Linux 292,612 Times to Find 1 in 1,000 Kernel Bug : Read more

 

[ezst036]

Thank you!

 

[BigBig5]

This seems to happen more often with Linux 6.4 on my newly built AMD desktop.

 

[bit_user]

Works out to 3.88 boots/sec. Obviously, he must've been using a collection of VMs. I wonder how many and on what hardware.

 

[Royalgipsy]

So can we get a update? If there is a certain range of hardware. I don't k know but this felt like giving us the problem and not telling what kind of hardware is likely to replicate the issue..

 

[bit_user]

So can we get a update? If there is a certain range of hardware. I don't k know but this felt like giving us the problem and not telling what kind of hardware is likely to replicate the issue..

As usual, the article has a source link, near the top.

I booted Linux 292,612 times

And it only took 21 hours. Linux 6.4 has a bug where it hangs on boot, but probably only 1 in 1000 boots (and rarer if using Intel hardware for some reason). It’s surprising to me that no one…

rwmj.wordpress.com

I had already clicked on it to find out more details, but that's just a short blog post with more links and some comments. I didn't bother to go any further, but I'm sure the answers are there to be found.

I thought this might be covered better on Phoronix, so I just checked. Saw no mention of it, but this related work sounds promising:

Linux x86 Boot Process Trying To Cleanup "Hay-Wire Circuits, Duct Tape & Super Glue" - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

 

[Steve Nord_]

So can we get a update? If there is a certain range of hardware. I don't k know but this felt like giving us the problem and not telling what kind of hardware is likely to replicate the issue..

Since the link is from the RedHat blog, I'd expect it on mainline linux and any supported RedHat release. Last linked in top linked page to kernel org, so there's your log.

In other news, it's a miracle they didn't go into a martial trance demonstrating it for the kernel WG at the 293,000th BEEEP or whatever.