Regular oops on shutdown of KVM/ARM64 machines with VGA device

[Mark Rutland]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 08:46:28AM +0100, Dirk Müller wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> > I've seen issues with prior FW versions where the ethernet controller
> > was erroneously left active after ExitBootServices(), and would DMA
> > braodcast packets over the kernel. That resulted in similar failures to
> > what you're reporting.
> >
> > Can you reproduce the issue with all ethernet cables unplugged?
> 
> not with ethernet cables unplugged, but I did ifdown on all interfaces
> and was able to trigger the issue just fine. Please note it is 100%
> reproducible in one sequence each and every time, which imho makes it
> unlikely to be a DMA scatter issue.

I see; agreed.

> > You can also try enabling CONFIG_MEMTEST (and pass memtest on the
> > command line) at boot time, which may happen to catch DMA in the act.
> 
> Did not try this.

Given the above it sounds like it wouldn't help anyway ;)

Sorry for the noise!

Mark.