Comment 685 for bug 1690085

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In , jvdelisle (jvdelisle-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to Liu Liu from comment #597)
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> Some updates since I last posted. I've updated to gcc-8 and enabled
> idle=halt. Even though idle=halt + gcc-7 with the original reprod steps can
> still cause a lockup. By defaulting to gcc-8 and idle=halt, in day-to-day
> uses, I haven't encountered any system lockup in the past 2 months. I
> concluded that idle=halt should mitigate this problem for normal uses.

Are you saying that you compiled kernel with gcc-8 or that you use gcc-8 in your day to day work?

On my system I get a lockup if I do not use idle=nomwait. Like everyone else I too have tried verious combinations to be stable. (Ryzen 2500U Laptop) As far as I can tell this bug is not really fixed except on Microsoft Windows (and who knows what they are doing). Regardless things seem stable now but I can not use suspend (a different bug)