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 From: ben@decadent.org.uk 
  
 On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:18:14 +0200 Benoit Panizzon 
  wrote: 
 [...] 
 > I suspect it could be a problem affecting only that specific CPU 
 indeed 
 > hitting an invalid opcode. 
 [...] 
  
 I don't think that's what's happening.  The kernel intentionally has an 
 invalid instruction on each assertion failure path, because this is 
 smaller than a subroutine call and saves more CPU state. 
  
 Ben. 
  
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