From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: perf hw in kexeced kernel broken in tip
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:34:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101209043435.GT21786@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1oc8vetru.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 03:20:37PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 03:59:16PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:20 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >>
> >> > > I wonder if you should reverse these checks. If the bios has the perf
> >> > > counter enabled, there might be a high chance that it fails the first
> >> > > check and never gets to the actually bios checks.
> >> >
> >> > Ah, good point.
> >>
> >> Something like so..
> >
> > This seems to work correctly on my Nehalem and broken bios machines during
> > boot and kexec. As expected it fails during kdump. My p4 box failed
> > during kexec for some reason. But p4 has other issues.
>
> Does the kdump kernel still boot?
>
> It looks like it should I just want to double check.
Yeah, sorry for not being clear. It definitely boots and does it thing.
perf init (and thus nmi watchdog) fail with 'BIOS broken' because the perf
counters were not shutdown prior to executing kdump.
Cheers,
Don
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-09 4:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-01 8:00 perf hw in kexeced kernel broken in tip Yinghai Lu
2010-12-01 11:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 16:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-12-01 16:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 16:23 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-12-01 19:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 19:46 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-12-01 19:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 19:58 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-12-01 20:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 21:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-02 5:23 ` Don Zickus
2010-12-02 7:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-02 16:15 ` Don Zickus
2010-12-07 23:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-08 14:01 ` Don Zickus
2010-12-08 14:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-08 14:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-12-08 14:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-08 15:02 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-12-08 15:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-08 15:22 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-12-08 21:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-08 14:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-08 18:43 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-12-08 19:01 ` Don Zickus
2010-12-08 19:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-12-08 19:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-08 19:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-12-08 19:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-08 19:20 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-12-08 22:37 ` Don Zickus
2010-12-08 23:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-12-09 4:34 ` Don Zickus [this message]
2010-12-09 20:20 ` Don Zickus
2010-12-09 20:44 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-12-08 14:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-08 14:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2010-12-07 21:16 ` Don Zickus
2010-12-08 0:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2010-12-08 10:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-01 20:41 ` Eric W. Biederman
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