Re: cpu stall and hyperthread

[Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>]

Hi Dong,

>>> I can quite reliably trigger this cpu stall error now. Just try to start
>>> several KVM guests.
>> Good. BTW, we do repeated long-term tests 14 times per day with a single
>> kvm guest that runs on two cores and conducts a number of CPU
>> benchmarks. (https://www.osadl.org/?id=931) - never had this problem. So
>> it may be related to running more than a single kvm guest.
> I don't have /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ directory. The kernel doc says
> turn on CONFIG_KPROBE_TRACING. But I could not find this config.
Either tracing is not configured or the debugfs is not mounted or it is 
mounted elsewhere.
Try
   mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
and, if the tracer still is not there, do
   make menuconfig
       Kernel hacking  --->
       [*] Tracers  --->
         [*]   Kernel Function Tracer
         [*]   enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically
and recompile the kernel.

If you want the debugfs to be mounted at boot time, append
   nodev /sys/kernel/debug debugfs defaults 0 0
to /etc/fstab.

	-Carsten.