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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] perf: Use LBR for machine/oops debugging
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:14:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1269872059.12097.338.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bpe7qnrg.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 15:08 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> writes:
> 
> > The LBRs are relatively cheap to keep enabled and provide some history
> > to OOPSen, also some CPUs are reported to keep them over soft-reset,
> > which allows us to use them to debug things like tripple faults.
> >
> > Therefore introduce a boot option: lbr_debug=on, which always enable
> > the LBRs and will print the LBRs on CPU init and die().
> 
> 
> die is too late. they will only contain the oops code then.

We do an lbr_off() in oops_begin(), or is there a better/earlier place
we can do that?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-29 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-29 12:20 [PATCH 0/2] perf: Use LBR for machine/oops debugging Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-29 12:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] perf, x86: fix __initconst vs const Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-29 12:20 ` [RFC,PATCH 2/2] perf, x86: Utilize the LBRs for machine/oops debugging Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-29 12:47   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-03-29 14:13     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-03-29 14:20       ` Stephane Eranian
2010-03-29 17:02   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-29 17:12     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-02 20:44       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-29 13:08 ` [PATCH 0/2] perf: Use LBR " Andi Kleen
2010-03-29 13:16   ` Stephane Eranian
2010-03-29 14:14   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-03-29 20:09     ` Andi Kleen

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