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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: mingo@elte.hu, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] perf: Use LBR for machine/oops debugging
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:20:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100329122021.765109681@chello.nl> (raw)

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().


             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-29 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-29 12:20 Peter Zijlstra [this message]
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
2010-03-29 20:09     ` Andi Kleen

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