From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752690AbbFXMVl (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:21:41 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:37087 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750994AbbFXMVc (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:21:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:21:21 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mingo@kernel.org, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, bp@alien8.de, brgerst@gmail.com, luto@amacapital.net, oleg@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:perf/urgent] perf/x86/intel: Fix PMI handling for Intel PT Message-ID: <20150624122121.GL3644@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <87k2v92t0s.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:58:36AM -0700, tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin wrote: > Commit-ID: 1b7b938f181742f899a2f31c280f79dabef6ddb6 > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/1b7b938f181742f899a2f31c280f79dabef6ddb6 > Author: Alexander Shishkin > AuthorDate: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 13:03:26 +0300 > Committer: Ingo Molnar > CommitDate: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:38:47 +0200 > > perf/x86/intel: Fix PMI handling for Intel PT And the price goes to.... The result is very reproducible and the bisection is good, as reverting this one commit makes it go away. I've just finished, have not actually looked at the code yet, I need to eat first. --- root@ivb-ep:/usr/src/linux-2.6# perf record -a -e cycles:pp -- make O=defconfig-build/ clean; make O=defconfig-build/ defconfig; make O=defconfig-build/ -j80 -s results in fail: [ 45.618402] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 21 on CPU 0. [ 45.625020] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? [ 45.631336] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue [ 49.736011] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 3. [ 49.742627] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? [ 49.748954] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue [ 50.317877] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 26. [ 50.324591] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? [ 50.330917] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue [ 50.950088] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 27. [ 50.956804] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? [ 50.963129] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue