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SubjectRe: [patch 05/24] perfmon: X86 generic code (x86)
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On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 13:04 +0100, stephane eranian wrote:
> Peter,
>
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 12:35 +0100, stephane eranian wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> >> >> The only reason why I have to deal with NMI is not so much to allow
> >> >> for profiling irq-off regions but because I have to share the PMU with
> >> >> the NMI watchdog. Otherwise I'd have to fail or disable the NMI watchdog
> >> >> on the fly.
> >> >
> >> > The NMI watchdog is now off by default so failing with it enabled
> >> > is fine.
> >>
> >> Yes, but most likely it is on in distro kernels.
> >
> > So? You can disable it on the fly when there is a perfmon user.
> >
> Yes, you can. There is clearly an interface to do this. I think this is the
> best solution. I know it can work because it experimented with this approach
> no later than last month. But I ran into a bug which I reported on LKML. I did
> not provide a patch because I did not fully understand the connection to
> suspend/resume.
>
> The bug has to do with some obscure suspend/resume sequence in:
>
> void setup_apic_nmi_watchdog(void *unused)
> {
> if (__get_cpu_var(wd_enabled))
> return;
>
> /* cheap hack to support suspend/resume */
> /* if cpu0 is not active neither should the other cpus */
> if (smp_processor_id() != 0 && atomic_read(&nmi_active) <= 0)
> return;
>
> Basically, when you re-enable the NMI watchdog, it is not always re-enabled
> correctly on all CPUs, it depends on the order if which they process the IPI.

Hmm, either we loose that bit and fix the suspend/resume bit properly,
or we can send the IPIs one by one in the correct order ;-)

Dunno, CC'ed all the folks who touched it last.


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