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SubjectRe: [V2 PATCH 0/6] x86, NMI: give NMI handler a face-lift
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:28:50PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 03:08:07PM -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 01:51:44PM -0600, Jason Wessel wrote:
> > > > So the problem is when the nmi watchdog is enabled, the perf event is
> > > > 'active' and thus tries to read the counter value. Because it is always
> > > > zero, perf just assumes the counter overflowed and the NMI is his.
> > > >
> > > > Not sure how to fix it yet, other than include the logic that detects we
> > > > are on a guest and disable perf??
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > I highly doubt we want to disable perf. I would rather use the source
> > > and fix the nmi emulation in KVM/Qemu after we hear back the results
> >
> > Well I think Peter does not have a positive opinion about emulating perf
> > inside a guest. Nor are the KVM folks having much success in doing so.
> >
> > Just to clarify, perf counter emulation is _not_ implemented in kvm.
> > Therefore disabling perf in the guest makes sense until someone gets
> > around to actually writing the emulation code for perf in a guest. :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Don
>
> Don, Robert,
>
> I still have suspicious on ours 'pending' nmi handler. Look what I mean --
> (keep in mind that p4 has a a way more counters than others).
>

To be precise -- it seems this scenario may force the back-to-back
nmi handler to eat unknown nmi.

Cyrill


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