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Peter Zijlstra 7d42896628 perf_event, x86: Fix 'perf sched record' crashing the machine 
Chris Malley reported that 'perf sched record' sometimes
crashes his box with:

[  389.272175] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffb300
[  389.272294] IP: [<c011b0bd>] default_send_IPI_self+0x1d/0x50
[  389.272366] *pde = 0073f067 *pte = 00000000
[  389.274708] Call Trace:
[  389.274752]  [<c010e3b4>] ?  set_perf_event_pending+0x14/0x20
[  389.274801]  [<c01b9751>] ?  perf_output_unlock+0x121/0x1a0
[  389.274848]  [<c01b981a>] ? perf_output_end+0x4a/0x70
[  389.274893]  [<c01ba690>] ?  __perf_event_overflow+0x240/0x2f0
[  389.274942]  [<c030963e>] ? atomic64_cmpxchg+0x1e/0x30
[  389.274988]  [<c01ba8f4>] ?  perf_swevent_ctx_event+0x1b4/0x1c0
[  389.275035]  [<c01ba773>] ?  perf_swevent_ctx_event+0x33/0x1c0
[  389.275081]  [<c01ba9a7>] ? do_perf_sw_event+0xa7/0x160
[  389.275127]  [<c01baae2>] ? perf_tp_event+0x82/0xa0
[  389.275174]  [<c012e9c6>] ?  ftrace_profile_sched_stat_runtime+0xe6/0x120
[  389.275224]  [<c012e8e0>] ?  ftrace_profile_sched_stat_runtime+0x0/0x120
[  389.275273]  [<c013c85a>] ? update_curr+0x18a/0x230
[  389.275318]  [<c013cdc5>] ?  put_prev_task_fair+0x155/0x160
[  389.275366]  [<c01618b5>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xd5/0x110
[  389.275413]  [<c04e7525>] ? _spin_lock_irq+0x45/0x50
[  389.275458]  [<c04e424e>] ? schedule+0x20e/0xb10

The problem is that the box has no lapic enabled:

  [    0.042445] Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.

The below seems like the best fix. We disabled all lapic bits, except
the self-IPI-resend logic.

Reported-by: Chris Malley <mail@chrismalley.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <7863dc4c0909221409v7893bfd3o4b590d5951a233ba@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-23 11:25:56 +02:00
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arm perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
avr32
blackfin perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
cris
frv perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
h8300
ia64
m32r
m68k perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
m68knommu perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
microblaze perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
mips perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
mn10300 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
parisc perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
powerpc perf_event, powerpc: Fix compilation after big perf_counter rename 2009-09-22 09:30:40 +02:00
s390 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
score
sh Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-21 09:15:07 -07:00
sparc Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-09-21 09:06:31 -07:00
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