Re: perf sched record hangs machine

[Chris Malley]

2009/9/23 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>:
>
> * Chris Malley <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 2009/9/23 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>:
>> >
>> > * Chris Malley <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Applied Peter's patch, doesn't seem to have fixed the problem:
>> >>
>> >> [ ?246.408893] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffb300
>> >> [ ?246.408939] IP: [<c011b0bd>] default_send_IPI_self+0x1d/0x50
>> >
>> > could you please send the full bootlog, up to the crash?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > ? ? ? ?Ingo
>> >
>>
>> Sure, but I'm just rebuilding from clean first in case the change
>> wasn't picked up for some reason, because I don't see how it can get
>> to default_send_IPI_self() in my configuration...
>
> yeah - i have that thinking too - according to your earlier boot
> messages x86_pmu.apic must be 0 and that codepath shouldnt trigger.
>
>        Ingo
>

Yep, my bad.  The build process had helpfully appended a -dirty tag to
the kernel version which I hadn't noticed.

I can't make it hang any more, so the fix looks good to me, thanks everyone.

Chris
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