Re: perf sched record hangs machine

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Sep 23 2009 - 08:27:43 EST



* Chris Malley <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

Great, thanks!

Ingo
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