RE: [PATCH 1/8] perf/x86/intel: Fix memory corruption

[DSouza, Nelson]

Attached cpu hotplug test output while perf is running in the background. No WARN messages seen.

When I run the kexec command, it boots to bios. Haven't used kexec before. Still trying to figure that one out.

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From: Peter Zijlstra [mailto:peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019 1:07 PM
To: DSouza, Nelson <nelson.dsouza@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@xxxxxxxx>; Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>; Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>; Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>; LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] perf/x86/intel: Fix memory corruption

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 07:47:50PM +0000, DSouza, Nelson wrote:
> Is the request to check whether the msr gets reset to default upon reboot of the machine ?

basically:

 - apply patch
 - start workload with 4 counter (on all CPUs), such that tfa-msr=1
 - try the following:
   o cpu hotplug
   o kexec

to see if the new WARN will trigger -- it should not.

root@jf1-otc-3AR3-33:~# cat /sys/devices/cpu/allow_tsx_force_abort
1
root@jf1-otc-3AR3-33:~# perf stat -e cs,'{cache-misses,cache-references,branches,branch-misses}' --no-merge -a sleep 60 &
[1] 3025
root@jf1-otc-3AR3-33:~# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/online
root@jf1-otc-3AR3-33:~# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/online
root@jf1-otc-3AR3-33:~# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu6/online
root@jf1-otc-3AR3-33:~# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/online
root@jf1-otc-3AR3-33:~#
 Performance counter stats for 'system wide':

             4,800      cs
     <not counted>      cache-misses
     <not counted>      cache-references
     <not counted>      branches
     <not counted>      branch-misses

      60.009098150 seconds time elapsed



[1]+  Done                    perf stat -e cs,'{cache-misses,cache-references,branches,branch-misses}' --no-merge -a sleep 60