Re: perf/tracepoint: another fuzzer generated lockup

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 11:36:58PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> [  237.627769] perf samples too long (3397569 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
> [  237.637124] INFO: NMI handler (perf_event_nmi_handler) took too long to run: 444.233 msecs
> 
> 444 msecs is huge.

Be glad your system lived to tell about it ;-) Calling printk() from NMI
context is Russian roulette; I'm still waiting for the first report it
actually locked up :-)

That said, I'm not sure what kernel you're running, but there were some
issues with time-keeping hereabouts, but more importantly that second
timing includes the printk() call of the first -- so that's always going
to be fucked.
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