Re: v3.0: Weird kernel log message when resuming avout NMI received

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 01:05:02PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 19:32 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> 
> > > >> I'm seeing those kernel message when resuming:
> > > >>
> > > >> [  524.973283] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 3d on CPU 0.
> > > >> [  524.973288] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?
> > > >> [  524.973289] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
> > > >>
> > > >> I don't know if it's important or not because the system seems to work
> > > >> after but maybe it worths to report
> 
> So I guess the problem is the NMI watchdog and suspend stuff not
> shutting things down properly.. 
> 
> Argh, the PM notifier muck runs before the hotplug notifiers and it
> doesn't avoid hotplug races on its own.. what crap.
> 
> something like the below perhaps, compile tested only.. does it work?
> 

Thanks a huge, Peter! (I'm CC'ing Jiri as well, he has same issue)

...
> @@ -6809,7 +6810,7 @@ static void __cpuinit perf_event_init_cp
>  	struct swevent_htable *swhash = &per_cpu(swevent_htable, cpu);
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&swhash->hlist_mutex);
> -	if (swhash->hlist_refcount > 0) {
> +	if (swhash->hlist_refcount > 0 && !swhash->swevent_hlist) {

Should not there be rcu_dereference(swhash->swevent_hlist)?

>  		struct swevent_hlist *hlist;
>  
>  		hlist = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*hlist), GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
...

	Cyrill
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