Re: Yet more softlockups.

From: Vince Weaver
Date: Wed Jul 10 2013 - 11:39:09 EST


On Wed, 10 Jul 2013, Dave Jones wrote:

> Something is really fucked up in the kernel side of perf.
> I get this right after booting..
>
> [ 114.516619] perf samples too long (4262 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
>
> That's before I even get a chance to log in, so I'm pretty sure perf isn't even being run.
>
> And this is just booting up my desktop, not fuzzing.

This is probably related to the problem described in the thread
perf: fix interrupt handler timing harness
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1520775
which in theory has a fix. Not sure why it'd trigger during boot.
NMI watchdog?

Vince

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