Re: [PATCH] perf/x86/intel/uncore: fix IMC missing box initialization

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon May 11 2015 - 06:00:44 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 03:43:32AM +0000, Liang, Kan wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > This leads me to believe that this patch:
> > > >
> > > > commit c05199e5a57a579fea1e8fa65e2b511ceb524ffc
> > > > Author: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Date: Tue Jan 20 04:54:25 2015 +0000
> > > >
> > > > perf/x86/intel/uncore: Move uncore_box_init() out of driver
> > > initialization
> > > >
> > > > If I revert it, I bet things will work again.
> > >
> > > Yes the initialization needs to be moved out of the IPI context.
>
> I'm for the clean revert I think. Crashing is bad, but hiding/delaying
> it seems counter productive too, it'll just mean we'll only learn about
> it later.

So should I revert c05199e5a57a, with a Cc: stable?

Thanks,

Ingo
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