Re: System crash with perf_fuzzer (kernel: 5.0.0-rc3)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Mar 06 2019 - 18:09:58 EST


On Fri 2019-01-25 08:00:56, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > [Fri Jan 25 10:28:53 2019] perf: interrupt took too long (2501 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 79750
> > [Fri Jan 25 10:29:08 2019] perf: interrupt took too long (3136 > 3126), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 63750
> > [Fri Jan 25 10:29:11 2019] perf: interrupt took too long (4140 > 3920), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 48250
> > [Fri Jan 25 10:29:11 2019] perf: interrupt took too long (5231 > 5175), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 38000
> > [Fri Jan 25 10:29:11 2019] perf: interrupt took too long (6736 > 6538), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 29500
>
> These are fairly normal.

Unfortunately, they are. Could we set up our defaults so that they
don't normally happen?

pavel@amd:~/g/unicsy_demo$ dmesg | grep "took too"
[ 761.507893] perf: interrupt took too long (2516 > 2500), lowering
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 79250
[ 4736.674595] perf: interrupt took too long (3209 > 3145), lowering
kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 62250
pavel@amd:~/g/unicsy_demo$


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