linux-kernel - Re: oprofile + hibernation = badness

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Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:15:59 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@...e.cz>,
	"Robert Richter" <robert.richter@....com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Philippe Elie" <phil.el@...adoo.fr>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: oprofile + hibernation = badness

On Monday, 18 of August 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> > Apparently nmi_suspend() conflicts with oprofile somehow.  Also, the offlining
> > of non-boot CPUs may confuse it.  It would be helpful to check if the CPU
> > hotplug works with oprofile.
> 
> That is a good suggestion :-)
> 
> Here is offlining:
> 
> CPU 1 is now offline
> lockdep: fixing up alternatives.
> SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
> CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
> WQ on CPU0, prefer CPU1
> CPU1 attaching NULL sched-domain.
> CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
>  domain 0: span 0 level CPU
>   groups: 0
> WQ on CPU0, prefer CPU1
> WQ on CPU0, prefer CPU1
> WQ on CPU0, prefer CPU1
> [repeat last message indefinitely]
> 
> Here is onlining:
> 
> Booting processor 1/1 ip 6000
> Initializing CPU#1
> WQ on CPU0, prefer CPU1
> WQ on CPU0, prefer CPU1
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5986.15 BogoMIPS (lpj=29930790)
> CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
> CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
> CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
> Intel machine check architecture supported.
> Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
> CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (24) available
> CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled
> x86 PAT enabled: cpu 1, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
> CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 05
> checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]:
> Measured 120 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock.
> Marking TSC unstable due to check_tsc_sync_source failed
> APIC error on CPU1: 00(40)
> Clockevents: could not switch to one-shot mode:<7>APIC error on CPU1: 40(40)
>  lapic is not functional.
> Could not switch to high resolution mode on CPU 0
> Clockevents: could not switch to one-shot mode: lapic is not functional.
> Could not switch to high resolution mode on CPU 1
> APIC error on CPU1: 40(40)
> [sched domains messages
> WQ on CPU0, prefer CPU1
> APIC error on CPU1: 40(40)
> [repeat last message 9 times]
> 
> Then follows this pattern indefinitely:
> 
> WQ on CPU0, prefer CPU1
> APIC error on CPU1: 40(40)
> [repeat last message 9 times]
> 
> That's basically the same thing as I saw with suspend. So it can be
> reproduced easily with CPU hotplug.

Well, I don't know who's the right person to ask about the CPU hotplug.
Andrew, can you help please?

Rafael
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