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Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:16:42 +0800
From:	"Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>
To:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
CC:	<guohanjun@...wei.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, pi3orama <pi3orama@....com>,
	xiakaixu 00238161 <xiakaixu@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG REPORT]: ARM64: perf: System hung in perf test



On 2015/12/21 22:01, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 08:56:03PM +0800, Wangnan (F) wrote:
>
[SNIP]
>>   # /perf test -v signal
>>   17: Test breakpoint overflow signal handler                  :
>>   --- start ---
>>   test child forked, pid 792
>>   count1 11, count2 11, overflow 11
>>   failed: RF EFLAG recursion issue detected
>>   failed: wrong overflow hit
>>   failed: wrong count for bp2
>>   test child finished with -1
>>   ---- end ----
>>   Test breakpoint overflow signal handler: FAILED!
> ... and this sounds like the perf tool expecting to single-step over
> signal handlers, whereas (on arm64) we deliberately single-step into
> them, so you can run into a loop for this case.

Could you please provide me more information? Do you think it is
a kernel bug and should be fixed? Or it is an invalid testcase for
aarch64?

Thank you.

> Will


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