Re: [PATCH v2] x86 mmiotrace: dynamically disable non-boot CPUs

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Apr 26 2008 - 07:13:31 EST



* Pekka Paalanen <pq@xxxxxx> wrote:

> From 8979ee55cb6a429c4edd72ebec2244b849f6a79a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Pekka Paalanen <pq@xxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:18:57 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] x86 mmiotrace: dynamically disable non-boot CPUs
>
> Mmiotrace is not reliable with multiple CPUs and may miss events. Drop
> to single CPU when mmiotrace is activated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@xxxxxx>
> ---
>
> I've tested this patch on my Core 2 Duo laptop, and with "[PATCH v2]
> Check for breakpoint in text_poke to eliminate bug_on" cpu hotplug
> seems to work fine on a sched-devel/latest SMP kernel both with and
> without CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.

thanks Pekka, applied.

Ingo
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