Re: [PATCH] NMI watchdog: when booting with reset_devices, clearthe performance counters

[Ingo Molnar]

* Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> P4s have a quirk that makes necessary to clear P4_CCCR_OVF bit on the CCCR
> everytime the PMI is triggered. When booting the kernel with reset_devices
> (more specific kdump case), the counters reach zero and the PMI will be
> generated. This is not a problem on other processors but on P4s, it'll
> continue to generate NMIs until that bit is cleared. Since there may be
> other users of the performance counters, clear and disable all of them
> when booting with reset_devices option.
> 
> We have a P4 box here that crashes because of this problem. Since the kdump
> kernel usually boots with only one processor active, the second logical
> unit won't be set up, therefore, MSR_P4_IQ_CCCR1 (and other performance
> counter registers) won't be cleared and P4_CCCR_OVF may be still set because
> the previous kernel was using this register. An NMI is triggered because of
> the MSR_P4_IQ_CCCR1 right after the NMI delivery is enabled, triggering the
> race fixed on my previous email.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>

applied to tip/x86/nmi-watchdog, thanks.

i'm wondering, is this fix a v2.6.27 candidate?

	Ingo
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