Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] x86: Basic AMD Support for performancecounters, disable IRQs

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Mar 01 2009 - 06:53:20 EST



* Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Commit-ID: 15112f89efb79797c0d70ce6759e2438d66d4f59
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/15112f89efb79797c0d70ce6759e2438d66d4f59
> Author: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:02:11 +0530
> Commit: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:43:03 +0100
>
> x86: Basic AMD Support for performance counters, disable IRQs
>
> Ingo Molnar reported:
>
> > The AMD perfcounter patches cause a crash - an Opteron system
> > spontaneous reboots at this point during early bootup:
> >
> > CPU 0/0x4 -> Node 0
> > tseg: 00cfe00000
> > CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
> > CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
> > using C1E aware idle routine
> > AMD Performance Monitoring support detected.
> > ... num counters: 4
> > ... value mask: 0000000000000000
> > ... fixed counters: 0
> > ... counter mask: 000000000000000f
> > ACPI: Core revision 20081204
> > ftrace: converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00
> > ftrace: allocating 16365 entries in 129 pages
> > Setting APIC routing to physical flat
> > masked ExtINT on CPU#0
> > ENABLING IO
> > [reboot]
>
> Disable the IRQ path for now.

No, this doesnt help - it still crashes.

Ingo
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