Re: [PATCH -tip] perf, x86: P4 PMU - Don't forget to clearcpuc->active_mask on overflow

[Don Zickus]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 03:17:48PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 07:13:37PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > > It's not enough to simply disable event on overflow the cpuc->active_mask
> > > should be cleared as well otherwise counter may stall in "active" even
> > > in real being already disabled (which potentially may lead to the situation
> > > that user may not use this counter further).
> > 
> > I also noticed this patch fixed some unknown NMIs on a P4 when I stressed
> > the box
> > 
> > Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Ok. Mind one of you resending all pending patches in this area, with all 
> Acked-by's and Tested-by's in place?

Cyril is that something you can do because I think all of these patches
revolve around P4 fixes?  Though I don't know what are all the patches.  I
know I had one and this patch.  Is there another on Cyril?

Cheers,
Don
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