Re: kernel panic on NHM EX machine

[Alex Shi]

On 04/12/2012 10:46 AM, Fengguang Wu wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This commit makes a difference. Found by auto bisection and confirmed
> by reverting it on top of v3.4-rc2.  Attached is my kconfig.
> 
> commit 77b0d60c5adf39c74039e2142a1d3cd1e4d53799
> Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Nov 4 17:18:21 2011 -0700
> 
>     clockevents: Leave the broadcast device in shutdown mode when not needed
>     
>     Platforms with Always Running APIC Timer doesn't use the broadcast timer
>     but the kernel is leaving the broadcast timer (HPET in this case)
>     in oneshot mode.
>     
>     On these platforms, before the switch to oneshot mode, broadcast device is
>     actually in shutdown mode. Code checks for empty tick_broadcast_mask and
>     avoids going into the periodic mode.
>     
>     During switch to oneshot mode, add the same tick_broadcast_mask checks in the
>     tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot() and avoid the broadcast device going into
>     the oneshot mode.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
>     Cc: john stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Cc: venki@xxxxxxxxxx
>     Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320452301.15071.16.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


It made loopback netperf performance regression on NHM-EP, I thought it
is due to few local timers missing on EP, but didn't know it is totally
out of work on EX.



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