Re: [PATCH] perf,x86: fix kernel crash with PEBS/BTS after suspend/resume

From: Parag Warudkar
Date: Sat Mar 16 2013 - 18:06:20 EST


On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> This seems to trigger a WARN_ON during suspend/resume.
>
> Ugh, yes. It's practically harmless, but it's ugly and technically
> wrong (we're using wrmsr_on_cpu() on our current cpu, but in a context
> where using it on anything else would be horribly broken).
>
> I think the attached patch should fix it. UNTESTED!

Applied and that seems to have suppressed the warning.

Unrelated to this now it dies in intel_pstate_timer_func doing what
seems to be a divide by zero.

Hopefully I will be able to capture the oops on camera next time.

Thanks,
Parag
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