Re: Yet more softlockups.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jul 12 2013 - 06:31:26 EST



* Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 05:20:15PM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > On 2013.07.10 at 11:13 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > I get this right after booting..
> > >
> > > [ 114.516619] perf samples too long (4262 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000
> >
> > You can disable this warning by:
> >
> > echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/perf_cpu_time_max_percent
>
> Yes, but why is this even being run when I'm not running perf ?
>
> The only NMI source running should be the watchdog.

The NMI watchdog is a perf event.

I've Cc:-ed Dave Hansen, the author of those changes - is this a false
positive or some real problem?

Thanks,

Ingo
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