Re: [LKP] [lkp] [x86/hweight] 65ea11ec6a: will-it-scale.per_process_ops 9.3% improvement

[H. Peter Anvin]

On August 25, 2016 4:45:06 AM PDT, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 03:05:19AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I'm wondering if one of those 23 invocations sets up some kind of
>> corrupt data that continues to get used.
>
>That could be one plausible explanation. Look at what calls
>__sw_hweight64:
>
>initmem_init
>numa_policy_init
>page_writeback_init
>paging_init
>pcpu_embed_first_chunk
>pcpu_setup_first_chunk
>sched_init
>set_rq_online.part.46
>setup_arch
>setup_per_cpu_areas
>update_sysctl
>x86_64_start_kernel
>x86_64_start_reservations
>x86_numa_init
>zone_sizes_init
>
>I could very well imagine per CPU areas or some sched structure or
>whatever getting silently corrupted.
>
>Thanks.

Either way, I think we can conclude that we probably did catch a real problem.
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