On 04/10/2016, 08:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
> 
> commit 3135a66b768c5ee84c8a98b21d0330dc1c1234b4 upstream.

Where does this come from?

fatal: bad object 3135a66b768c5ee84c8a98b21d0330dc1c1234b4

The same for the later perf patch.

> Using PAGE_SIZE buffers makes the WRMSR to PERF_GLOBAL_CTRL in
> intel_pmu_enable_all() mysteriously hang on Core2. As a workaround, we
> don't do this.
> 
> The hard lockup is easily triggered by running 'perf test attr'
> repeatedly. Most of the time it gets stuck on sample session with
> small periods.
> 
>   # perf test attr -vv
>   14: struct perf_event_attr setup                             :
>   --- start ---
>   ...
>     'PERF_TEST_ATTR=/tmp/tmpuEKz3B /usr/bin/perf record -o 
> /tmp/tmpuEKz3B/perf.data -c 123 kill >/dev/null 2>&1' ret 1
> 
> Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kan Liang <[email protected]>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: Stephane Eranian <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
> Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.h          |    1 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c |   13 +++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs

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