similar to: [PATCH v2 0/2] fix "perf top" soft lockups under Xen

Hi all, These 2 patches try to fix the "perf top" soft lockups under Xen reported by Steven at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/9/506 I tested it with 3.4-rc2 and "perf top" works well now. Steven, Could you please help to test it too? The soft lockup code path is: __irq_work_queue arch_irq_work_raise apic->send_IPI_self(IRQ_WORK_VECTOR); apic_send_IPI_self

(Forgot mail subject, add it) On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Lin Ming <mlin@ss.pku.edu.cn> wrote: > Hi all, > > These 2 patches try to fix the "perf top" soft lockups under Xen > reported by Steven at: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/9/506 > > I tested it with 3.4-rc2 and "perf top" works well now. > > Steven, > Could you please help to test it

xen/arch/x86/crash.c | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- xen/arch/x86/machine_kexec.c | 19 ++++++ xen/arch/x86/x86_64/entry.S | 34 +++++++++++ xen/include/asm-x86/desc.h | 45 +++++++++++++++ xen/include/asm-x86/processor.h | 4 + 5 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) Experimentally, certain crash kernels will triple fault very early

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one intterupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one intterupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one intterupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

plain text document attachment (xx-paravirt-apic-header.patch) This patch updates the apic header file for switching apic_read and write for use with paravirt ops. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt srostedt@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Index: clean-start/include/asm-x86_64/apic.h =================================================================== ---

plain text document attachment (xx-paravirt-apic-header.patch) This patch updates the apic header file for switching apic_read and write for use with paravirt ops. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt srostedt@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Index: clean-start/include/asm-x86_64/apic.h =================================================================== ---

Move APIC read / write accessors to sub-arch layer. Note that we don't bother to implement apic_write_atomic any different, as it is only present to work around old processor erratums (Pentium Processor Spec update 11AP), and VMI kernels do not offer support for this class of processor. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Arai <arai@vmware.com>

Move APIC read / write accessors to sub-arch layer. Note that we don't bother to implement apic_write_atomic any different, as it is only present to work around old processor erratums (Pentium Processor Spec update 11AP), and VMI kernels do not offer support for this class of processor. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Arai <arai@vmware.com>

From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu at huawei.com> Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call

From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu at huawei.com> Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call

From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu at huawei.com> Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97 at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one interrupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97 at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one intterupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at

Commit 9a46ad6d6df3b54 "smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to smp_call_function_single()" has unified the way to handle single and multiple cross-CPU function calls. Now only one intterupt is needed for architecture specific code to support generic SMP function call interfaces, so kill the redundant single function call interrupt. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at