Re: [GIT PULL] perf fixes

[Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Linus Torvalds
>> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Could be related to suspend/resume. But were you running perf across
>>>> that resume/suspend cycle?
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>> In most cases I was running a perf record before and after (but not
>>> *while* suspending)
>>>
>>> In at least one other crash, I didn't run perf before at all, so the
>>> first time I used perf was after the resume.
>>>
>>> So in no cases did I actually have any perf stuff active over the
>>> suspend itself.
>>>
>> Ok, simpler test case then.
>>
>>>> Let's see if we can reproduce the problem on the same ChromeBook you
>>>> have. Don't have one myself.
>>>
>>> I don't imagine it should be about chromebook per se, because afaik
>>> all of pmu suspend/resume is done by the kernel, no firmware involved.
>>>
>>> So I'd assume it should happen with any IvyBridge.
>>>
>> Will try on a desktop IvyBridge too.
>
> Ok, it happens on my IVB desktop too, so I can investigate...

It's not specific to IVB either, it hangs on my Nehalem desktop as well.