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Re: perf: bisected sampling bug in Linux 4.11-rc1

From Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: perf: bisected sampling bug in Linux 4.11-rc1
Date 2017-07-15 16:40 +0200
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 487f05e18aa4efacee6357480f293a5afe6593b5 is the first bad commit
> > 
> > commit 487f05e18aa4efacee6357480f293a5afe6593b5
> > Author: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> > Date:   Thu Jan 19 18:43:30 2017 +0200
> > 
> >     perf/core: Optimize event rescheduling on active contexts
> 
> BTW., just to prepare for the eventuality: below is a (completely untested...) 
> revert of this commit, against recent kernels, with conflicts fixed up.
> 
> Does this fix your testcase?

Yes, applying this to current git fixes the testcase and doesn't seem to 
break anything else.


Although there is a separate issue also introduced in 4.11-rc1 that still 
fails a different testcase.  I'm in the middle of bisecting that one and 
probably won't have the result of the bisect until Monday.

Vince

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perf: bisected sampling bug in Linux 4.11-rc1 Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> - 2017-07-14 20:10 +0200
  Re: perf: bisected sampling bug in Linux 4.11-rc1 Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> - 2017-07-14 20:30 +0200
  Re: perf: bisected sampling bug in Linux 4.11-rc1 Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2017-07-14 22:10 +0200
    Re: perf: bisected sampling bug in Linux 4.11-rc1 Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> - 2017-07-14 22:20 +0200
  Re: perf: bisected sampling bug in Linux 4.11-rc1 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2017-07-15 13:10 +0200
    Re: perf: bisected sampling bug in Linux 4.11-rc1 Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> - 2017-07-15 16:40 +0200
      Re: perf: bisected sampling bug in Linux 4.11-rc1 Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> - 2017-07-16 05:10 +0200

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