9956552 cpu #6, nmi #32344, skip_nmi #32341, handled = 1, time = 1940073224 cpu #6, nmi #32345, skip_nmi #32341, handled = 1, time = 1940485677 cpu #6, nmi #32346, skip_nmi #32347, handled = 2, time = 1941947772 cpu #6, nmi #32347, skip_nmi #32347, handled = 1, time = 1941949818 cpu #6, nmi #32348, skip_nmi #32347, handled = 0, time = 1941951591 Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 00 on CPU 6. Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? Dazed and confused, but trying to continue Deltas: nmi #32334 340186 nmi #32335 1327704 nmi #32336 1819 <<<< back-to-back nmi [1] nmi #32337 85961 nmi #32338 284507 nmi #32339 1578809 nmi #32340 217616 nmi #32341 1798 <<<< back-to-back nmi [2] nmi #32342 240913 nmi #32343 1512809 nmi #32344 116672 nmi #32345 412453 nmi #32346 1462095 <<<< 1st nmi (standard) handling 2 counters nmi #32347 2046 <<<< 2nd nmi (back-to-back) handling one counter nmi #32348 1773 <<<< 3rd nmi (back-to-back) handling no counter! [3] For back-to-back nmi detection there are the following rules: The PMU nmi handler was handling more than one counter and no counter was handled in the subsequent nmi (see [1] and [2] above). There is another case if there are two subsequent back-to-back nmis [3]. The 2nd is detected as back-to-back because the first handled more than one counter. If the second handles one counter and the 3rd handles nothing, we drop the 3rd nmi because it could be a back-to-back nmi. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra [ renamed nmi variable to pmu_nmi to avoid clash with .nmi in entry.S ] Signed-off-by: Don Zickus Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: ying.huang@intel.com Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com Cc: eranian@google.com LKML-Reference: <1283454469-1909-3-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar _—]­Ÿ/x