This is new for me, but I suspect it is more related to the new Haswell CPU I have than necessarily the 3.12 perf pull request.
Regardless, nothing bad happened, but my dmesg has this in it: Unexpected number of pebs records 10 when I was profiling some git workloads. Full trace appended. Linus --- perf samples too long (2749 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000 perf samples too long (5200 > 5000), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 25000 .. many seconds pass .. ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3270 at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c:1003 intel_pmu_drain_pebs_hsw+0x91/0xa0() Unexpected number of pebs records 10 Modules linked in: fuse ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_conntrack ip6table_filter nf_conntrack ip6_tables snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm e1000e serio_raw snd_page_alloc snd_timer ptp lpc_ich snd i2c_i801 pps_core mfd_core soundcore uinput nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpc binfmt_misc hid_logitech_dj i915 i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper drm i2c_core video CPU: 1 PID: 3270 Comm: git Not tainted 3.11.0-07749-ge7d33bb5ea82-dirty #4 Hardware name: /DH87RL, BIOS RLH8710H.86A.0317.2013.0426.1724 04/26/2013 0000000000000009 ffff88041fa46ca0 ffffffff815fc637 ffff88041fa46ce8 ffff88041fa46cd8 ffffffff81051e78 ffff88040f42f000 ffff88040f42f780 ffff88041fa46ef8 ffffffff81c15860 0000000000000002 ffff88041fa46d38 Call Trace: <NMI> [<ffffffff815fc637>] dump_stack+0x45/0x56 [<ffffffff81051e78>] warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0xa0 [<ffffffff81051ee7>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x47/0x50 [<ffffffff8101b051>] intel_pmu_drain_pebs_hsw+0x91/0xa0 [<ffffffff8101c5d0>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x210/0x390 [<ffffffff81604deb>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x2b/0x50 [<ffffffff81604670>] nmi_handle.isra.3+0x80/0x180 [<ffffffff81604840>] do_nmi+0xd0/0x310 [<ffffffff81603d37>] end_repeat_nmi+0x1e/0x2e <<EOE>> [<ffffffff810167df>] perf_events_lapic_init+0x2f/0x40 [<ffffffff81016a50>] x86_pmu_enable+0x260/0x310 [<ffffffff81111d87>] perf_pmu_enable+0x27/0x30 [<ffffffff81112140>] perf_event_context_sched_in+0x80/0xc0 [<ffffffff811127eb>] __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x16b/0x180 [<ffffffff8107c300>] finish_task_switch+0x70/0xa0 [<ffffffff81600f48>] __schedule+0x368/0x7c0 [<ffffffff816013c4>] schedule+0x24/0x70 [<ffffffff816038a4>] retint_careful+0xd/0x21 ---[ end trace 52dad7a9d8d96b5f ]--- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/