Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:55:28 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot: Further compress CPUs bootup message
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 02:20:20PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > [    0.314494] smpboot: Booting Node   0, Processors  #   1[    0.333365] NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.
> >  #   2 #   3 #   4 #   5 OK
> > [    0.398473] smpboot: Booting Node   1, Processors  #   6 #   7 #   8 #   9 #  10 #  11 OK
> > [    0.565198] smpboot: Booting Node   0, Processors  #  12 #  13 #  14 #  15 #  16 #  17 OK
> > [    0.654558] smpboot: Booting Node   1, Processors  #  18 #  19 #  20 #  21 #  22 #  23 OK
> > [    0.743527] Brought up 24 CPUs
> 
> operator error here.. this was from the (old) fallback kernel; the new
> one didn't actually boot.

FWIW, this will happen, regardless of what we do:

[    0.089350] x86: Booting SMP configuration:
[    0.104355] NMI watchdog: enabled on all CPUs, permanently consumes one hw-PMU counter.
[    0.089427] .... node  #0, CPUs:      #1 #2 #3
[    0.136301] x86: Booted up 1 node, 4 CPUs
[    0.136442] smpboot: Total of 4 processors activated (23146.32 BogoMIPS)

as the NMI watchdog thing keeps shouting in-between. Do we still need it
- I mean, how can I really use the info that NMI watchdog is consuming a
perf counter? I mean I know how, but do people actually use that info or
everyone knows already? :-)

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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