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From: Cyrill Gorcunov on 7 Aug 2010 17:50
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:09:17PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> In case if last active performance counter is not overflowed at
> moment of NMI being triggered by another counter, the irq statistics
> may miss an update stage. As a more serious consequence -- apic quirk
> may not be triggered so apic lvt entry stay masked.
>
> Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin(a)intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov(a)openvz.org>
> CC: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin(a)intel.com>
> CC: Stephane Eranian <eranian(a)google.com>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl>
> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu>
> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com>
> ---

Ping? Frederic, perhaps you'll pick it up?

-- Cyrill
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